Harshal Patel: Pretty happy with this. I felt we were better with the execution barring a few overs. Whatever we played in the bowlers meeting, we were able to execute. Helps when you have 290 on the board. The coaches don’t believe too much in talking, the initial chat was how to be defensive and how to compliment the batting line-up. There’s a fine line between being defensive and being aggressive, it depends on the context of the game. There will be times when we need to go hard on the stumps, need to bowl conventionally. But when you have 270-280 on the board, our job gets easier since we have to just bowl defensive. No ground is easy for bowlers in the IPL, the mindset of batters have changed as well. So you need to be on top of your game and execute well.
Riyan Parag: It was tough, just like I expected. Credit to SRH but we could have executed better. Will have a sit down and chat about today. (On choosing to bowl first) I feel collectively we took that decision, it was the right decision but it was about executing better. You’d mind if 280 is on the board, in the toss I said 200 was what I expected but 220-240 would have been good to take. Quite a few positives, the way Dhruv and Sanju batted was brilliant. And then Hettie and Shivam as well later on. Tushar bowled really well, Sandy paaji did well. A win or a less, we take the learnings and then we forget.
In reply, RR had no choice but to come out all guns blazing.
19:28 Local Time, 13:58 GMT, 19:28 IST: SRH kick off their campaign with an authoritative win.
19.6
Harshal Patel to Jofra Archer, 1 run,
Jofra Archer, right handed bat, comes to the crease
19.5
Harshal Patel to Hetmyer, out Caught by Abhinav Manohar!! Once again, Cummins and Abhinav Manohar converge. Hetmyer c Abhinav Manohar b Harshal Patel 42(23) [4s-1 6s-4]
Harshal Patel to Hetmyer, THATS OUT!! Caught!!
19.4
Harshal Patel to Hetmyer, SIX, straight down the ground
19.4
Harshal Patel to Hetmyer, wide, slow and short, too wide outside off and that's been ignored
19.3
Harshal Patel to Shubham Dubey, 1 run, to sweeper cover
19.2
Harshal Patel to Hetmyer, 1 run, dropped! 125.7kph, Hetmyer pulls against this short delivery and the ball lobs up off the bottom part of the bat. Cummins (extra cover) and Manohar (long-off) converge,
19.1
Harshal Patel to Hetmyer, no run, 120.3kph, pace-off delivery on a short length, Hetmyer pulls and connects with thin air
Harshal Patel [3.0-0-24-1] is back into the attack
18.6
Cummins to Hetmyer, 1 run, slow and short
18.5
Cummins to Hetmyer, 2 runs, to mid-wicket
18.4
Cummins to Hetmyer, SIX, full and angling in, right in the slot, Hetmyer clears his front leg and clubs it over deep midwicket
18.4
Cummins to Hetmyer, wide
18.3
Cummins to Hetmyer, 2 runs,
18.3
Cummins to Shubham Dubey, no ball, 1 run, slower ball on a shortish length, puilled to deep midwicket