Hyderabad rout Bangalore

Bangldesh's bowling sensation Mustafizur Rahman took one wicket to help restrict Royal Challengers Bangalore to 179 runs as his team Sunrisers Hyderabad comfortably won the match by 15 runs at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad yesterday.

David Warner showed his duck against Rising Pune Supergiants was just a one-off blip in his otherwise red-hot form. Much like he had clobbered the Royal Challengers Bangalore attack with a 25-ball 58 in their first face-off this season, Warner hammered the visitors' attack to all parts of the ground during his 50-ball 92, his fifth fifty in seven matches, to lead Sunrisers Hyderabad to the top half of the table with a 15-run win.

Warner used his force, timing and gigantic bat to pick boundaries at regular intervals. He found an able partner in Kane Williamson, who scored 50 off 38, for a second-wicket stand of 124 runs in 12.1 overs that charged them to 194 for 5, their highest total of the season. 

The Royal Challengers chase showed promising signs initially and the hosts helped them further by dropping AB de Villiers twice, but Sunrisers' quicks and the mounting pressure of a rising asking rate was too much for the visitors.

After Kohli opted to bowl and Shikhar Dhawan handed a return catch to Kane Richardson, Warner changed gears after a watchful start once Kohli brought Harshal Patel, Warner showcased his power-hitting and collected 16 runs from the sixth over to launch Sunrisers' run rate into an orbit from which Royal Challengers could not pull it back.

Without Chris Gayle, who was not picked despite being available, Royal Challengers' chase was dependent largely on Kohli and de Villiers. KL Rahul got the innings kick-started with flowing boundaries on the off side using sheer timing and placement. However, Mustafizur handed them the first blow in his first over when Kohli crunched him straight to backward point, for 14.

In the day's other match Dehli Daredevils produced a thorough all-round performance to notch up their fourth win by beating Kolkata Knight Riders by 27 runs.

SCORES IN BRIEF
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD: 194 for 5 in 20 overs (Warner 92, Williamson 50, Henriques 31; Richardson 2-45)
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE: 179 for 6 in 20 overs (Rahul 51, AB de Villiers 47; Nehra 1-32, Mustafizur 1-34)
Result: Hyderabad won by 15 runs
Man-of the-match: David Warner