Hyderabad won victory over Kolkata

Hyderabad, May 1:Sunrisers opening batsman David Warner striked a marauding 126 runs off 59 deliveries as Hyderabad.David Warner scored a 48-ball 69 in the final.Warner was also the second highest run-scorer in the 2016 IPL with a tally of 848 runs.The Hyderabad captain unleashed mayhem as he milked 10 fours and eight sixes to power his team to 209/3 in 20 overs. Kolkata could only score 161/7, as Hyderabad remained behind them in the points table at the third spot with 13 points.Warner said that the victory was due to a team effort.

Warner and Shikhar Dhawan forged a 139-run partnership for the opening wicket as the former produced an astonishing show of power hitting. He also became the highest run-scorer of the tournament so far with a tally of 459 runs.Yusuf Pathan hardly impressed as he scored a run-a-ball 12 before being caught by Kaul off leg-spinner Rashid Khan, with the visitors at 130/5 in 16 overs.

After winning the toss and opting to bowl, Kolkata captain Gautam Gambhir applied a strategy of completing the six overs of Powerplay with six bowlers. But none of them could stop Warner, who completed his 50 in only 20 deliveries. At the end of six overs, Hyderabad rocketted off to 79/0, with Warner at 62 not out off 25 balls.
One delightful stroke that signified Warner's belligerence was a switch-hit to Sunil Narine as the ball went for six over the short third man.

The next over saw Warner complete a double with a flick towards midwicket off a Umesh Yadav delivery as he registered his century in just 43 deliveries.

They reached 52/2 in seven overs when rain halted the match for around 45 minutes. After the rain-enforced break, Robbin Uthappa and Manish Pandey (39 off 29) provided resistance, putting up a third-wicket 82-run stand in 8.3 overs. They took the attack to the opposition with some lusty blows.

But seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar cut short Pandey's stay when the batsman gave a return catch to the bowler, with Kolkata at 90/3 in 11 overs.Uthappa, meanwhile completed his fifty. But he soon was removed by Siraj, with Warner taking a catch at long-off to halt Kolkata's progress.