Twitter Reactions: Warner's lightning knock takes SRH through to the final

The Gujarat Lions took on the Sunrisers Hyderabad in a humdinger of a contest at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in the second qualifier. Captain David Warner won the toss as SRH elected to field first. While SRH had New Zealander Trent Boult coming in for the injured Mustafizur Rahman, Gujarat Lions has Shivil Kaushik in place of Shabad Jakati.

Batting first, Gujarat were reduced to 19/2 but Brendon McCullum held things together along with Dinesh Karthik. Later on a brilliant half century by Finch followed by a quickfire cameo from Bravo ensured that Lions had a decent total to defend.

They ended up scoring 162/7 in their quota of 20 overs. Ben Cutting and Bhuvneshwar Kumar were the pick of the bowlers for Sunrisers Hyderabad as they got 2 wickets apiece.

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On the other hand, SRH lost Shikhar Dhawan early. While Gujarat bowlers kept picking wickets on one end, David Warner with his exploits with the bat made sure that the momentum remained with SRH. He led from the front with a magnificent 93 not out from just 58 balls as Hyderabad successfully chased the target. Bipul Sharma also played an amazing cameo of 27 (11)*.

In the end, Sunrisers Hyderabad won the game by 4 wickets with 4 balls to spare. For GL, Kaushik and Dwayne Bravo got a couple of wickets each. Warner deservingly was announced the man of the match. SRH entered the IPL finals for the first time as they play RCB on Sunday.

Twitter kept everyone entertained with some splendid tweets throughout the SRH-GL qualifier game. Right from lauding Finch to trolling Sran, right from lauding Warner to trolling Gujarat bowlers, here are some of the Twitter reactions that took place during the course of the game:

Two men leading their teams from the front throughout the tournament.
Warner for SRH, Kohli for RCB,#GameOverChe #RCBvsSRH

— Sameer Allana (@HitmanCricket) May 27, 2016

So…a south Indian derby it shall be on Sunday. Well played @SunRisers #IPL #GLvSRH

— Anand Subramaniam (@28anand) May 27, 2016

Cricket is my religion and Bipul Sharma is my GOD ?

— Tarun ♞ (@tarun_0707) May 27, 2016

https://twitter.com/holdingwilley/status/736253167608856576

Raina is literally singing in mind – DJ wala Bravo zara wicket dilado.

— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) May 27, 2016

https://twitter.com/holdingwilley/status/736249411336994817

Sidhu's commentary is the worst thing that has happened to Set Max after Sooryavansham! #GLvSRH

— Burning Dezire. (@iam_zaid) May 27, 2016

Shivil Kaushik bowling to Warner is actually Shivil War. #IPL #SrhVsGL

— ️Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) May 27, 2016

SRH need an AB de Villiers' kind of innings from David Warner

— Shubh AggarWall (@shubh_chintak) May 27, 2016

Next season DD will gun for Hooda, add to their pool of underachieving young Indian cricketers. (that RD needs to rehabilitate) #GLvSRH

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) May 27, 2016

Hooda Going. Bravo Dancing. Cutting Coming. #GLvSRH

— Jalandar (@scriblng) May 27, 2016

Looks like it is either @davidwarner31 or nothing for Hyderabad now…

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) May 27, 2016

Once Suresh Raina didn't congratulate bowler for wicket, ICC imposed ban for 2 matches on Suresh Raina.

— Sunil- The Cricketer (@1sInto2s) May 27, 2016

Pic 1: Gujarat Lions First 10 Overs

Pic 2: Gujarat Lions Last 10 Overs pic.twitter.com/EK6cfj8kq8

— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) May 27, 2016

A guy called Eklavya got out on the 5th ball.
Even the original Eklavya had his 5th take him out.#SRHvsGL

— Sorabh Pant (@hankypanty) May 27, 2016

Boult may not play in the final, hell, SRH may not play in the final.#GLvSRH

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) May 27, 2016

Finch and Dwayne Smith batting at No.5 & 6 has got to be one of the more bizzare batting orders this season. Main bhi tinkerman. #GLvSRH

— Cricket Fantasy (@Cricket_Fantasy) May 27, 2016

Both teams want to lose this game. #SRHvGL

— Sameer Allana (@HitmanCricket) May 27, 2016

Finch is pinching Hyderabad where it hurts most: or should that be punching?

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) May 27, 2016

I didn't know Gujarat Lions were being coached by Thisara Perera.

— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) May 27, 2016

if the SRH cheerleaders are weeping tonight, sran could be to blame #GLvSRH

— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) May 27, 2016