SRH were for long labelled as a bowling heavy side, but today they have shown that their batting can come to their rescue on days when their bowling unit fails to deliver.
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Rishabh Pant’s exuberant hundred had meant that the SRH bowling unit had been taken to the cleaners, something that doesn’t often happen.
Both Rashid Khan and Bhuvi had no answers to Pant’s clean striking and at the half way mark it seemed like DD had enough on the board to get over the line.
However, Dhawan and Williamson rose to the occasion to bail SRH out, stringing together a wonderful partnership to take SRH home.
Both Dhawan and Williamson never let the run-rate get out of hand as they kept rotating the strike and getting those important boundaries.
Twitter couldn’t believe that Pant’s efforts went in vain, as the DD bowling unit seemed spineless in the 2nd innings.
Check out the tweets:
SRH – anything you do, we Kane do better #DDvSRH
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) May 10, 2018
.@SunRisers is the team for me to win this @IPL 11.
Their bowling is brilliant (today was a off day fellas) and this chase under pressure on a difficult pitch with @SDhawan25 and Kane Williamson is a master class in how to construct a chase.#IPL11 #IPL2018 #DDvSRH #SRH— Jatin Sharma (@jatincricket) May 10, 2018
Rishabh Pant’s 100 is the 50th individual century in #IPL cricket!
1st: Brendon McCullum for KKR on 18 April 2008
25th: Shane Watson for RR on 22 April 2013
50th: Rishabh Pant for DD on 10 May #IPL2018#DDvSRH— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) May 10, 2018
Looking into the Cricket dictionary for the name of that shot of Rishabh Pant over short third man! Just WOW! 26 runs off the last over of Bhuvi!👏👏 #DDvSRH #WhistlePodu pic.twitter.com/aibjnUuvTq
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) May 10, 2018
Rishabh Pant is the most fearless Indian batsman since Virender Sehwag. #DDvSRH
— SAGAR (@sagarcasm) May 10, 2018
Congratulations @SunRisers on becoming the first team to qualify for @IPL playoffs this year. Great batting @RishabPant777 , @SDhawan25 & #KaneWilliamson #DDvSRH
— Rajeev Shukla (@ShuklaRajiv) May 10, 2018
Simply wow @RishabPant777 you beauty ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💪💪💪💪 @IPL @DelhiDaredevils vs @SunRisers all wicket keepers r on fire 🔥 this ipl
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) May 10, 2018
Maxwell’s situation is a bit like that singer who kept getting ‘Once more’ from the audience till he sang in tune.
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) May 10, 2018
#SRH has the best bowling unit this #IPL and with this chase, they’ve showed that their batting is also peaking at the right time. It’s only fair that the best team has become the first team to qualify. Well done. #DDvSRH #IPL
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) May 10, 2018
The last spot on the points table to Delhi Daredevils every year.
The real wooden spoon legends. #DD #IPL #DDvSRH pic.twitter.com/J91p19itDl
— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS) May 10, 2018
This is how Daredevils fans checking points table. #DDvSRH pic.twitter.com/wO6sWjksI7
— Swapnil Suryawanshi (@swapnil_bs) May 10, 2018
I wonder how Gautam gambhir sitting out and watching the proceedings from the dug-out has helped the case. #DDvSRH
— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) May 10, 2018
I wonder how Gautam gambhir sitting out and watching the proceedings from the dug-out has helped the case. #DDvSRH
— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) May 10, 2018
Centuries in losing cause in IPL:
128* PANT
117* Symonds
115* Saha
104* Amla
104 Amla
101 Watson
101 S Smith
100* Tendulkar
100* Kohli
100 PathanRishabh Pant is part of a list which includes some of the greatest batsmen – Tendulkar, Kohli, Amla, Steven Smith.
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) May 10, 2018
PANTastic innings! Still can’t get my eyes off this guy. Nothing short of outstanding. Keep it up, @RishabPant777 . #DDvSRH #IPL2018 pic.twitter.com/ItIWk1xmmG
— surya77 (@surya_14kumar) May 10, 2018
Rishabh Pant rightly hogged the limelight with a brilliant knock but it was a clinical performance from @SDhawan25 and Kane who not only went after the big shots but ran brilliantly between the wickets. Very satisfying win and looking to continue with the momentum #DDvSRH
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) May 10, 2018
Excellent chase from the @SunRisers Delhi really struggled to bowl dot balls and Kane and Shikhar did it effortlessly in the end. After the bowlers rescuing the batsman in the earlier matches, it was good to see the SRH batsman doing well on an off day for the bowlers #DDvSRH
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) May 10, 2018
