Karun Nair's unbeaten 83* in last-ball thriller keeps Daredevils in the contest

Delhi Daredevils 161 for 4 (Nair 83*, Pant 32, Sran 2-34) won the match against SRH 158 for 7 (Warner 73, Brathwaite 2-27) by six wickets

What a match it was ! Karun Nair showed his batting skills by hitting 83* in 59 balls that he faced  and helped Delhi Daredavils to win the crucial match against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Raipur and keep their playoffs hopes bright. Now they must win their final match against RCB in Raipur on coming Sunday. With Daredevils requiring six off two deliveries, Nair, who experienced walked directly into bat at No. 3, muscled successive restrictions off Bhuvneshwar Kumar to accomplish a win which could haven’t been possible had Sunrisers fielded much better than they have. Nair was blessed to make it through a caught-behind charm on 23 in the ninth over, with Daredevils requiring 105 off 69. David Warner then deposit a sitter when the batsman was on 51. As it proved, those two occasions had a significant bearing on the outcome and Sunrisers, with 16 points, may yet have to win their final league match against KKR in Kolkata to lighten the qualifiers hope. While Rishabh Pant was the aggressor in the 73-run second-wicket stand, Nair was pleased to farm reach and play himself in prior to the stroke of good luck with the caught-behind charm brought about an alteration in mindset. By right time Pant was go out for 32, courtesy Bhuvneshwar's immediate hit from profound cover, Nair acquired turned gears. It supposed Warner's wonderfully made 56-ball 73 was the second-best.

The game started as a fight of wits. Sunrisers were watchful upfront against Zaheer Khan after being submitted to bat, however the pressure developed at one end premiered by offspinner Jayant Nathan and Yadav Coulter-Nile, who leaked goes. Sunrisers motored to 42 without damage in five overs, prior to the brakes were applied through two run-outs.

 Shikhar Dhawan, definately not his fluent best, was the first ever to go. Carlos Brathwaite, who changed the damaged Chris Morris, halted a drive by diving to his departed and then hurled a chuck back again at the striker's end with Dhawan well in short supply of the crease. Four balls later, Amit Mishra's half-stop off his own bowling led to dilemma between Warner and Deepak Hooda, and a primary strike at the bowler's end found Hooda brief. With the report at 48 for 2 in the 7th over, the necessity of the hour was loan consolidation.

Yuvraj Singh hung around for 10 deliveries, one which was directed screaming behind point off a brutal slice, before Brathwaite possessed him chop one onto the stumps, the two-paced characteristics of the pitch surfacing as the ball retained low to have the inside-edge. As wickets tumbled even, Warner was an image of supreme self-confidence, flaying pacers with flat-batted pulls and slaps through the off area.

His technique resistant to the spinners - Mishra and Yadav - was evenly effective as he used the depth of the crease to make space and bring his underlying part hands into play. After the off area field up opened up, he held carving limitations to make batting look easy ridiculously. Warner raised his half-century off 40 balls and his 32nd IPL fifty helped notch up an archive for some fifty-plus scores by the batsman in the tournament.

Moises Henriques supported him well, who took the singles well, and a 13-run over appeared to suggest that Sunrisers were prepared to switch to strike. However, an effort going to with the spin towards profound midwicket off JP Duminy in the 14th over led to Henriques' wicket, and concluded a sprightly 39-run stand.

Eoin Morgan's wicket drained more momentum and it had taken an enterprising collaboration between Naman Ojha and Bhuvneshwar Kumar - the couple added 26 off 15 balls within the last three overs - to use them near the 160-make.

Daredevils lost Quinton de Kock early on, but Nair and Pant placed tempo with the requesting rate through tactful strike-rotation and the strange boundary. From swatting away full tosses apart, Nair's use of the sweep shot to negate Karn Sharma's legspin was impressive.

With Daredevils requiring 52 off 30, Sunrisers possessed a ray of wish in both potential overs from Mustafizur Rahman. When Duminy, deposit on 17 by Bhuvneshwar, holed out to Warner from the first ball bowled by Barinder Sran in the 17th over, the overall game was widely open. But Nair muscled two sixes in the to allay concerns of a meltdown.

Mustafizur's tight previous over - he offered away five goes - still left Daredevils requiring 11 off of the previous six balls, but Nair had not been to be refused as his third half-century in an absolute cause this year stored Daredevils alive.