Sakib and Malinga Make the Pitch Irrelevant as SRH Thrash Delhi
The surface didn’t matter. Sunrisers Hyderabad made sure of that.
Sakib Hussain and Eshan Malinga were the difference in SRH’s dominant win over Delhi Capitals at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium. Malinga took four wickets. Sakib controlled the middle overs with his off-spin. Between them, they strangled a DC batting lineup that never got going — regardless of what the pitch offered.
And while the bowlers did the damage, Abhishek Sharma went and scored a century up top — 100 off 42 balls, his ninth T20 hundred — to help SRH post 242/2. That’s three wins in a row for Sunrisers. They’re looking like the tournament’s form side, and their bowling depth is why