Sunrisers Hyderabad lifting IPL 2016 trophy

Sunrisers Hyderabad are the IPL 2016 champions

David Warner
David Warner
Sunrisers Hyderabad lifting IPL 2016 trophy
Sunrisers Hyderabad lifting IPL 2016 trophy

Indian Premier League, Final: Royal Challengers, M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore v Sunrisers Hyderabad at Bangalore, May 29, 2016

Sunrisers Hyderabad 208/7 (20/20 ov) DA Warner 69 off 38, 8 four, 3 fours, Yuvraj Sinbgh 38 off 23, 4 fours, 2 sixes, BCJ Cutting 39 off 15, 3 fours, 4 sixes, CJ Jordan 45-3, YS Chahal 35-1, S ARavind 30-2.

RCB 200/7 (20/20 ov) CH Gayle 76 off 38, 4 fours, 8 sixes, V Kohli 54 off 35, 5  fours, 2 sixes, Sachin Baby 18 off 10, 1 four, 1 six,   BB Sran 41-1, BCJ Cutting 31-1, Bipul Sharma 17-1, Mustafizur Rahman 37-1.

Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 8 runs.

David Warner jumps into the hands of coach Moody as Sunrisers are the 2016 IPL champions. Sunrisers won the toss and opted to bat. David Warner said “We feel our strength is bowling and their strength is chasing”.

David Warner’s 38 ball 69 and Ben Cutting’s unbeaten 15-ball 39, helped them post 208 for 7, which proved too much for Royal Challengers. Chris Gayle 76 off 38, four fours, eight sixes, and Virat Kohli 54 off 35, 5 fours and 2 sixes, accounted for 114 in 10.3 overs to propel the chase. Sunriser’s applied the brakes and choked RCB chase after Gayle’s wicket to pip the hosts to win by eight runs and clinch their maiden IPL title at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Virat Kohli scored most runs 973 his best 113 followed by David Warner 848, his best 93 not out, AB de Villiers 687, 129 not out. In IPl 2016, T20 , 17, 963 runs were scored, 10, 356 runs were scored in boundaries, 638 sixes, 1632 fours, 110 fifties, 414 catches and 652 wickets were taken, B Kumar of Sunrisers took 23 wickets giving away 490 runs.