IPL 7: Shane Watson's hat-trick in vain as Sunrisers Hyderabad thrash Rajasthan Royals

Ahmedabad Sunrisers Hyderabad kept themselves in the topfour race as they crushed Rajasthan Royals by 32 runs on the back of an inspiring bowling performance in an Indian Premier League clash here todayHyderabad looked down and out after posting a modest 134 for nine but they came out all guns blazing forcing their rivals into submission with their fiery bowling led by young India paceman Bhuvneshwar Kumar 414Sunrisers Hyderabad celebrate the fall of Shane Watsons wicket PicNirav TrivediKumar provided the first breakthrough in the third ball of the RR innings and then took three wickets in the 18th over to deny the rivals any sort of comebackHis senior pace colleague Dale Steyn 233 took two wickets while Karn Sharma Moises Henriques and Irfan Pathan took a wicket apiece in a collective bowling effort to bowl out Rajasthan for 102 with one ball to spareThe result meant that Rajasthan skipper Shane Watsons superb hattrick went in vain and Hyderabad moved to fifth from seventh in the points tableIt was a pathetic batting display by Hyderabad as more than the Rajasthan bowling it was poor shot selection of the Hyderabad batsmen that let them downNone of the SRH players except skipper Shikhar Dhawan 33 applied himself as Watson 313 and Rajat Bhatia 323 shared six wickets between themThe highlight of the SRH innings was RR skipper Shane Watson becoming only the third foreigner to claim an IPL hattrick and the second in the current tournament to achieve the featIt was a split hattrick for Watson as he dismissed Dhawan in the last ball of his first over and then sent back Moises Henriques 9 and Karn Sharma 0 when he returned for his second over later in the inningsIn his last match also the burly Australian had taken three wickets in one over to trigger a KKR batting collapseApart from Dhawan Irfan Pathans aruna ball unbeaten 21 helped SRH reach at least a modest totalShane Watson in action against SRH on Thursday PICNirav TrivediDhawan who had been struggling thus far seemed to have found his touch back as he hit some sweetlytimed boundaries His cuts and drives predominantly on the offside reached the boundary ropes in jiffyHowever he could not capitalise on the stupendous start getting back to dug out in somewhat strange fashion One from Watson kept slightly low and faint edge carried the ball onto stumpsHis 20ball knock had seven boundariesIn came Lokesh Rahul 18 and he too began in tremendous fashion dispatching Dhawal Kulkarni for two boundaries but Aaron Finch 9 joined his captain in the dug out thanks to a stunning catch by Ajinkya Rahane off BhatiaThe Australian neither got the power nor the elevation in his shot and Rahane latched on to the chance diving forwardRahul squandered the good start by playing a reckless shot giving Bhatia his second wicketIt was left to newman in David Warner 6 and Naman Ojha 17 to provide impetus to the innings but the former did not help the cause of his side by departing earlyLegspinner Pravin Tambe star of Rajatshans previous match with a hattrick foxed the charging Australian lefthander with a turning ball and Sanju Samson had an easy stumping to doOjha too left his side in tatters as he was bowled by Bhatia while attempting to work the ball on the onsideWatson then piled on the SRH misery by completing his hattrick