Cricket Highlights, 08 May: IPL 2023 (Match 52) – Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad

Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (Match 52) – Highlights

Every match in this year’s IPL is ending dramatically. For example, on Sunday (May 7), viewers witnessed a dramatic match between Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). Sunrisers won by 4 wickets by hitting a six in the last ball.

Sunrisers needed 5 runs from the last ball, Abdul Samad was on the wicket. Samad was caught by Jos Buttler at long-off while picking up Sandeep Sharma, who has become the Royals’ death bowling specialist.

RR fans burst into joy after seeing the victory of their favorite team on their ground in Jaipur. Sandeep also closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he had won the team. But nobody was prepared for what happened next.

No ball siren sounded! It was seen on the TV replay that Sandeep had crossed the popping crease. As a result, Sunrisers got a ball as well as an extra run. Sunrisers get a free hit because of a no-ball. Sandeep had to do the last ball again.

This time, Samad did not make any mistakes in timing. He hit a six straight over the site screen and gave SRH an incredible win. In this victory, Sunrisers came to the 9th place after pushing Delhi Capitals (DC) to the bottom. At the same time, they saved the possibility of reaching the playoffs also.

Earlier, RR won the toss and decided to bat. Batting first, they lost only 2 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs and got a huge capital of 214 runs. RR picked up 61 runs, losing one wicket in 6 overs of power play. The young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, who is in great form, returned to the dressing room by Marco Jansen for the team’s 54 runs. He scored 35 runs off 18 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes.

After that, Buttler and Samson made a big partnership of 138 runs from 80 balls in the 2nd wicket. However, being only 5 runs away from the century, Buttler returned to the pavilion through lbw by pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar. His innings of 95 off 59 balls had 10 fours and 4 sixes. Samson (66 from 38 balls; 4 fours and 5 sixes) and Shimron Hetmyer (7 from 5 balls) finally left the field unbeaten.

However, cricket lovers have repeatedly seen this IPL that the collection is not safe even after scoring two hundred. And it happened this time too. Samson’s team could not even defend 214 runs. The Sunrisers’ batsmen started batting aggressively from the beginning after coming down to bat on this huge target. 51 runs from the opening pair. On this day, everyone got a run with the bat.

Even though the opener Anmolpreet Singh returned with 33, the rampage of the Sunrisers’ batsmen did not stop. Rahul Tripathi (47 runs from 29 balls) started batting devastatingly after dropping to three. On the other hand, another opener Abhishek Sharma returned to the pavilion with 55 off 34 balls. After that, SRH started to win in small cameos.

With an even number of 2 fours and sixes, Heinrich Klaasen scored 26 off 12 balls. Moreover, wicket-keeper batsman Glenn Phillips played an efficient inning of 25 runs off 7 balls with 1 four and 3 sixes. And in the end, Samad left the field after scoring an unbeaten 17 runs off 7 balls to bring the team a dramatic victory. This is the third-highest run-chase win in IPL history and the highest by Sunrisers.

Yuzvendra Chahal took the maximum of 4 wickets for RR with 29 runs in 4 overs. Besides, Ravichandran Ashwin and Kuldip Yadav took 1 wicket each. However, the Royals suffered a big blow to reach the knockout phase with this loss. They are now placed 4th in the points table.

Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Scoreboard

Rajasthan Royals – 214/2 (20.0)

Sunrisers Hyderabad – 217/6 (20.0)

Result – Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 4 wickets

Player of the match – Glenn Phillips

Glenn Phillips

Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XIs