Hyderabad: A tense, breathless match. The first super over of this year’s IPL did not have to happen. Sunrisers Hyderabad beat league toppers Rajasthan Royals in a last-over-last-ball thriller. Pat Cummins’ team won by 1 run. Rovman Powell was able to bring the team to victory with the last ball. Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the hero with the last ball wicket. Chasing the target of 202 runs set by Sunrisers, Rajasthan stopped at 2000 runs. Sanju Samson’s team tasted their second defeat of the season.
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and decided to bat first. Although the start of the day was slow, the Orange Army batted well in the last 10 overs. In the beginning, Travis Head played an innings of 58 runs off 44 balls. Abhishek Sharma and Anmalpreet Singh did not get runs. Nitish Kumar Reddy and Travis Head put on a 96-run partnership. Nitish Kumar Reddy batting mercurially on this day as well. The young batsman played an impeccable innings of 76 runs off 42 balls. In the end, Henrik Klaasen scored 42 runs off 19 balls. Nitish and Klaasen’s unbeaten 71-run partnership made SRH 201 for 3 in 20 overs.
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Rajasthan Royals did not get off to a good start chasing runs. Jos Buttler and Sanju Samson went back to dressing room without opening the account. After that, Rajasthan returned to the match with the bat of Yasswi Jaiswal and Rian Parag. The two made a partnership of 133 runs. Two young stars scored half centuries. Yasaswi and Ryan got out after scoring 67 off 40 balls and 77 off 49 balls. In the next over, Hetmyer was dismissed for 13 and Dhruv Jurel scored 1 run. In the end, Rovman Powell gave Rajasthan hope of victory. There were 2 runs left in the last ball. But Powell was out lbw to Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Sunrisers won the match by 1 run.
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- First Published : May 3, 2024, 0:23 am IST
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