VIDEO | ‘Instantaneous’ KL Rahul’s review enough to send back overconfident David Warner

Chasing 127, Sunrisers Hyderabad came out with an ‘intent,’ that seemingly looked enough to take them past Punjab’s new-ball bowling unit, comprising Mohammed Shami and Arshdeep Singh. Neither did Shami nor did Arshdeep look close to getting them out, as the duo of Warner-Bairstow came out attacking, throwing the kitchen sink off every delivery, so much to put KXIP skipper KL Rahul aback. Immediately, the skipper threw the ball to his trusted allies - his leg-spinners. 

While Murugan Ashwin made life tough for the openers, he couldn’t quite get one past them in his first over, as Bairstow got a streaky boundary. In the very next over, the Englishman got a lot adventurous, as he smashed two boundaries off the first two balls to get the side off to a great start in the meagre run-chase, as they reached 52 after the first six overs. 

Against the inexperienced Ravi Bishnoi, the left-handed opener got off to the best start, scoring a boundary off the very first delivery. However, the leg-spinner and KL Rahul had the last laugh, as an adventurous Warner ‘reverse swept’ the wrong line to edge one to the wicketkeeper. Rahul immediately went up for a review and in the end, was rightly awarded for his decision making, sending Warner back.

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