Hyderabad put up an all-round display to beat Mohali by a narrow margin of six runs in their IPL fixture at Nagpur.
Irfan Pathan hit a quick half-century (60) before Symonds caught him off Jaskaran Singh.
Rohit Sharma claimed Mohali's sixth wicket in Ravi Bopara as Hyderabad bowlers kept dealing the rivals regular blows.
RP Singh took the seventh one as he packed off Piyush Chawla, with Pragyan Ojha taking the catch.
Former Mohali skipper Yuvraj Singh's poor show with the bat continued as Chaminda Vaas dismissed him at a meagre score of four runs. Herschelle Gibbs made no mistake in collecting the ball to get rid of Yuvraj.
Mahela Jayawardene also failed to impress as he contributed 14 runs before losing his stumps to a Symonds delivery.
Pragyan Ojha accounted for the fifth Hyderabad wicket in Adrian Barath.
Mohali started their 171-run chase on a low note as they lost two quick wickets in Manvinder Bisla and Kumar Sangakkara.
While Bisla was run out, Sangakkara departed without even opening his account as Vaas disturbed his timber.
After getting a good start from skipper Adam Gilchrist, Hyderabad kept losing wickets at regular intervals and put up 170/7 on board.
Andrew Symonds became the fifth Hyderabad wicket to fall. Yuvraj struck again as Bipul took the catch.
Irfan Pathan accounted for the sixth one in Chaminda Vaas. T Suman got run out next.
Herschelle Gibbs and Symonds were looking set to lead Hyderabad to a good score when Yuvraj Singh dismissed Gibbs.
Just a couple of deliveries later, Rohit Sharma lost his wicket to a run out. Anirudh Singh also followed soon on his heels as Sangakkara caught him off Bipul Sharma.
Mohali's Shalabh Srivastava accounted for the all-important wicket of Adam Gilchrist as Hyderabad skipper had just started to fire. Mahela Jayawardena took an easy catch at short midwicket to get rid of the danger-man.
VVS Laxman was looking in good stead and was at his score of 10 runs when he had to retire hurt after injuring his fore-arm.
Mohali skipper Kumar Sangakkara had won the toss and elected to field first against Adam Gilchrist-led Hyderabad.
With the absence of some key players, the onus once again will be on Mohali's Mahela Jayawardene and captain Kumar Sangakkara to lead the batting charge against Hyderabad.
With Yuvraj Singh out of form, Brett Lee back in Australia and a few other key Australian players yet to come over for the IPL, Mohali is struggling at the moment.
Despite the good form of Ravi Bopara, the Mohali team will have to improve their batting to take on the strong bowling line up of Hyderabad, which boasts of Chaminda Vaas, R P Singh and Pragyan Ojha.
Playing XI:
Hyderabad: Adam Gilchrist (C) (W), VVS Laxman, Herschelle Gibbs, Andrew Symonds, Rohit Sharma, Tirumalsetti Suman, Anirudh Singh, Chaminda Vaas, Jaskaran Singh, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha
Mohali: Kumar Sangakkara (C) (W), Ravi Bopara, Adrian Barath, Manvinder Bisla, Yuvraj Singh, Mahela Jayawardena, Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Bipul Sharma, Shalabh Srivastava, Sreesanth
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