De Villiers gives three catches in a match

David Warner had not yet started his barrage of boundaries when Virat Kohli brought on Harshal Patel to bowl the last over of the Powerplay. Sunrisers Hyderabad were 33 for 1 and Kohli would have hoped Harshal would keep the run rate under seven. He angled the first ball into Warner who chased it and got a thick edge that flew to the third-man boundary. Kedar Jadhav leapt with his right hand in the air but the ball bounced just over him. Harshal raised his hands to express disappointment with the fielding effort, but then saw he had overstepped. Warner clobbered the free-hit for a straight six and unleashed a four off the third legal ball of the over to frustrate the bowler further. Harshal leaked 16 runs and it gave Sunrisers the impetus they needed.

Warner had raced to 86 off 47 balls when he got strike on the third ball of the 16th over. He had already driven, punched, pulled and ramped during his innings. And this time he tried a switch-hit against chinaman bowler Tabraiz Shamsi. He missed and notched up a rare dot ball; his previous dot ball had come in the 11th over, also against Shamsi. On the next ball, Warner went back to his basics and slogged a straighter delivery from Shamsi to the leg side for six. He cleared his front foot to pack some power into the shot and, even though he didn't middle it, his muscle and bat thickness were enough to send it beyond the boundary.

Warner had propelled his side to 194 and Mustafizur Rahman got rid of Kohli in the Powerplay. Much of the groundwork had been done for Sunrisers. But they dented their own chances when AB de Villiers handed a high but simple catch off Barinder Sran straight to fine leg and Ashish Nehra didn't even get a hand to it. De Villiers didn't give up. Four overs later, he handed a catch to extra cover where Deepak Hooda moved to his right to attempt a slightly tougher chance but the ball popped out of his hands. Sunrisers finally cashed in the third time, in the 15th over, when de Villiers swung hard but could not send the ball flying past a diving Kane Williamson at long-on.

Only a few days ago, a chant familiar at any international cricket stadium in India was heard again when the Feroz Shah Kotla crowd cheered for Sachin Tendulkar and sang 'Happy Birthday' for him. Delhi Daredevils had hosted Mumbai Indians on April 23 and the Delhi crowd wished Tendulkar a day ahead of his 43rd birthday. On Saturday evening in Hyderabad, the chant 'Sachinnnnn, Sachinnnnnn' was heard again even though the match was between Sunrisers and Royal Challengers. The Hyderabad crowd was actually cheering for Sachin Baby, the 27-year-old batsman from Kerala, who came out to bat at No. 5 for Royal Challengers. The batsman was new, but the chant was several years old.