April 22, 2017

VIVO IPL 2017 season 10 24th encounter between Rising Pune Supergiants vs Sunrisers Hyderabad at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune on April 22, 2017 at 4:00 pm. Putting into bat first by Pune, Hyderabad managed to score 176 runs with MC Henriques superb 55* runs of 28 balls. Pune in reply with good opening start with RA Tripathi (59) and MS Dhoni's excellent 61 of 34 balls chase the given target on last ball of the match with boundry and won the match by 6 wickets. MS dhoni daclared man of the match for his match winning 61* runs.

Rising Pune Supergiants won the toss and opted to firld first. Putting into bat first by Pune, Sunrisers got slow but steady start with their regular opening pair S Dhawan and skipper DA Warner. Both played slow cricket and added 55 runs for 1st wicket before S Dhawan got out scoring 30 runs. Previous match man of the match KS Willimson came in middle and lost his wicket in hurry scoring 21 of 14 balls. MC Henriques joined with skipper and played once again superb inning of 55* runs and put Hyderabad on good total of 176 runs in 20 overs. DA Warner also played well and contributed 43 runs.

Following target of 177 runs, Pune lost AM Rahane early scoring just 2 runs. But another opening batsman Rahul Tripathi took the charge in hand and played superb inning of 59 runs of 41 balls before unfortunately got run out by Rashid Khan of his own bowling. Skipper SPD Smith got good start but left the field contributing 27 runs. MS Dhoni and BA Stokes came in middle for remaining chase. MS Dhoni as alway in style finished the match on the last balls with boundry and won the match by 6 wickets in last ball finished game.

Player of the match - MS Dhoni (RPS)

Points - Pune Supergiants 2, Sunrisers Hyderabad 0.