• Markram in the runs again, Jansen punished

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    Aiden Markram hit a rapid half-century as the Sunrisers Hyderabad suffered a last-ball defeat by the Gujarat Titans on Wednesday.

    The Proteas batsman made 56 off 40 balls, including two fours and three sixes, to help the Sunrisers post 195-6.

    However, it was a night to forget for Proteas fast bowler Marco Jansen (0-63), who was smashed for four sixes in the final over of the match.

    Needing 196 for victory, Gujarat slipped to 140-5 but Rashid Khan (31* off 11) joined Rahul Tewatia (40* off 21) to turn the match on its head and secure a five-wicket win in Mumbai.

    Tewatia hit the first six off Jansen followed by a single and Rashid then smacked three sixes in four balls.

    The left-right batting pair of Tewatia and Rashid put on an unbeaten stand of 59 off 24 deliveries to fire Gujarat, one of the two new teams, to the top of the 10-team IPL table.

    “Happy to deliver against them, just trying to play my game and have that belief in my batting which I’m working on from the last two years,” said Rashid.

    “When it was 22 left, I just told Tewatia that we have given 25 in the last over with one of our best bowlers bowling and I told him that we needed to have that belief and not panic, anything is possible.”

    The batting fireworks overshadowed Umran Malik’s 5-25 as the 22-year-old bowler from the Jammu region in Indian-administered Kashmir clocked speeds of over 150km/h.

    The menacing bowler, with a thick mop of hair and a silver chain around his neck, got the key wickets of skipper Hardik Pandya (10), Wriddhiman Saha (68) and David Miller (17) to rattle Gujarat.

    He ended Saha’s stinging 38-ball knock with an unplayable yorker at nearly 153km/h to raise the roof at the Wankhede Stadium.

    Malik, who was named Man of the Match despite ending on the losing side, beat Miller with another pacy delivery as the ball crashed into the stumps and then bowled Abhinav Manohar for a duck.

    “He is a fast bowler,” former England batsman Kevin Pietersen screamed on commentary. “He is going to rattle stumps for a long time.”

    Skipper Kane Williamson said: “He’s sort of been bowling beautifully really and making a difference, but it was only a matter of time before he would have a day like this.”

    Earlier, Markram and Abhishek Sharma put on 96 for the third Hyderabad wicket to set the platform for the total that was boosted by Shashank Singh’s last-over blitz of three sixes.

    Pace bowler Mohammed Shami took three wickets.

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    Simon Borchardt