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XtraTime Web Desk: Sunrisers Hyderabad faced Royal Challengers Bangalore in the third match of Indian Premier League (IPL 2020). Winning the toss, Sunrisers captain David Warner send the Virat Kohli and team to bat first and because of Devdut Padikkal and AB De Viliers, Bangalore gave a respected target of 164 runs in 20 overs.

Even after a decent start and 71 runs partnership between Manish Pandey and Jonny Bairstow, Hyderabad couldn't do it and lost the match by 10 runs. Yuzvendra Chahal bowled brilliantly and took 3 wickets and gave away just 18 runs in his 4 overs. He is the one who changed the game for Bangalore in the 15th over after taking Bairstow and Vijay Shankar's wicket in back to back deliveries.

As expected, Chahal won the Man Of The Match award. In the post match conference he said, “When I bowled my first over, I realized I need to bowl stump-to-stump line and backed myself. At one point they were batting well and I was trying to bowl loopy ones and wide of the reach which helped in building pressure. When I bowled to Pandey, I was trying to outside off-stump and with Bairstow I bowled little fuller and when Vijay came Virat and AB told me to go for a googly and it worked. I put some mud on my hands to make sure there is no dew and really brilliant.”

The winning captain Virat Kohli was quite happy with his team's performance. He said, “It's amazing and last year we were on the other side of the results. We kept our composure tonight.”

Virat Kohli also praised Chahal for his amazing performance tonight. He said, “Yuzi came in and changed the game for us. Tonight he showed that if you have skill, you can get purchase on any wicket and the way he came in and bowled attacking lines and he was the one in my opinion who changed the game.”

The losing Captain David Warner was surprised by the fashion he was out today. “I can't remember the last time I was out like that. There's four things that happened in this game that I have never seen before.”

The captain also appreciated Mitch Marsh's efforts and said, “A lot of courage for Mitchell to go out there and try. Hopefully it isn't too bad, it was quite painful for him, so fingers crossed.”

“We had the run chase in control and we knew that we had to go after their bowlers in the end. Probably the last over of Chahal was the turning point out there. We have to go back to the drawing board; we obviously can't fix what happened today but we have to go back and work hard before our next game in Abu Dhabi.” This is what Warner said when he asked about the performance from his team.

Warner was asked about the young talents who played their maiden IPL game today, to which he said, “There are talking points but the guys know what they have to do. Exciting times for Indian cricket and I can't wait to see what the young players produce.”