<div>Swashbuckling opener David Warner butchered the Royal Challengers Bangalore bowling attack with a whirlwind 50-ball 92 as Sunrisers Hyderabad posted an imposing 194 for 5 in their IPL match here today.<br /><br />Warner hit nine fours and five sixes and shared a 124-run stand for the second wicket with Kane Williamson (50) to power Hyderabad to a commanding position after they were inserted by Bangalore following a delayed start due to rain.<br /><br />Playing his first game in IPL-9 after recovering from an injury, Williamson was perfect foil to Warner in an innings where he blasted seven boundaries in 38 balls.<br /><br />Australian allrounder Moises Henriques then provided the late charge with a 14-ball 31 laced with three sixes and a boundary.<br /><br />For Bangalore, Kane Richardson picked two wickets, while Shane Watson (1/33) and Tabraiz Shamsi (1/39) snapped one each at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.<br /><br />Earlier, opening the innings Shikhar Dhawan (11) blasted a couple of fours off Watson and Parvez Rasool before becoming a victim of Richardson in the fourth over. Looking to work a ball across the line he ended up giving a catch to the bowler.<br /><br />However, Warner continued his rampaging form as he cracked a couple of boundaries of Richardson in the first five overs before picking up 16 runs off Harshal Patel which included two fours and a six.<br /><br />Varon Aaron also bled 11 runs each in the ninth and 13th overs as Warner and Williamson clobbered him for a couple of fours.<br /><br />Warner exploded in the 15th over when he took Richardson to the cleaners, cracking two sixes and a four to amass 19 runs and also bring up his 100-run partnership off 65 balls with Williamson for the second wicket.<br /><br />It was Tabraiz Shamsi who ended Warner's innings when he had him caught at long-off by AB de Villiers when the Australian looked to clear the ropes again to trigger a celebration.<br /><br />Williamson completed a deserving fifty in the third ball of the 17th over but he was dismissed by Watson a ball later when the New Zealand skipper tried to play a short ball over the infield and ended up giving a faint nick to wicket-keeper Lokesh Rahul.<br /><br />In the next over, Henriques blasted two sixes after Richardson had dismissed newman Naman Ojha who miscued a shot and ended up giving a simple catch to de Villiers at long-on.<br /><br />Henriques smashed a four and six in the next over as well to amass 14 runs to take Hyderabad close to 200-mark.</div>
<div>Swashbuckling opener David Warner butchered the Royal Challengers Bangalore bowling attack with a whirlwind 50-ball 92 as Sunrisers Hyderabad posted an imposing 194 for 5 in their IPL match here today.<br /><br />Warner hit nine fours and five sixes and shared a 124-run stand for the second wicket with Kane Williamson (50) to power Hyderabad to a commanding position after they were inserted by Bangalore following a delayed start due to rain.<br /><br />Playing his first game in IPL-9 after recovering from an injury, Williamson was perfect foil to Warner in an innings where he blasted seven boundaries in 38 balls.<br /><br />Australian allrounder Moises Henriques then provided the late charge with a 14-ball 31 laced with three sixes and a boundary.<br /><br />For Bangalore, Kane Richardson picked two wickets, while Shane Watson (1/33) and Tabraiz Shamsi (1/39) snapped one each at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.<br /><br />Earlier, opening the innings Shikhar Dhawan (11) blasted a couple of fours off Watson and Parvez Rasool before becoming a victim of Richardson in the fourth over. Looking to work a ball across the line he ended up giving a catch to the bowler.<br /><br />However, Warner continued his rampaging form as he cracked a couple of boundaries of Richardson in the first five overs before picking up 16 runs off Harshal Patel which included two fours and a six.<br /><br />Varon Aaron also bled 11 runs each in the ninth and 13th overs as Warner and Williamson clobbered him for a couple of fours.<br /><br />Warner exploded in the 15th over when he took Richardson to the cleaners, cracking two sixes and a four to amass 19 runs and also bring up his 100-run partnership off 65 balls with Williamson for the second wicket.<br /><br />It was Tabraiz Shamsi who ended Warner's innings when he had him caught at long-off by AB de Villiers when the Australian looked to clear the ropes again to trigger a celebration.<br /><br />Williamson completed a deserving fifty in the third ball of the 17th over but he was dismissed by Watson a ball later when the New Zealand skipper tried to play a short ball over the infield and ended up giving a faint nick to wicket-keeper Lokesh Rahul.<br /><br />In the next over, Henriques blasted two sixes after Richardson had dismissed newman Naman Ojha who miscued a shot and ended up giving a simple catch to de Villiers at long-on.<br /><br />Henriques smashed a four and six in the next over as well to amass 14 runs to take Hyderabad close to 200-mark.</div>