• Courageous batting helps IPL newcomers to register a sensational five-wicket win

Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan hit two sixes off the final two balls to pull off a sensational chase for Gujarat Titans after Sunrisers Hyderabad pace sensation Umran Malik took his first IPL five-for yesterday.
Needing 196 for victory, Gujarat slipped to 140-5 but Rashid (31) joined Rahul Tewatia (40) to turn the match on its head and the pair hit four sixes between them to score the 22 runs required from the final over and win by five wickets in Mumbai.
Tewatia hit the first six followed by a single and Rashid then smacked three sixes in four balls off South African left-arm quick Marco Jansen.
The left-right batting pair of Tewatia and Rashid put on an unbeaten stand of 59 off 24 deliveries to fire Gujarat, one of the two new teams, to the top of the 10-team IPL table.
“Happy to deliver against them, just trying to play my game and have that belief in my batting which I’m working on from the last two years,” said Rashid.
“When it was 22 left. I just told Tewatia that we have given 25 in the last over with one of our best bowlers bowling and I told him that we needed to have that belief and not panic, anything is possible.”
The batting fireworks overshadowed Malik’s 5-25 as the 22-year-old bowler from the Jammu region in Indian-administered Kashmir clocked speeds of over 150 km/h (93 mph).
The menacing bowler with a thick mop of hair and a silver chain around his neck got the key wickets of skipper Hardik Pandya (10), Wriddhiman Saha (68), and David Miller (17) to rattle Gujarat.
He ended Saha’s stinging 38-ball knock with an unplayable yorker at nearly 153 km/h to raise the roof at the Wankhede Stadium. Malik, who was named man of the match despite ending on the losing side, beat David Miller with another pacy delivery as the ball crashed into the stumps and then bowled Abhinav Manohar for a duck.
“He is a fast bowler,” former England batter Kevin Pietersen screamed on commentary. “He is going to rattle stumps for a long time.”
South Africa’s Aiden Markram hit 56 and Shashank Singh clubbed 25 off only six deliveries to power Hyderabad to 195 for six after being sent into bat first.
Markram and Abhishek Sharma put on 96 for the third wicket to set the platform for the total that was boost by Singh’s last-over blitz of three sixes. Pace bowler Mohammed Shami took three wickets.

BRIEF SCORES
Sunrisers Hyderabad 195/6 (Abhishek Sharma 65; Mohamed Shami 3 for 39) lost to Gujarat Titans 199/5 (Wriddhiman Saha 68; Umran Malik 5 for  25) by 5 wickets

England advertise for separate coaches
The England cricket board (ECB) look set to return to a split coaching set-up after inviting applications for two new head coaches. The appointment of the new coaches is the latest step in a shake-up of the ECB’s management structure, with former England batter Rob Key being appointed as the managing director of the country’s men’s cricket team earlier this month.
Key’s appointment came two days after Joe Root stepped down as Test captain following dispiriting tours of Australia and the Caribbean, overseeing only one victory in England’s last 17 Tests.
The last time England had separate coaches for red-ball and white-ball cricket was between 2012 and 2014, when Andy Flower was Test coach while Ashley Giles led the ODI squad.