Williamson leads Sunrisers to top of IPL in Warner's absence

NEW DELHI: Kane Williamson has directed Sunrisers Hyderabad to the highest point of the Indian Premier League table since the New Zealander was hoisted to skipper without outrage tained David Warner.

Williamson, the main outside skipper in this current season's release of the lucrative establishment, has guaranteed an unbeaten keep running for Hyderabad in the initial three diversions of the Twenty20 class.

The Kiwi cuts a much lower profile than Warner yet has scored 92 keeps running in the Sunrisers' three matches, incorporating a fifty in their prevail upon Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday.

Hyderabad, who won the competition in 2016, next face second-set Kings XI Punjab, who recorded their second win on Sunday floated by a brisk 63-run rush by Chris Gayle.

"Clearly decent to win three of every a column," said Williamson after the Sunrisers' win at Kolkata's Eden Gardens a week ago.

"Bowlers have executed their aptitudes extremely well, however we know each amusement is intense, so hope to keep doing that."

Williamson was a very late substitution for Warner after the prominent Australian was restricted from the IPL over the South Africa ball-altering outrage.

Australian captain Steve Smith - another first-class name for the IPL - was additionally dropped as skipper of the Rajasthan Royals.

The deceiving line, so near the IPL season dispatch, undermined to sully the billion-dollar establishment.

In any case, the stylish competition is as of now gaining its notoriety with close completes and enormous hits in unfaltering supply only half a month into the world's most famous T20 association.

"All the eight groups are making progress toward that additional "one-percenters' that can have the effect amongst winning and losing," previous South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis wrote in The Times of India daily paper.

"On numerous events in the previous ten years I have had the point that the effect between the best group and the base group in the IPL is littler than some other cricket association on the planet," said Kallis, who exhorts the Knight Riders.

Gayle was just chosen in the third round of IPL offering, grabbed by Punjab for only $314,000 in the January barters that saw new kids on the block going for more than $1 million.

Yet, the West Indian did not disillusion, crushing 63 off 33 balls in his opener for the Kings XI.

Gayle hit 7 fours and 4 sixes as Kings XI crushed Chennai Super Kings by four runs and traveled into second place on the IPL step.

"It's great to be back," the 38-year-old huge hitter said after Punjab's win.

Other champion exhibitions incorporate a 14-ball fifty - the quickest in IPL history - by Punjab opener Lokesh Rahul and some engaging thumps by Knight Riders batsman Andre Russell and England's Jason Roy for Delhi Daredevils.