Twitter Reactions: Sunrisers feast on Mumbai Indians in Hyderabad food palette

Brain Lara in his pitch report emphasised that the track was a batter’s haven. With no grass and a flat surface to go with, Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bowl first. Sunrisers Hyderabad might have had good Biriyani coming into bat and their batters decided to burn their calories on the MI treadmill. The only tweak here is, they made the MI bowlers run for rescue.

Travis Head started off with a bang and decided to grab the hefty part of meat out of the Hyderabad feast. His intent was evident when he jabbed the short-of-a-length delivery from debutant Kwena Maphaka to covers. If only Tim David had grabbed that catch, when Head tried to drive one off Hardik Pandya, things might have been different. With that life in his account, Head squeezed that luck to its fullest.

He unleashed absolute carnage in the city of Nawabs when Maphaka was up bowling his second over. He welcomed him with two back-to-back sixes and subsequent deliveries for boundaries. As a result, that Maphaka over saw 22 runs being scored. With Mayank Agarwal getting dismissed trying to pull one off Pandya, another death angel Abhishek Sharma joined Head in the middle. With both at the crease, Gerald Coetzee went for 23 and SRH fetched 81 runs in the powerplay itself.

Later on, it was all Abhishek Sharma’s show. The left-handed batter ruthlessly smashed veteran Piyush Chawla for three sixes in an over. And later the young Maphaka was on his radar and the Punjab batter made him leak 20 runs over. The batter became the quickest to score a half-century for SRH in 16 balls and was later dismissed by Chawla himself. His strike rate column read 273 in bold letters.

Klaasen makes sure SRH break RCB’s long held record 

The Demon God of SRH, Heinrich Klaasen joined the party and kept the rituals going as MI bowlers prayed for angel intervention. Aiden Markram and Klaasen, two of the best Proteas have ever produced, were the show stoppers amidst the electrifying amphitheatre. Klaasen was no godfather for young Protean Maphaka, and he was in no mood to spare him either. He smashed Mapahaka for a six and a four as the bowler said thank you with a sigh of relief leaking 66 runs in four overs.

The duo were up against another youngster Shams Mulani for the final over of the innings. Mulani started off with a wide and SRH at 244 eyed the age-old record held by Royal Challengers Bengaluru for the highest team total of 263 runs. With two consecutive boundaries, Klaasen made sure that the record now belonged to Orange Army and SRH made MI go searching for space suits as Earth was no longer an abode for humans to stay. A nightmare called ‘Target 278’ was in every MI player’s dream.

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