Twitter Reactions: Wriddhiman Saha and David Warner's opening assault propels SRH to 219
After Saha-Warner blitz, Pandey also batted superbly to help the team post a mammoth total.
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The Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) faced the Delhi Capitals (DC) in a must-win game in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) on Tuesday. The Orange Army took a bold decision to drop Jonny Bairstow from the XI and included Kane Williamson in the line-up while Wriddhiman Saha also made it to the team and he opened the innings with David Warner, the birthday boy.
The new opening duo walked out to bat for SRH and made their intentions clear from the word go. It was Saha who played his shots first and from the fourth over, once he got his eyes in, Warner literally plundered the likes of Ravi Ashwin and Anrich Nortje. But what followed in the sixth over was least expected. Kagiso Rabada, the purple cap holder, was taken apart by the Australian opener churning out 22 runs off his over.
The SRH skipper celebrated his birthday with a 25-ball fifty and helped the team reach 77/0 in the powerplay, the highest score after six overs this season. Warner and Saha completed a century partnership as well with runs coming easily only for the off-spinner Ashwin to finally fox the former. DC got their first breakthrough in the 10th over of the innings but even then, the run-flow didn’t come down.
Wriddhiman Saha smashes 87 runs
Rather, the run-rate skyrocketed with Saha throwing his bat literally at everything. Not that he was lucky with edges, but the shots were of pure class from the wicket-keeper batsman. Manish Pandey was a mere spectator during the 63-run stand for the second wicket which came off just 29 balls. In the process, Saha also got to his half-century off just 26 balls and didn’t stop there.
He took toll of the other DC bowlers as well and at one stage, looked set to smash a brilliant and well deserved century. However, in quest of adding more runs quickly, Saha got out to Nortje but not before slamming 87 off just 45 deliveries. His innings was laced with 12 fours and a couple of maximums.
The platform was set for Pandey and Kane Williamson then and the former didn’t disappoint. Though runs didn’t come at an expected pace with both the set the openers getting out SRH managed to add 49 runs in off their last 33 deliveries after Saha got out. Pandey remained unbeaten on 44 off 31 balls while Williamson managed to score 11* off 10 as SRH eventually posted a mammoth total of 219 runs on the board for the loss of two wickets.
Rabada had an extremely bad day at the office and most importantly, his streak of not going wicket-less for 25 consecutive matches was broken. The South African pacer was taken away for 54 runs in his four overs while rest of the Delhi bowlers were expensive too.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Love it @Wriddhipops when someone demolishes stereotypes!!
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) October 27, 2020
Forget Pant. Saha is making KL Rahul, Samson shiver now. #DCvSRH
— Manya (@CSKian716) October 27, 2020
Wriddhiman Saha playing his best innings of the IPL since the 2014 finals. What a fluent knock, wonderful hitting throughout.
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) October 27, 2020
What. A. Knock. #Saha 👏🙇♂️ #IPL2020
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) October 27, 2020
Heartening to see @Wriddhipops play a blinder! Phenomenal knock to put @SunRisers on top! Looks like @DelhiCapitals will be chasing a stiff target. #IPL #SRHvDC
— Kris Srikkanth (@KrisSrikkanth) October 27, 2020
looks like saha is batting in the 2014 IPL final #IPL2020 #DCvSRH
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) October 27, 2020
Very smart batting by @Wriddhipops!
Improvised his shots after picking the line and length of the ball. There was no slogging at all. Played a fantastic innings which I thoroughly enjoyed watching.#SRHvDC #IPL2020
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) October 27, 2020
When you are a NO.1 wk/batsman in one format for India, playing IPL since 2008, 122 game, avg around 25 and strike rate of 132 and yet find yourself out of playing XI often, this is how you express your frustration! #saha #SRHvDC What an innings @Wriddhipops .
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh) October 27, 2020
Yahi hai right choice baby, Saha !
Amazing hitting. Enjoyed @Wriddhipops brilliant knock.#SRHvsDC
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) October 27, 2020
Wriddhimaan Saha @Wriddhipops for one dayers and T20 internationals 🤔
Yes yes yes 🤙#SRHvDC #IPL— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj) October 27, 2020
Haha..wo bhi bina warning ke 😜
Well played @davidwarner31 on birthday 🥳#SRHvDC https://t.co/fYB2UsHhLN
— Vinod Kambli (@vinodkambli349) October 27, 2020
Just heard the commentator saying that it was a curve ball…
Lagta hai market me swing ka naya naam aya hai 😋#SRHvDC
— Vinod Kambli (@vinodkambli349) October 27, 2020
David Warner's 66 is the highest score by a player on his birthday in #IPL
(Prev: 54, Michael Hussey, CSK v KKR, Chennai, 2012).#SRHvsDC #DCvSRH #IPL2020— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) October 27, 2020
Kagiso Rabada's streak of 25 consecutive IPL matches with at least one wicket comes to and end.
The last he went wicketless was against SRH in 2017. #IPL2020 #DCvSRH
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) October 27, 2020
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