Sangakkara-led SRH debut; Pune disappointed

SRH made their debut in this match.

PWI (Shar)made nine changes to their playing (Michs)eleven – Jesse Ryder, Clarke, Sourav Ganguly, Anustup Majumdar, Callum Ferguson, Harpreet Singh, Wayne Parnell, Ali Murtaza, and Ashish Nehra made way for Manish Pandey, Marlon Samuels, Yuvraj Singh, Ross Taylor, Abhishek Nayar, Angelo Mathews (who was leading the team, and chose to field on winning the toss), Mitchell Marsh, Rahul, and Ashok Dinda.

The first Powerplay of SRH’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 38, and lost a wicket.

Parthiv Patel, whose 18-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 19. Thirty-two balls into the match, Dinda broke the 34-run stand.

SRH scored 50 off eight overs (48 balls). PWI had conceded three extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Kumar Sangakkara, SRH’s skipper, scored 15. His 16-ball innings included a couple of boundaries. Twenty-seven balls after Patel’s dismissal, Rahul broke the 26-run stand.

Reddy, whose (Aksha)thirty-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 27. Nineteen balls later, Yuvraj broke the 12-rnu stand.

Cameron White, who faced 18 balls, scored 10. Eight balls later, he was caught by Marsh. Samuels broke the 11-run stand.

SRH scored 100 off 16.4 overs (100 balls).

Thisara Perera, whose 18-ball innings included three boundaries and the only six of the innings, scored 30. Twenty-one balls later, he was caught by Pandey. Dinda broke the 26-run stand.

Hanuma Vihari, who faced a dozen balls, scored 11. Half-a-dozen balls later, he was caught by Dinda. Needless to say, Bhuvneshwar Kumar was in seventh heaven.

Ashish Reddy, whose four-ball innings included a boundary, had a reason to be in seventh heaven – he was unbeaten, as was Dwaraka Ravi Teja, who faced four balls, scoring as many.

SRH scored 126 for the loss of half-a-dozen wickets off 20 overs.

Mathews bowled a couple of wicketless overs, conceding 16.

Yuvraj bowled a couple of overs, conceding eight. He picked up a wicket, as did Samuels, Rahul and Bhuvneshwar, who bowled four overs apiece. They conceded 34, 21, and 17, respectively.

Dinda bowled four overs, conceding 29. He picked up a couple of scalps.  

The first Powerplay of PWI’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 27, without the loss of a wicket.

Uthappa, whose 22-ball (Rob)innings included a couple of boundaries and a six, scored 24. Forty-one balls into the chase, he was caught by Parthiv. Perera broke the 36-run stand.

Samuels, whose nine-ball innings included a boundary, scored five. Ten balls later, he was caught by White. Perera broke the six-run stand.

Yuvraj, who faced five balls, scored a couple. Eight balls later, he was stumped by Parthiv. Amit Mishra, the player of the match, broke the five-run stand.

Pandey, who faced 29 balls, scored 15. Nine balls later, he was caught by White. Mishra broke the three-run stand.

PWI scored 50 off 11 overs (66 balls). SRH had conceded a couple of extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Nayar, whose 14-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 19. Twenty-seven balls after Pandey’s dismissal, he was caught by Rahul. Mishra broke the 33-run stand.

Taylor, who faced 19 balls, scored as many. Three balls later, Ashish broke the run-a-ball stand.

Mathews, whose six-ball innings included a boundary, scored eight. He was unbeaten.

The seventh-wicket pair put on eight. Although his three-ball innings included a six, Marsh had no reason to be in seventh heaven – five balls after Taylor’s dismissal, Perera ran him out.

PWI scored 100 off 17.4 overs (106 balls).

Bhuvneshwar, who faced three balls, scored as many. Dale Steyn had a reason to be in seventh heaven – he broke the 10-run stand.

The ninth-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Rahul, who faced a ball, didn’t open his account. The next ball, he was dismissed by Steyn.

The last-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Dinda, who faced a couple of balls, didn’t open his account. A couple of balls later, he was caught by White off the bowling of Steyn.

PWI, who were dismissed for 104 off 18.5 overs, lost by 22 runs.

White bowled an over, conceding a couple. He was unbeaten, as was Ishant Sharma, who bowled four overs, conceding 22.

Ashish bowled a couple of overs, conceding 21. He picked up a wicket.

Perera bowled four overs, conceding 29. He picked up a couple of wickets.

Steyn bowled 3.5 overs, conceding 11. He picked up three scalps, as did Mishra, who bowled four overs, conceding 19.