After a wait of two hours and 40 minutes, the Hyderabad crowd got the apt reward for their patience in form of a power-packed albeit a very short game of explosive cricket. In the end it was the visitors, Royal Challengers Bangalore, that came out trumps by six wickets (D/L) in a rain-truncated game.
Sunrisers Hyderabad had opted to bat first before rain delayed the start of the match. When David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan finally came in the middle, it rained again – this time fours and sixes. The game was truncated to 11 overs per side and the batsmen came out all guns blazing.
Dhawan departed early, in the third over, lobbing a catch to mid-on. But what transpired after that
