Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh
Toss: Sunrisers Hyderabad and decided to field first.
Winner: Sunrisers Hyderabad, with 8 wickets remaining.
Man of the Match: S Dhawan, for his splendid inning of 71 runs.
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So here we are back again with the second qualifying match of Champions Trophy. Toss was won by the Sunrisers Hyderabad and they decided to field first. Batting first Kandurata Maroons started well but their first wicket fell at just 25 runs, and then came in KC Sangakkara. As he is a very experienced player, he started playing some good shots to push the score of Maroons to 33, when Jayasuria got out. HDRL Thirimanne who came in also started playing well and both of them scored 61 and 54 runs respectively. Thirimanne got out scoring 54 runs, but Sangakkara remained not out. Most economical bowler from the Sunrisers side is Ishant Sharma as he took 2 wickets and gave 20 runs in 4 over.
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Now Sunrisers had to chase a score of 168 runs. The start of Sunrisers made them guaranteed winner of this match as R Patel and S Dhawana scored 52 and 71 runs each and made the huge score of 168 runs to be scored in 18.3 over. None of the bowlers from the maroons side did well. S Dhawan was declared man of the march for his 71 runs knock from 67 balls that included 11 fours.