Sunrisers Hyderabad team, who came to bat first in the 23rd match of IPL, had a bad start but despite this they scored 182 runs on the basis of Nitish Kumar Reddy’s quick fifty.

Punjab also did not make a good start

In reply, the Punjab Kings team also seemed to be faltering and heading towards a one-sided defeat, but then Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma, the heroes of the previous match, revived the match with their explosive innings and almost made it impossible for Punjab. Brought him to the threshold of victory.

Shashank-Ashutosh had almost snatched the victory

At the end of 15.3 overs, Punjab Kings team had given 6 wickets at the score of just 114 runs and the team still needed 68 runs in 27 balls to win. Shashank Singh scored unbeaten 46 runs in 25 balls while Ashutosh Sharma almost achieved this target by scoring unbeaten 33 runs in 15 balls.

Punjab team needed 29 runs to win in the last over and in reply both the batsmen had scored 26 runs and remained just 2 runs away from victory. With this, Sunrisers Hyderabad team achieved its third win of this season and has reached fifth position in the points table.

Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 182 runs on the strength of Nitish Reddy

Earlier, Sunrisers, who came to bat after losing the toss, had scored 182 runs after losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. Punjab Kings, who came to chase Sunrisers’ target of 182 runs, could score only 180 runs after losing 6 wickets in 20 overs.

For Sunrisers Hyderabad, Nitish played a brilliant inning of 64 runs in 37 balls with the help of 4 fours and 5 sixes. After this, Travis Head scored 21, Abhishek Sharma 16, Aiden Markram 0, Tripathi 11, Heinrich Klaasen 9, Abdul Samad 25, Shahbaz Ahmed 14, Pat Cummins 3, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 6 and Jaydev Unadkat unbeaten. Contributed 6 runs.