IPL 2018 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar calls SRH’s win over DD a perfect team performance

Sunrisers Hyderabad have primarily been a bowling team and bowlers’ have come to their rescue quite often in this edition of the IPL. They have managed to restrict oppositions to low totals, which has been one of the major factors in their win. Saturday’s match against Delhi Daredevils was different though. DD were able to put on a good total of 164 on a slow track in Hyderabad and given the fact that SRH’s previous chase of 180 vs KXIP came in 2016.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who was suffering from a back injury, made his comeback in the team and gave 33 runs without taking any wicket. He pointed that SRH bowlers’ did a good job in the end by giving just 68 runs in the last 10 overs.

It was not one of the best fielding displays by the Delhi team. They dropped few catches, which included the catch of Yusuf Pathan on 0 by Vijay Shankar in the 18th over and Alex Hales on 9 by Glenn Maxwell in the second over. Both the batsmen went on score some crucial runs for their team. DD showed some good bowling skills and kept SRH batsman in check in the middle overs, which led to the match being decided in the last over. DD’s assistant coach Pravin Amre attributed drop catches as the reason for their loss. 

“It is because of our fielding we lost the match. The saying goes catches win matches and that happened today. Dropping catches hurt us today as after Hales was dropped in the powerplay they managed to get 61 in the first six overs. After Manish Pandey got out we had them under pressure. We had the opportunity but we fielded poorly. Our boys have really worked hard on their fielding. That’s where it hurts the most as the missed catches were not so difficult ones," Amre said.