Sunrisers Hyderabad bowlers took the team to a terrific victory by 85 runs against Mumbai Indians at Visakhapatnam's Dr YSR ACA-VDCA Stadium on Sunday. With this win, the team shot up to the top of the score table.

Having won their respective previous games, both sides fielded unchanged teams. Mumbai skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bowl first on a dry-looking surface that promised runs in both innings. Hyderabad captain David Warner said he would have bowled too but, along with fellow opener Shikhar Dhawan, went on to negate any disadvantage the team was at by getting them off to a flyer.

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The pair smacked 51 runs in the first six overs and looked set for a huge partnership, before Warner holed out to long-off for 48 from 33 balls with the score at 85/1 in the 10th over. Kane Williamson fell after scoring just two runs and, all of a sudden, Mumbai were back in the game. With six overs to play, Hyderabad were at 102/2, when Yuvraj Singh decided to shake off his Twenty20 blues.

The 34-year-old played some innovative shots along with Dhawan and helped the team score 75 runs off the last six overs. There was a time when it looked like Hyderabad would struggle to cross 160, but Yuvraj and Warner ensured they put on a competitive 177/3 on the board. Dhawan remained unbeaten on 82 off just 57 balls, while Yuvraj was dismissed hit-wicket in the last over of the innings for a 23-ball 39.

Sharma and Parthiv Patel opened for the Hyderabad team, though Patel was soon dismissed, in the very first over itself. Sharma followed him soon after getting bowled out by Ashish Nehra, who went on a spree, bagging wickets back to back and sealing the game for his team. After six overs, the Mumbai team was at 32, having lost 5 wickets. From there, it continued to get worse for the team as Kieron Pollard was dismissed after making only 11 runs. By the middle of the innings, MI had lost 7 wickets and made 54 runs. The match was wrapped up by the 16th over of the innings. The Mumbai team made 92 runs and lost the match by a margin of 85 runs.