Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) beat Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) by 69 runs, their biggest ever win against KXIP. SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) posted a total of 201/6 in 20 overs after winning the toss and opting to bat. SRH openers David Warner and Jonny Bairstow were the top run-scorers, scoring half-centuries. Warner was dismissed for 52 runs off 40 deliveries in an innings comprising of five boundaries and a six.
Bairstow smashed 97 runs off 55 balls, hitting seven boundaries and six sixes. Spinner Ravi Bishnoi was the pick of the bowlers for KXIP, accounting for the key dismissals of Warner and Bairstow, finishing with figures of 3/29. Nicholas Pooran (77) brought up a 17-ball 50 in the chase even as wickets fell around him, the fastest 50 of the season. Pooran kept holding one end up, until Rashid Khan (3/12) delivered the knockout blow in the 15th over. KXIP were all out for 132.
