Twitter Reactions: Karun Nair shines as DD secure last ball win to keep playoffs hope alive

Sunrisers Hyderabad took on the Delhi Daredevils in a thrilling encounter at Raipur. Captain Zaheer Khan won the toss as DD elected to field first. While SRH had Eoin Morgan and Brainder Sran coming in for them, DD brought in Pawan Negi, Jayant Yadav and Carlos Brathwaite.

Batting first, David Warner again began the SRH innings in an emphatic fashion as he smashed a magnificent 73 runs from 56 balls. While he kept scoring runs, wickets kept falling at the other end. The other batsmen got starts but couldn’t accelerate.

Some late charge by Bhuvanesh Kumar and Naman Ojha took the Sunrisers to 158/7 in their quota of 20 overs. Brathwaite was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 2/27 and also effected a brilliant run out.

How did the match pan out? – IPL 9, Match 52 Review: Karun Nair leads DD to a thrilling win over SRH

On the other hand, DD lost Quinton de Kock early. From there on, both youngsters Karun Nair and Rishab Pant led their batting recovery. SRH were quite sloppy in the field and that probably cost them the game. At the end, it boiled to 6 off 2 balls, but Nair smashed consecutive boundaries to secure a last ball win for the Delhi Daredevils.

DD’s 6-wicket victory has kept them afloat in the tournament and their next game would be a virtual quarter-final. Mustafizur Rahman and Sran were exceptional but the others were a touch expensive. Karun Nair deservingly won the man of the match.

Twitter kept everyone entertained with some splendid tweets throughout the SRH-DD game. Right from lauding Warner to trolling DD changes, right from lauding Nair to trolling SRH fielding, here are some of the Twitter reactions that took place during the course of the game

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

Very well Constructed innings from Karun Nair situations like this will make him even better player…

— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) May 20, 2016

Thank you Warner for letting that go through and dropping Karun earlier. You have shown your loyalty for being an ex-Daredevil.

— Shubh AggarWall (@shubh_chintak) May 20, 2016

For Warner it was a case of so Nair and yet so far#DDvSRH

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) May 20, 2016

Didi & DD won.

— Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) May 20, 2016

very worried for dravid's cap #DDvSRH

— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) May 20, 2016

https://twitter.com/holdingwilley/status/733721858101501952

May be exaggerating, but only Mustafizur comes close to Wasim Akram in this generation. Such a treat to watch him bowl ! ? #SRH

— Rofl Gandhi (@RoflGandhi_) May 20, 2016

Warner 73(56), Nair 74*(56), that close.#DDvSRH

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) May 20, 2016

VS: What a catch! Sran also realised he caught it after he saw it on TV! #MatchPeCharcha #DDvSRH

— Amazon.in (@amazonIN) May 20, 2016

Oh, Brathwaite played that like a little girl, cute, dropped off the pads, single in the 30 yard circle#DDvSRH

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) May 20, 2016

That's an easy equation for @TridentSportsX #vivoipl #SRHvDD

— Daren Sammy (@darrensammy88) May 20, 2016

Hey Carlos, what are these 4s you are hitting, you only normally deal in sixers… #ipl

— Innocent Bystander (@InnoBystander) May 20, 2016

sundroppers hyderabad #DDvSRH

— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) May 20, 2016

Those runs to Bhuvi and Ojha could cost DD. Or could not. #DDvSRH

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) May 20, 2016

This is ideally Nair's territory. No other franchise would have given him so many chances at such a good position. Pay back, FFS.

— Alagappan Vijaykumar (@IndianMourinho) May 20, 2016

Only reason Negi is playing so that Delhi Daredevils are answerable to the income tax department.

— Sameer Allana (@HitmanCricket) May 20, 2016

15 of Braithwaites 25 balls (including one wide) were short balls. #DDvSRH #IPL2016

— The Cricket Prof. (@CricProf) May 20, 2016

32 50+ scores for Warner – most by any player in the IPL. #DDvSRH

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) May 20, 2016

https://twitter.com/holdingwilley/status/733682538359578624

The only way anyone's gonna stop Warner is with whiskey.#DDvSRH

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) May 20, 2016

One moment of brilliance can win a game; Delhi have had 2 getting Dhawan & Hooda run out.Can't mess up now! #DDvSRH #IPreferLess @inshorts

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) May 20, 2016

DD have made a total of 33 changes in 13 matches in this IPL.
4 changes 4 times
3 changes 3 times
2 changes 3 times
1 change 2 times

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) May 20, 2016