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Rahane fifty shapes Supergiants' seven-wicket win

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
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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
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