Sunrisers Hyderabad Beat Rajasthan Royals By 5 Wickets: The historic Sawai Mansingh Stadium of Jaipur witnessed a tremendous match between Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad. While Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored the second century of his IPL career, quick fifties from Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan turned the tide in SRH’s favour. With this win, Orange Army has gained 10 points and has reached third place in the points table, while RR has slipped one place to fourth place.
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and asked Rajasthan Royals to bat first. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Suryavanshi came to open for the host team. Jaiswal became the victim of Ishan Malinga on a personal score of just 10 runs, Dhruv Jurel, who came at number three, started scoring runs rapidly, before Nitish Kumar Reddy was out in the over, he played an inning of 51 runs with the help of 8 fours and 1 six in 35 balls.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi remained at the crease for a long time, he first completed his fifty in 15 balls and then scored the second century of his IPL career in 36 balls. Before being out LBW on the ball of Shakib Hussain, he scored a brilliant 103 runs with the help of 5 fours and 12 sixes in 37 balls, during which his strike rate was 278.37.
After the dismissal of Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the pace of runs of Rajasthan Royals slowed down, as captain Riyan Parag returned to the pavilion after scoring only 7 runs. Although Donoval Ferreira provided some momentum by scoring 33 runs in 16 balls, the rest of the batsmen did not contribute much due to which RR scored 228/6 in 20 overs. Talking about bowling, Ishan Malinga took 2 wickets, apart from this Prafulla Hinge, Saqib Hussain, Pat Cummins and Nitish Kumar Reddy took 1 wicket each.
Chasing 229 runs, Sunrisers Hyderabad did not have a good start, their opener Travis Head was caught by Dhruv Jurel by Jofra Archer on a personal score of just 6 runs. Although after this there was an important partnership of 132 runs between Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan, but then Abhishek returned to the pavilion after scoring 57 runs in 29 balls and Ishan 31 runs. Nitish Kumar Reddy added important runs by scoring 36 runs in 18 balls. Heinrich Klaasen became the victim of Brijesh Sharma after scoring 29 runs in the 18th over, but in 18.3 overs, SRH scored 229 runs losing 5 wickets and hoisted the flag of victory.
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