The game went right to the wire but the Lions’ 126-6 proved some way short as Sunrisers coasted home thanks to the cool head of Shikhar Dhawan.

Large parts of the pre-match talk were of Yuvraj Singh who was returning to the Hyderabad side after injury.

He caught the attention of the majority of people in the crowd and on TV.

The Gujarat Lions struggled for large parts of their innings until Finch entered the crease at 25-3, the Australian setting about posting as competitive total as possible.

He also had a slice of luck along the way thanks to one of his Aussie teammates.

Things would have been a whole lot worse for Gujarat had Warner held on.

It was still a very modest total from Gujarat, it looking increasingly so as Warner and Dhawan got their team off to a flyer.

But as Warner and Kane Williamson departed the onus fell on Dhawan to take control of the match and he did just that despite barely facing a ball for the first ten overs of the match.