IPL 2018, SRH vs RCB: 5 talking points

#4 Kane Williamson leads SRH fightback

Williamson played a captain's knock to help Sunrisers' Hyderabad recover from the loss of early wickets

With the RCB bowlers backed up Virat Kohli's impressive captaincy with their disciplined approach, SRH were struggling to get going. To add to that, they also lost both their hard-hitting opening batsmen - Shikhar Dhawan and Alex Hales - within the powerplay overs itself with just 38 runs on the board.

This called for the hosts to consolidate and play sensibly to keep wickets in hand for the death overs and skipper Kane Williamson showed them the way with a superb knock.

With little room to free his arms, Williamson was forced to rely on singles and doubles at the start forging a crucial partnership for the side along with Shakib al Hasan.

However, Williamson upped the ante towards the end with a couple of big sixes to complete his half-century off just 34 balls.