Eight of the 11 England players who were part of the now-postponed Indian Premier League, including Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow, returned home on Wednesday.
Bairstow has been in good form but his efforts couldn't translate into a win for SRH as they lost the first three matches.
Asked to bowl first, Sunrisers Hyderabad's pace-spin duo of Khaleel (3/21) and Abhishek Sharma (2/24) did bulk of the damage to bundle out Punjab Kings for a below-par 120 in 19.4 overs.
The New Zealand skipper would have been a perfect fit for SRH's middle-order hence solving their long-standing issue pertaining to that portion of the batting lineup.
Jonny Bairstow, who hammered his 11th ODI century, to lead his team to a remarkable chase of 337 runs in the second One-day International on Friday acknowledged India skipper Virat Kohli for praising his batting.
Bairstow followed up 94 from 66 balls in the first match with 124 from 112 as England plundered 20 sixes to make the stiff chase a complete mismatch.
Gavaskar had said that Bairstow looked "uninterested" after a soft dismissal off Ravichandran Ashwin in the second innings of the second Test in Chennai.
In sensational form, Bairstow followed up his 94 in the first ODI to hit his 11th century and he has only Joe Root (16), skipper Eoin Morgan (13) and Marcus Trescothick (12) ahead of him
England did not throw it away like the opening game and capitalised on a flying start provided by Bairstow (124 off 112) and Jason Roy (55 off 52) to gun down the target in just 43.3 overs with six wickets in hand.
With the partnership, the pair also joined Australia's Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden in an elusive list becoming only the second pair in ODI cricket to score three consecutive century stands against India
Bairstow, who is currently involved in the three-match ODI series against India, will turn up for Sunrisers Hyderabad when the IPL gets underway on April 9.
England's opening pair of Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy scored 135 runs in 14.2 overs in reply to India's 317 for five.
Umpire Nitin Menon had to intervene to cool off the situation in the first T20I between India and England.
Ravichandran Ashwin took two wickets in as many balls in his very first over of the innings, removing Zak Crawley and Jonny Bairstow.
The 31-year-old wicket-keeper admitted that it will be difficult for him and other players, especially the ones with only the white-ball contract, to turn down the upcoming edition of Indian Premier League.
After winning the first Test, England were handed a 317-run defeat in the second as India drew level in the four-match series
The first two Tests of the four-match series are to be played in Chennai, before the series moves to Ahmedabad.
Bairstow, Curran and Wood were rested by the national selectors for the first two Tests beginning in Chennai on February 5, a decision which was criticised by Michael Vaughan and Kevin Pietersen.
Jonny Bairstow scored an unbeaten 86 off just 48 deliveries to secure a five-wicket win for England over South Africa in the 1st T20I.
The 31-year-old has represented England in every format of the game, having made his Test debut in 2012
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