Images from the IPL 2022 match between Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Sunrisers Hyderabad's pace sensation Umran Malik's sensational five-wicket haul went in vain as Gujarat Titans clinched a stunning five-wicket win off the last ball in a thrilling IPL 2022 match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Wednesday.
J&K pacer Umran grabbed five wickets with devastatingly quick deliveries to scythe through the Gujarat Titans top-order and almost propel Sunrisers Hyderabad to their sixth successive win.
But Rahul Tewatia (40 not out off 21 balls) and Rashid Khan (31 not out off 11) put on a match-turning partnership as Gujarat, needing 56 from the last 24 overs, knocked off the required runs, with the star from Afghanistan finishing the game with a six over fine leg off Marco Jansen.
Umran finished with incredible figures of 5/25, four of which were bowled.
Opener Abhishek Sharma and Aiden Markram struck sparkling half-centuries as Sunrisers Hyderabad posted 195 for six after being asked to bat first.
In pursuit of a stiff target, Gujarat were off to a flyer with Wriddhiman Saha (68) blazing his way to a flurry of boundaries while putting on 69 runs for the first wicket with a subdued Shubman Gill (22).
Umran got the first breakthrough after he was introduced in the eighth over, when he bowled Gill with a quick length delivery that crashed into the stumps.
Gujarat captain Hardik Pandya was also beaten for pace as he top-edged the bouncer and was caught at thirdman, who was placed very fine.
Wriddhiman Saha raced to his fifty in 28 balls with a single to long-on as he kept the runs coming from one end.
Just when Sunrisers were looking to inch ahead in the contest, Umran continued the devastation with the ball in his second spell.
The well-set Saha, who stroked 68 from 38 balls, had no answers to a 153kph yorker which beat him all ends up and uprooted the stumps.
Umran was not done yet. In his final over, he got both David Miller (17) and Abhinav Manohar (0) bowled with quick full deliveries to finish with his maiden five-wicket haul in the IPL.
Courtesy of Umran, Gujarat looked in trouble at 140/5 after 16 overs before Rashid and Tewatia swung their bats around in fine style to fashion a fine victory for Gujarat from the jaws of defeat.
Earlier, pener Abhishek Sharma and Aiden Markram struck sparkling half-centuries as Sunrisers Hyderabad posted 195 for six in their 20 overs.
Abhishek blazed away to 65 off 42 deliveries, while Markram made a 40-ball 56 during a third-wicket stand of 96 runs.
Then, Shashank Singh (25 off 6 balls) smashed Lockie Ferguson for three successive sixes to score 25 runs in the final over.
To start with, SRH were helped by Mohammed Shami's (3/39 in 4 overs) 11-run opening over in which a first-ball beauty was followed by five leg-side wides, not once but twice.
Yash Dayal too conceded 11 runs, thanks to two boundaries by Abhishek Sharma on the off side, as SRH raced to 22 for no loss in two overs.
Kane Williamson clipped Shami over square leg for his first boundary but that's all the SRH skipper could do with the bat as, three balls later, the seasoned India pacer went through the gate with a lovely seaming delivery to dismiss the Kiwi and give his team the match's first breakthrough.
Having got a life at point even before he could open his account, Rahul Tripathi smashed Shami for 6, 4, 4 before a review found that the batter was trapped in front of the wicket in an eventful fifth over, which went for 14 runs.
Unperturbed by the fall of two wickets, Abhishek collected two successive fours off Alzarri Joseph -- first he lofted over the infield and then found the gap through a packed off-side -- to help SRH score 53 runs in the six power play overs at the Wankhede Stadium.
SRH needed a partnership at that stage and the duo of Abhishek and Markram not just provided them that but also kept the scoreboard moving at a very good rate by regularly finding the boundaries.
While Markram dealt with the likes of pacers such as Alzarri, Abhishek went after Rashid Khan, hitting the Afghanistan spin ace for his third six to reach his half-century in style.
Against Rashid, Abhishek was particularly strong on the on-side, getting his three sixes over long-on and deep mid-wicket.
However, the 21-year-old's fine innings came to an end when he inside-edged a slower delivery from Alzarri in the first ball of the 16th over.
Shami came back to dismiss the big-hitting Nicholas Pooran (3) cheaply before Markram got to his fifty by pulling the bowler for a six over deep mid-wicket. Stationed in the deep, Rashid's day in the field got worse as he misjudged it
