SRH crumble against Punjab bowlers

NEW DELHI: Sunrisers Hyderabad had no answer to some fiery bowling by debutant Sandeep Sharma as the Punjab pacer rattled their batsmen in their IPL 6 match at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali.

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Sandeep first scalped Hanuma Vihari when the Hyderabad batsman cut a good length delivery straight to David Miller at point to bring an early end to his short-lived innings of 5 runs that included a lone boundary.

Soon after, India's under-19 star dismissed skipper Cameron White and Biplab Samantray in successive deliveries to put the Kings XI Punjab in a commanding position against the Sunrisers.

Opener Parthiv Patel and Karan Sharma then tried to hold their nerves and revive the Hyderabad innings as they put up a decent 42-run partnership, but Parvinder Awana succeeded in breaking that growing stand.

Karan (22), in his attempt to pull Awana's short delivery, got a wicked top edge that was taken comfortably by Kings XI Punjab skipper Adam Gilchrist.

Earlier, Harmeet Singh drew first blood for Punjab when on the very first delivery of his first over he was able to force Shikhar Dhawan (15) to hit the ball straight back to him to take a good catch.

Dhawan hit two boundaries in his innings after Gilchrist won the toss and decided to bowl against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

White will captain the Sunrisers instead of out of form Kumar Sangakkara. They also bring in Samantray in place of Ashish Reddy. On the other hand, David Hussey sits this one out for Punjab.

A win on Saturday for Sunrisers Hyderabad will certainly help them in their bid to make it to the knock-out stages of the competition.

Kings XI has to win their remaining four games to give themselves even a glimmer of hope for surviving in the competition but Sunrisers also can't afford a slip-up after their 77-run defeat against the title favourites.

Teams:

Kings XI Punjab: Mandeep Singh, Adam Gilchrist (Capt. & wk), Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, David Miller, Harmeet Singh, Rajagopal Sathish, Piyush Chawla, Sandeep Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Parvinder Awana.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Parthiv Patel (wk), Shikhar Dhawan, Cameron White (Capt.), Hanuma Vihari, Darren Sammy, Thisara Perera, Karan Sharma, Biplab Samantray, Amit Mishra, Dale Steyn, Ishant Sharma.

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