Warner, Sunrisers beat Bangalore in IPL final – 8-run victory

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BANGALORE, India, May 29, (AFP): Skipper David Warner’s sparkling half century helped Sunrisers Hyderabad survive a punishing blitz by Chris Gayle to edge out Royal Challengers Bangalore by eight runs in the Indian Premier League final on Sunday.

Defending 208 to claim their maiden IPL title, Hyderabad restricted Virat Kohli’s Bangalore to 200 for seven at the M Chinnaswamy stadium with Gayle’s 38-ball 76 in vain.

With 18 runs required off the final over, pace spearhead Bhuvneshwar Kumar — the leading wicket taker of the season with 23 scalps — gave away just nine as the Hyderabad players celebrated amid fireworks.

Electing to bat first, Hyderabad rode on entertaining knocks from Australia’s Warner and Ben Cutting to post a mammoth 208 for seven in 20 overs.

If Warner laid a solid foundation with his ninth fifty of this IPL season then fellow Aussie Cutting finished it off with an unbeaten 39 off 15 deliveries.

The left-handed Warner (69), who accumulated 848 runs in 17 matches, gave the team a rollicking 63-run start with opener Shikhar Dhawan (28).

Warner smashed the ball to all parts of the ground and took a special liking to Shane Watson whose opening over — the fifth of the innings — cost 18 runs.

Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who remained the team’s top wicket taker of the season with 21, got the first breakthrough in Dhawan who mistimed a slog sweep to deep square leg.

Warner, whose 38-ball knock was laced with eight fours and three sixes, kept up the run rate, forcing Kohli to juggle with his bowling options.

England medium-pacer Chris Jordan (3-45) replaced left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdullah in the 10th over to send Australia’s Moises Henriques trudging back to the dug out. Aravind got the prized scalp of Warner, who threw away his wicket while trying to slash at a widish delivery and got caught at short third man.

Veteran India batsman Yuvraj Singh took over from where Warner left, smacking 38 runs off 23 balls to keep the momentum going.

The Bangalore bowlers kept coming back to get wickets in between but could never arrest the flow of runs.

The last five overs saw the back of four Hyderabad batsmen, but Cutting’s late blitz allowed the side to bag 68 runs from the final 30 deliveries.

Scoreboard

SUNRISERS HYDERABAD

1. Warner c Abdullah b Aravind …………. 69
2. Dhawan c Jordan b Chahal …………… 28
3. Henriques c Chahal b Jordan …………. 4
4. Singh c Watson b Jordan …………….. 38
5. Hooda c Kohli b Aravind ……………….. 3
6. Cutting not out ………………………….. 39
7. Ojha run out (Watson) ………………….. 7
8. Sharma c Chahal b Jordan …………….. 5
9. Kumar not out ……………………………. 1

Extras (b1, lb 2, w 11) ……………………. 14

Total (for seven wickets, 20 overs) …… 208

Did not bat: B. Sran, M. Rahman

Fall of wickets: 1-63 (Dhawan), 2-97 (Henriques), 3-125 (Warner), 4-147 (Hooda), 5-148 (Yuvraj), 6-158 (Ojha), 7-174 (Sharma)

Bowling: Aravind 4-0-30-2, Gayle 3-0-24-0, Watson 4-0-61-0, Chahal 4-0-35-1, Abdullah 1-0-10-0, Jordan 4-0-45-3

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE

1. Gayle c Sharma b Cutting ……………. 76
2. Kohli b Sran ……………………………… 54
3. AB de Villiers c Henriques b Sharma …….. 5
4. Rahul b Cutting …………………………. 11
5. Watson c Henriques b Rahman ……… 11
6. Baby not out …………………………….. 18
7. Binny run out (Hooda/Ojha) ……………. 9
8. Jordan run out (Ojha) …………………… 3
9. Abdullah not out …………………………… 4

Extras (lb 5, w 4) ……………………………. 9

Total (for seven wickets, 20 overs) …… 200

Did not bat: S.Aravind, Y.Chahal

Fall of wickets: 1-114(Gayle), 2-140 (Kohli), 3-148 (De Villiers), 4-160 (Rahul), 5-164 (Watson), 6-180 (Binny), 7-194 (Jordan)

Bowling: Kumar 4-0-25-0, Sran 3-0-41-1, Cutting 4-0-35-2, Rahman 4-0-37-1, Henriques 3-0-40-0, Sharma 2-0-17-1

Result: Sunrisers Hyderabad won by eight runs

Toss: Sunrisers Hyderabad

Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (SRI) and Bruce Oxenford (AUS)

TV umpire: Anil Chaudhary (IND)

Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (SRI)

Reserve umpire: Abhijit Deshmukh (IND)

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