Twitter Reactions: Sunrisers Hyderabad bat RCB out of the game

Published - 01 May 2016, 01:07 IST | Updated - 01 May 2016, 01:07 IST

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The Sunrisers Hyderabad locked horns with the Royal Challengers Bangalore at Hyderabad. Both the teams were languishing in the bottom half of the table ahead of the game. While a win for the Sunrisers would have taken them to the top half, a win for RCB would have meant swapping places with Rising Pune Supergiants in the points table.

The match had a lot of excitement and surprises. The first one being Chris Gayle and Sarfaraz Khan missing out from the RCB playing eleven. Despite losing Shikhar Dhawan early, his opening partner David Warner absolutely butchered the RCB bowlers, taking a special liking for fellow Australian Kane Richardson. Kane Williamson played his first game of the tournament and scored a gritty fifty. Moises Henriques clobbered 3 maximums in his cameo of 14-ball 31. But the star of the show remained the skipper David Warner’s knock. Warner was unlucky to have missed out on the century and was dismissed on 92 off 50 balls with 9 fours and 5 sixes.

After a long time, the Orange Cap went away from Virat Kohli. Kohli needed to score 18 runs to take it back from David Warner but could manage just 14. For the first time this season, Kohli didn’t look comfortable at the crease and was dismissed by Mustafizur Rahman. Lokesh Rahul’s belligerent knock of 51 came in just 28 balls and many could not believe at the way the young man played. AB de Villiers and Sachin Baby kept the RCB fans interested for a brief while but eventually SRH won by 15 runs and RCB were handed their 4th defeat of the season.

With so much happening in just one single game, twitter went crazy about the game and came up flooding with tweets. Here are some of the best tweets from the game:

RCB has shown the demerits of spending all time/effort/money on UI while ignoring the back end. #TopHeavy #IPL
— cricBC (@cricBC) April 30, 2016

A South African giving you hope and then choking later. I have seen this before #SRHvRCB
— Shashi (@AllTimeBakchod) April 30, 2016

#SRHvRCB : Never thought a day would come when the Crowd in the stadium will be chanting Sachiiiiin.. Sachinnnn.. for Sachin Baby.
— Trendulkar (@Trendulkar) April 30, 2016

Hence Proved, IPL isn't ICL – Indian Chasing League
Both matches won by the team batted first #SRHvRCB
— Extraa Innings (@TheYorkerBall) April 30, 2016

Virat Kohli failed for the first time in this season's IPL. #SRHvRCB pic.twitter.com/NXMRNXVRa9
— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) April 30, 2016

https://twitter.com/AltCricket/status/726488286341042176

RCB is never going to win an IPL trophy. Period.
Another 4th place finish likely. They are the Arsenal of IPL #SRHvRCB
— Bonny (@bonnysbounty) April 30, 2016

We fought well..Hard luck guys @RCBTweets & well played @klrahul11 @sachinbabyy @JadhavKedar you all were awesome tonight
— Mandeep Singh (@mandeeps12) April 30, 2016

Incidentally both teams batting first won today. So…
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 30, 2016

What's wrong with Rahul, why is he behaving like Kohli, someone please get him out #SRHvRCB
— Mo Mo (@LumzanMo) April 30, 2016

RCB Bowlers! pic.twitter.com/UfLOaiF1Fn
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) April 30, 2016

Class tells. Kane Williamson is back. Now, can the others provide the finishing kick to take #SRH to 200?
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) April 30, 2016

MAD innings this from Warner. That was like throwing a club on a running rhino. Well played! #IPL #SRHvRCB
— Anand Subramaniam (@28anand) April 30, 2016

https://twitter.com/imRo45_/status/726452176336248834

Meanwhile – Williamson playing such a beautiful supporting role. Started off slowly, and timing his acceleration to perfection #IPL #SRHvRCB
— Anand Subramaniam (@28anand) April 30, 2016

https://twitter.com/holdingwilley/status/726451676475842560

Mind-less piece of ? this Harshal Patel is.
And still we keep selecting him all over the years.#VivoIPL #SRHvRCB
— The Yellow Guy ?⌛ (@Maurvin_MUFC) April 30, 2016

Helicopter shot by david warner #SRHvRCB pic.twitter.com/Ipu0oimqIP
— Amar Deshmukh (@legendsachinfan) April 30, 2016

https://twitter.com/Sameerbset/status/726451423999741952

Planning To Adopt Kane RichardSon. Sending Friendship Request Is Not Enough . #SRHvRCB
— Sir Ishant Sharma (@SirIshantSharma) April 30, 2016

That's why Australia, you never drop David Warner down the order. He has to open every game. So powerful, so destructive! #IPL2016 #SRHvRCB
— Sidhant Maheshwari (@msidhant) April 30, 2016