IPL 2020: SRH keeps their playoff hopes alive as they beat RCB by five wickets

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) kept their playoff hopes alive after they beat Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by five wickets in Match 52 of the Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 in Sharjah on October 31.

Needing 121 runs to win, SRH lost David Warner in the second over. The Manish-Saha pair added 28 runs in the next two overs as SRH posted 58/1 in the powerplay.

With 34 needed to seal a win, Jason Holder walked out to bat and slammed 26* off 10 balls as SRH closed out the game with 5.5 overs to spare.

Earlier, while bowling first SRH struck twice in the powerplay as Sandeep Sharma dismissed Devdutt Padikkal in the third over and then followed it up with a big wicket of Virat Kohli in the fifth over.

Nadeem got AB de Villiers out in the 11th over after Abhishek Sharma completed the catch in the deep. RCB lost their fourth wicket in the next over as Phillipe was holed out at deep mid-wicket off Rashid Khan’s bowling.

Washington Sundar and Gurkeerat Singh Mann then pushed RCB past hundred before the former got out in the 18th over. SRH did not concede many in the last two overs and restricted RCB to 120/7.

Brief Scores: Sunrisers Hyderabad 121/5 (Wriddhiman Saha 39, Jason Holder 26*; Yuzvendra Chahal 2/19) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 120/7 (Josh Phillipe 32, AB de Villiers 24; Sandeep Sharma 2/20) by five wickets

Courtesy: www.iplt20.com