Rahane fifty shapes Supergiants' seven-wicket win
ESPNcricinfo staff
05-May-2016

Ashok Dinda struck early for Rising Pune Supergiants, dismissing Rishabh Pant for 2 • BCCI
Scott Boland then removed Sanju Samson for 20 in the sixth over•BCCI
Karun Nair made a fluent 32...•BCCI
...before he sliced a Rajat Bhatia legroller to sweeper cover. The seam-bowling allrounder would finish with figures of 2 for 22•BCCI
JP Duminy and Sam Billings lifted their team with a 45-run partnership for the fourth wicket•BCCI
The stand ended when Billings mistimed a switch-hit to long-off•BCCI
Carlos Brathwaite then slammed three sixes during his 8-ball 20•BCCI
Brathwaite and Duminy fell off successive balls, but Pawan Negi's cameo took Daredevils to 162 for 7•BCCI
IPL debutant Usman Khawaja gave Supergiants' chase a brisk start•BCCI
He benefited from reprieves on 8,9,22, and 27•BCCI
Khawaja failed to cash in and was stumped by Amit Mishra's googly in the ninth over, for 30 off 27 balls•BCCI
Ajinkya Rahane, though, kept Supergiants ticking with pushes and dabs•BCCI
Saurabh Tiwary struggled for timing but hung on to add 45 for the second wicket with Rahane•BCCI
Captain MS Dhoni promoted himself to No.4 and slammed back-to-back boundaries off Mohammed Shami before holing out for 27•AFP
Rahane finished the chase with a flicked four and stayed unbeaten on 63 off 48 balls, his fifth half-century of the season•BCCI