SRH vs DC Super Over: Warner’s errors, Williamson’s agony & Pant’s unorthodoxy

Bairstow in shock why the management didn’t sent him to open the super over as we speak pic.twitter.com/qBFslPIb8n

— King 🤴🇮🇹 (@Pran33Th__18) April 25, 2021

Some, like Nick Compton, questioned why Bairstow was not in the middle for SRH even as Warner struggled to time the ball on a slow Chepauk pitch. Bairstow had scored a brisk 18-ball 38 in the SRH innings a little earlier.

Why is Bairstow not batting in this super over for @SunRisers !! Best top order batter in the world at the moment #IPL2021

— Nick Compton (@thecompdog) April 25, 2021

Axar Patel, who was returning to the DC playing XI, bowled a tight over. Williamson found the boundary once, Warner could not.

Warner was then caught out on a short run off the last ball of the SRH Super Over as he failed to take his bat completely across the crease.

The turning point of the Super Over Short run of David Warner.. pic.twitter.com/lK4qm2HfQo

— Its.hypnosis_ ✨ (@Introvertone_) April 25, 2021

Rashid Khan also did a commendable job in the DC Super Over, before Pant found the boundary against him with a reverse scoop. It would be the only time the ball reached the fence in this over too, as the match went down to the last ball of the Super Over.

Pant and Shikhar Dhawan then ran a single off the last ball to seal the 2 points.

Kane Williamson reacts after SRH’s Super Over defeat (Screenshot)

“I am glad that David didn’t complete that run, we got the edge over that and we ended up winning the game,” Shikhar Dhawan said at the post-match presentation ceremony.