IPL 2016, DD vs SRH as it happened: Delhi clinch last-ball thriller, courtesy Nair's fifty

Fine knock under tremendous pressure from the young guy.

Brilliant by Karun Nayar. Fine strokes & strong nerves produce among best knocks this year. Suspense about which teams in play-offs grows!

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) May 20, 2016

Warner, visibly furious, blames himself for the loss. “I dropped the catch and they went on to win.” What a cricketer. Excellent knock from him. SRH were let down by fielding, barring that Sran blinder, a couple of sitters dropped. 

In the end Nair trumped Warner’s innings and Delhi live to fight another day. Excellent game of T20 here, big ground, hard to clear, excellent contest between bat and ball. This is what people want to see.

FOUR! AND DELHI DAREDEVILS WIN A THRILLER, one of better IPL matches. Bhuvi banged it short again, but Nair anticipated this one, he pulled it beyond a diving Warner at mid-on and it goes to the fence. Warner slams the ground with his hand, he is furious at himself. What a cricketer!

DD win by 6 wickets and inch closer to playoffs. And Karun Nair deservedly hit the the winning runs, what a man of the match performance. 83 off 59, 8 fours, 3 sixes.

After 19 overs,Delhi 148/4 ( Karun Nair 74 , Sanju Samson 1)

OUT! Brathwaite departs on 10, Mustafizur finally gets a wicket on the night, and he has Barinder Sran to thank for it. Whattey catch! As good as you’ll ever see. The Fizz had his part to play as well, his off cutter got the edge off Brathwaite’s bat as he sliced at the wide delivery. The outside edge was flying to the third man boundary, but then Sran, at short third man, flew faster and plucked the ball out of the thin air. Breathtaking catch! This could win the match for SRH!

What an over from Mustafiz! A wicket and just 5 runs given in the penultimate over. He has shown his quality to tighten the screws on DD. 11 now needed off the last over.

After 18 overs,Delhi 143/3 ( Karun Nair 70 , Carlos Brathwaite 10)

The target nears further. Brathwaite gets a couple boundaries off Bhuvi to make DD’s job easier. Bhuvi goes full and wide on the very first ball, and Carlos carves a boundary at point. The second one was unfortunate for SRH. The ball hits Brathwaite and sneaks past confounded Ojha for four. 16 needed off the last two overs.

After 17 overs,Delhi 131/3 ( Karun Nair 70 , Carlos Brathwaite 1)

Nair hammers two sixes in the over, much needed maximums at the moment. Nair is playing a superb knock here. This has lifted the pressure off DD. First one was banged in short by Sran, drifting down leg. Nair pulls it hard over square leg for six. Then on the last ball of the over, Nair picks up the slower one and muscles it to mid-wicket for another six, bringing down the asking rate. 28 needed off 18 now, with Nair and big-man Brathwaite at the crease. This has definitely tilted  in Delhi’s favour.

After 16 overs,Delhi 117/2 ( Karun Nair 57 , JP Duminy 17)

Nair shuffles across his stumps and whips behind the short one from Mustafizur, beyond the reach of short fine leg for four. Mustafizur is not helped by his fielders on his last ball, another dropped catch, this time an even easier one of Duminy. Bhuvneshwar the culprit. Full and wide, Duminy lofts it and Bhuvi drops the sitter. There’s no excuse for that, even in high-school cricket.

Mustafizur brought back in to get a break. It’s business end now. Last 5 overs left. Can the Bangladeshi pacer do the trick fro SRH?

After 15 overs,Delhi 107/2 ( Karun Nair 52 , JP Duminy 13)

David Warner is human! He has dropped a sitter there. He must be so, so disappointed with that effort. Nair survives. Nair mis-timed his pull and Warner made a mess of it running in from long on. 

52 needed off 30 balls now.

After 14 overs,Delhi 103/2 ( Karun Nair 50 , JP Duminy 11)

FIFTY for Nair. Good innings this. 42 balls, 5 fours and six.

After 13 overs,Delhi 92/2 ( Karun Nair 48 , JP Duminy 2)

Hood risks a wide full toss on the off. It doesn’t pay well, Nair sends it where it deserves to be. Hammered to mid-wicket for four runs. He moves to 48. 67 runs required from 42 balls. Required RR almost kissing 10.

After 12 overs,Delhi 83/2 ( Karun Nair 41 , JP Duminy 0)

OUT! Pant is run-out on 32 after an good innings. It was a googly going down leg from Karn Sharma, Nair tucked it to deep square leg. Pant was sluggish for the second run and Bhuvi finds the stumps with an excellent direct hit. Delhi send in veteran JP Duminy. Just the man for Dlehi to take over the reins from here. Nair has continued and is now nearing his half-century.

