RR vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: High Scoring last over thriller ended in SRH’s favor.
RR vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: In match number 52 of the TATA IPL 2023, Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Rajasthan Royals by 4 wickets in the last over of the match, with Abdul Samad hitting the last ball six to win the match for his team. Rajasthan Royals batting first put a high score of 214 runs on the scoreboard, which was the highest score at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium by any team, and Sunrisers Hyderabad chased the target in the final ball of the innings. Youngsters in Sunrisers Hyderabad’s team played a huge role in their victory.
RR vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Playing XI of both teams:
Rajasthan Royals: There were some big changes in the batting order as Devdutt Padikkal didn’t play the last game while Joe Root was included in the team. Trent Boult and Adam Zampa were also not part of the playing XI.
Rajasthan Royals: Playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson(w/c), Joe Root, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Murugan Ashwin, Sandeep Sharma, Kuldip Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal
Impact Player: Obed McCoy
Sunrisers Hyderabad: SRH also made some changes in the batting order, and Mayank Agarwal and Harry Brook weren’t part of the team in this match.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Glenn Phillips, Abdul Samad, Marco Jansen, Vivrant Sharma, Mayank Markande, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan
Impact Player: Anmolpreet Singh
RR vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Good start by Rajasthan Royals Openers:
RR vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Rajasthan Royals opened their innings with the young sensation Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler. Yashasvi opened his run account with a boundary and later put his foot on the accelerator and hit some good shots while on the other end. Buttler started scoring runs, but Jaiswal was in a different zone, and the duo managed to put 50 runs on the board in just 4 overs, but in the 5th over, while trying to play a cheeky shot in Marco Jansen’s ball, Jaiswal was caught by T Natarajan. He made 36 runs in 18 balls.
Jos Buttler was now joined by the captain, Sanju Samson, and they both started making runs from both ends. Jos Buttler started changing gears, and the duo started dealing with boundaries. Jos Buttler was crawling towards his 6th IPL century, but Bhubaneswar Kumar dismissed him with a scintillating yorker in the 19th over of their innings. Buttler scored 95 runs in 58 balls, while Sanju Samson completed his fifty. It was the third half-century of Sanju Samson this season.
Later, Sanju fired some shots that took his team to a score of 214 runs, which was a record score to chase for any team.
RR vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Openers gave the start
RR vs. SRH highlights, IPL 2023: Sunrisers Hyderabad opened their innings with their impressive young left-handed batter Abhishek Sharma and substituted impact player in Anmolpreet Singh. The duo started making runs and tried to give a solid start to their team, and they had a partnership of 51 runs, but Anmolpreet Singh in the last over of the powerplay gave his wicket to Yuzvendra Chahal, Anmolpreet Singh scored 31 runs in 24 balls.
Rahul Tripathi came to the crease to support Abhishek Sharma, and the duo started scoring runs from both ends. In the 13th over of the innings, Abhishek Sharma got out in the over of Ravichandran Ashwin after making his fifty, and Heinrich Klaasen entered the ground and started powering the balls out of the park. Yuzvendra Chahal got rid of the Klassen in the 16th over when SRH was running behind by 58 runs.
Rahul Tripathi was caught on the boundary by Yashasvi Jaiswal while he was trying to hit the ball out of the boundary line. He scored 47 runs in 29 balls. Aiden Markram failed to impress and got out in the same over as Yuzvendra Chahal.
Glenn Phillips three consecutive sixes in the penultimate over ignited hope in the Sunrisers Hyderabad dugout, and Abdul Samad capitalized on the opportunity when SRH required 17 runs in the final over of the innings. SRH required a miracle, and it did happen. Abdul Samad hit a six in the last ball of the match to win it for his team.
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RR vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Last over Drama
RR vs. SRH highlights, IPL 2023: In the last over of the match, Sunrisers Hyderabad required 17 runs, and the ball was in the hands of Rajasthan Royals’ death over specialist Sandeep Sharma. In the very first ball, when Abdul Samad tried to hit the ball in the stands, it got lifted high in the air, but Obed McCoy failed to take the simple catch. In the second ball, Abdul Samad hit it over long on for a six, and the runs required to win the match came to 9 in 4 balls.
Abdul Samad and Marco Jansen managed to score only 5 runs in the next 3 balls, but the no-ball delivery by Sandeep Sharma in the last ball of the match gave the match another twist. With 4 runs required in the last ball, Abdul Samad held his nerve and deposited the ball in the stands, winning the match for his team. This was the highest-ever run chase by Sunrisers Hyderabad against the Rajasthan Royals.
RR vs SRH highlights IPL 2023: Post Match:
Rajasthan Royals just didn’t have their day last night as even after managing to score big, they couldn’t defend it and lost the match, where Sunrisers Hyderabad did a comeback and kept their playoff hope alive. Rajasthan Royals need to revise their strategy as they are going down the table, while Sunrisers Hyderabad has to win all of their upcoming matches to be in the race for the playoffs.