Mumbai, April 14 -- Former cricketer Irfan Pathan hailed the debutant pace duo of Praful Hinge and Sakib Hussain for their performances for Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) against Rajasthan Royals (RR), saying that the duo provided the Men in Orange with much-needed pace, variation, bounce and "extra firepower".

It was a pacers' party at Hyderabad as debutants Praful and Sakib reduced Rajasthan Royals to 9/5 and bundled them out for 159 in chase of 217 runs on Monday after an explosive 91 from Ishan Kishan propelled the hosts Sunrisers Hyderabad to 216/6. For the sake of net-run-rate, Donovan Ferreira and Ravindra Jadeja put on a century stand but the impact of two debutants was simply too much for RR to get anywhere near the target.

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