SRH vs RR | Player ratings - David Warner and Rashid Khan star in Sunrisers Hyderabad’s win against Rajasthan Royals

David Warner (8/10): Take my bow, Davy! How can you be so ruthless every time on the field and made it look so elegant. One of the classiest IPL innings had all the excitement a T20 game could offer and simultaneously taking you on a voyage of a different kind. His 69 was as good as a century if you look at it objectively.

Jonny Bairstow (6/10): Vindicated the franchise’s faith of retaining him in the playing XI ahead of Shakib al Hasan, Bairstow played a nice partner role to David Warner. However, his keeping was nowhere close to what Sreevats Goswami or Wriddhiman Saha used to provide, and he dropped a couple of catches which proved costly for the Hyderabad-based franchise.

Kane Williamson (5/10): On his return, Williamson had a set up for him, but unfortunately for him, he couldn’t do much help. With Vijay Shankar going strong on the other side, he should have been more careful on his approach considering they didn’t have the cushion of an Andre Russell down the order. 

Vijay Shankar (6/10): He got a start, and threw it away! Doesn’t it sound all very similar? Vijay Shankar needs to work on this aspect of his game if he wants to make his career a steady one. Also, the understanding of the game situation is something that he needs to be wary of as it has been evident that he is throwing away his wicket at the time of need. 

Manish Pandey (2/10): While there is so much to learn from Sunrisers’ auction strategy and how they manage their franchise, it is very confusing the way they are handling Manish Pandey in the last two seasons. Well, the timing of his arrival was not bad actually, and he didn’t have a lot of baggage either, but he failed in his pursuit. 

Yusuf Pathan (7/10): While he might not be an Andre Russell, Pathan Sr. today showed that he is not an Afridi like slogger - an image that he seems to have picked up over time - either. Today, however, he knew that there was no reason for taking any sort of risks and just play the game out. He did just that and while it was Rashid who hit the winning runs, Pathan’s contribution cannot be ignored.

Rashid Khan (8.5/10): The most impressive thing about Rashid Khan was that he never stops trying even if the chips are down and there is no hope. The wicket was not easy to score runs, but Ajinkya Rahane and Sanju Samson stuck their necks out, not letting the leg-spinner dominate them. Rashid didn’t back out though and regularly reinvented himself in the process. His batting, on the other hand, helped them comeback from a precarious position to win the game, which addded one more point to his tally.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1/10): Bhuvneshwar’s bowling was not bad, it was just that Samson was just too good. After being smashed for 24 runs in his second last over, the pacer spearhead had lost all the rhythm to end with a figure of 0/55 in four overs. It was a terrible, terrible day for him.

Shahbaz Nadeem (4/10): On his debut for Sunrisers Hyderabad, Nadeem seemed very lethal, creating few opportunities and even picking one wicket, but he conceded runs at 12 rpo which was not good in the context of the match. His wicket-to-wicket bowling was supposed to be the more potent option of restricting the run-flow, but he was not successful in doing so.

Sandeep Sharma (2/10): Another day and another failure for the Sunrisers pacer. More than anything, the game gave him a chance to introspect and analyse why he has come to such an ineffective position and how much the inability to move the ball in the air has affected his bowling? If he can realise that and make a change to control that, well, he may regain his mojo.

Siddarth Kaul (5/10): He was marginally better than the other pacers on a night where the Samson-Rahane carnage took the centrestage. One of the impressive - remember it is a relative impression factor - things about Kaul’s bowling was that he was not feeding to the batsman’s strength rather than making them struggle for runs. 

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