After 9 overs,Delhi 62/1 ( Rishabh Pant 22 , Karun Nair 30)

Nair has hammered a six off Henriques. It was slow and short an pulled away for maximum over at square leg. Time Out now. Delhi have recovered since the initial de Kock dismissal. 50 partnership comes up too between Pant and Nair. Crucial innings from the two young batsmen.

After 9 overs,Delhi 62/1 ( Rishabh Pant 22 , Karun Nair 30)

Nair has hammered a six off Henriques. It was slow and short an pulled away for maximum over at square leg. Time Out now. Delhi have recovered since the initial de Kock dismissal. 50 partnership comes up too between Pant and Nair. Crucial innings from the two young batsmen.

After 6 overs,Delhi 37/1 ( Rishabh Pant 9 , Karun Nair 18)

Fine over from Mustafizur, just the one run off it. Pant ran a single off the first ball and then Nair played out five balls cautiously. 5 dots on the trot is T20 gold. Mustafiz shows why he’s so highly regarded. He mixes up a cutter, a slower one and a nippy quickie all in the space of three balls. He executes all of them perfectly. Bona fide talent.

Number 437. Jimmy Anderson is on fire and he’s swinging it like the 60s. 

Best bowling figures for Anderson at Headingley in Tests. He never took more than 3 wickets in a Test inns here before. #ENGvSL

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) May 20, 2016

He’s played him well till now, even got boundary in the 4th over. Who’ll have the last laugh though?

Rishabh Pant scored 26 runs in 13 balls off Mustafizur Rahman in the last #SRHvDD match. Can he do something similar today? #DDvSRH

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) May 20, 2016

After 5 overs,Delhi 36/1 ( Rishabh Pant 8 , Karun Nair 18)

Karun Nair takes up the hitting responsibility upon his shoulders in the Sran over. Three fours in the over. Excellent batting from the youngster. First he carves out a brilliant drive off a full and wide delivery through point. Sran then goes short and Nair was waiting for it. He pulled it in front of square. Sran goes full and wide again and Nair again finds space in the jam-packed offside field, punches a drive through deep cover. 14 runs off the over.

Number 437. Jimmy Anderson is on fire and he’s swinging it like the 60s. 

Best bowling figures for Anderson at Headingley in Tests. He never took more than 3 wickets in a Test inns here before. #ENGvSL

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) May 20, 2016

After 2 overs,Delhi 10/1 ( Rishabh Pant 1 , Karun Nair 1)

OUT! De Kock departs early again, Sran strikes. Itw as full and wide from Sran, de kock lunged at it but got an outside edge and sent it straight into the hadns of Ojha. Big wicket, the South African is dismissed for just two. Far from ideal start for Delhi in a crucial game with respect to making it to playoffs.

After 1 overs,Delhi 8/0 ( Quinton de Kock (W) 2 , Rishabh Pant 0)

Not the best of starts from Bhuvneshwar Kumar, drifts down leg and gives away 5 wides for free. That’s five runs chipped off the target for nothing. Could come back and bite SRH on their bottom if the games goes down to the wire. Bhuvi, though, recovers well. He kept the lid on de Kock with a tight line. 8 runs off the over.

Meanwhile, James Anderson has dismissed Angelo Mathews on the Day Two of the Headingly Test to claim his 435th Test wicket and has overtaken Kapil Dev (434) as the sixth highest Test wicket-taker of all time.

It’s a big ground. Have SRH done enough?

First innings scores at Raipur in #IPL games:
DD 164 (Won)
KKR 135 (Lost)
SRH 163 (Won)
CSK 119 (Lost)
SRH 158 today #DDvSRH #IPL2016

— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) May 20, 2016

After 20 overs,Hyderabad 158/7 ( Naman Ojha (W) 16 , )

OUT Bhuvaneswar Kumar is run-out the last ball Bhuvi hammers another four, off the first ball of the last over by NCN. Ths one lifted over mid-off. But SRH don’t capitalise on the first ball advantage and only make 9 from the last over. Good effort from Coulter-Nile. Bhuvi is run out too on the last ball in the hunt for a double that wasn’t. 

SRH end up at a decent total of 158/7, Both teams would be happy with their show. If only Warner had stayed on for longer, he’d have taken the score 20 off runs higher. SRH kept losing wickets periodically after the skipper departed.

After 19 overs,Hyderabad 149/6 ( Naman Ojha (W) 15 , Bhuvneshwar Kumar 5)

Ojha takes up the mantle and hits a huge six right off the first ball from Zaheer. Short and going down leg, Ojha pulls and sends the ball flying over square leg. Then Bhuvaneshwar Kumar gets in the hitting act and smashes one over mid on. 14 crucial runs from the over.