David Warner's dominant 92 leads RCB rout

David Warner showed his duck against Rising Pune Supergiants was just a one-off blip in an otherwise red-hot streak. Much like the 25-ball 58 against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their first face-off this season, Warner hammered the visitors' attack to all parts of the ground during his 50-ball 92, his fifth fifty in seven matches. That knock led Sunrisers Hyderabad to the top half of the table with a 15-run win. The sides managed to get a full 40-over game despite a delayed start by an hour due to intermittent rain.

Warner used his force, timing and gigantic bat to pick boundaries regularly. He found an able partner in Kane Williamson, who scored 50 off 38 and shared a second-wicket stand of 124 runs in 12.1 overs that charged Sunrisers to 194 for 5, their highest total of the season. The Royal Challengers chase showed promising signs initially and the hosts helped them by dropping AB de Villiers twice, but Sunrisers' quicks and the pressure of a rising asking rate were too much for the visitors.