Pat Cummins bowled Jonny Bairstow for a duck and took a brilliant catch to dismiss Sam Curran as Sunrisers Hyderabad won the match against Punjab Kings by two runs.
Pat Cummins 's Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Punjab Kings by two runs, holding off a thrilling finish from Punjab's Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma.
Australia and Sunrisers captain Pat Cummins proved a key figure, dismissing Punjab's two English batters as the visitors won the Indian Premier League match by two runs. Settling the Kings' innings after three wickets fell in the first five overs, Curran tried to smash T Natarajan across the line, but sliced the left-armer towards mid-on where Cummins took a brilliant catch, jumping backwards with the flight and pouching the ball high above his head to dismiss Curran for 29 off 22.That seemed game over but Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma added an unbeaten 66 off 27 balls for the seventh wicket to take it to the wire.
Put in to bat, Travis Head should have been dismissed first ball, but the umpire did not notice the Australian had feathered Kagiso Rabada to wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma and Bairstow, at slip, was unable to persuade captain Shikhar Dhawan to review.ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that’s making headlines.
"He was awesome," Cummins said of the player of the match, who also took the last wicket of the match.Sports content to make you think... or allow you not to. A newsletter delivered each Friday.
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