Sunrisers Hyderabad's David Warner led them to a maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) title on Sunday after the bowlers derailed Royal Challengers Bangalore's (RCB) chase to fashion an eight-run victory. Australian Warner (69) led from the front, top scoring for his side to steer Hyderabad to 208-7 after opting to bat at Bangalore's M Chinnaswamy Stadium. The Australian then returned to marshal his bowlers, who staged a stunning comeback after Chris Gayle (76) and Virat Kohli (54) had threatened to take the game away. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, the highest wicket-taker in this year's competition, conceded only nine runs in the final over to dash Bangalore's hopes of being third time lucky in the final of the Twenty20 competition.

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All in all, it was an enthralling final and everyone doffed their hat Warner’s brilliant batting and captaincy and lamented about Kohli’s luck when Pakistani cricketer Umar Akmal decided to inject some levity into the affair. Akmal took to Twitter to ‘congratulate’ David Warner but he made one big mistake. Instead of congratulating Warner for winning the IPL 2016 final, Akmal congratulated him on winning the Pakistan Super League final which earned him a lot of brickbats on Twitter.