MATCH REPORT: M45 - RR VS SRH

MATCH REPORT: M45 - RR VS SRH

Match Replay

Rajasthan Royals climbed to sixth place in VIVO IPL 2019 standings after defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 45 matches played at Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Saturday night. After Steve Smith opted to win the toss and choose to bowl, their bowlers supported the decision of their captain and stopped Sunrisers at 160-8. In the second half, Liam Livingstone and Ajinkya Rahane shared partnerships together in the initial partnership of 78, which laid the foundation for the chase. After being dismissed within two overs of each other, Sanju Samson and captain Smith shared a 55-run partnership and gave their team victory.

In the previous part of Sunrisers' innings, several balls were seen stopping at the pitch and one felt that the pitch had slowed down. It could be a reason that Livingstone and Rahane started off aggressively; When the ball was tough and the ball was coming well on the bat, then the pair got heavier on the bowlers. Rahane set a tone; He opened his account in the first over with fluent innings of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and in the third over he scored two fours. In the fourth over, Rahane deposited Rashid Khan in the stand on the midwicket. It was at this point that Livingstone joined the party; In the same over, they put a ball in the corner of the cow in the stand.

In the last over of the Powerplay, Livingstone scored 20 runs from Siddle Kaul - two fours and two sixes - and 32 runs in 17 balls. Royals had scored 60 runs without any loss in the first six overs. At the beginning of the tenth over the English opener was dismissed when he took Rashid Khan to the wicketkeeper. After two overs, Rahane leaked Shakib Al Hasan to Long Off.

At that stage, 2 wickets for 89 runs, Sanju Samson and Captain Smith (22 in 16 balls) scored 55 runs in 5.3 overs to bring their side close to the closing. Then Ashton Turner, who consistently finished the order of five ducks, and Samson (48 not out in 32 balls) completed the work; Samson put a winning chase on Shakib-Al-Hassan's ball on the first ball of the last over.

For Sunrisers, three wickets shared between Shakib-al-Hasan, Rashid Khan and Khalil Ahmed. Bhuvneshwar Kumar got only 22 runs in his four overs but could not take a wicket.

In the evening, Sunrise's innings had two parts. After the dismissal of Kane Williamson in the fourth over, David Warner and Manish Pandey shared a 75-run partnership for the second wicket. Pandey was fluent with the bat and went ahead with his unbeaten innings in the last match. He dominated the partnership with Warner, who was very buried and did not have a single boundary in his 32-ball 37. The partnership was broken when Warner was dismissed against playing; It took a special effort from Steve Smith, who was at a distance of several yards from the mid-off, with the ball stretching the entire length, still falling away from it, and completed a spectacular catch.

Pandey, who scored a half-century on 27 balls, was trapped by Stuart Sanju Samson on a quick ball of Glovework. While trying for a late cut, Pandey did the googly with Shreyas Gopal; Samson paused the first ball and then brought the stumping to fullness. Although the TV umpire called Pandey a stump out, later found out that Manish had actually shuffled the ball and the wicketkeeper was turned into 'catch' by Sanju Samson.

Then the second part of the Sunrisers innings; Prior to 121-2, Pandey was immediately stopped, because SRH lost six wickets for 26 runs and finally ended at 160-8.

For Royals, four bowlers - Varun Aaron, Oshen Thomas, Shreyas Gopal, and Jaydev Unadkat - shared eight wickets evenly. Unadkat gave 15 runs in his first two overs and then took two wickets with 11 runs in his remaining two overs and finished with impressive figures of 4-0-26-2.

Standing batting display

Only playing his second IPL match, Liam Livingstone may have been inspired to start aggressively with his starting partner. The Englishmen, who had scored very little in the first three overs, hit the ball with a lot of cleanliness, repeatedly targeting the area between midwicket and long on. He made four fours and three sixes in his 26-ball innings; On the off side of the pitch, only two runs out of his 44 runs.

Notable Support Act - Batting

Ajinkya Rahane, version 2.0 - batting aggressively for the third time in three matches, without the captaincy burden. He opened his account with a flowing boundary through cover and then deposited two chords - on either side of a pitch - in the third over. In the fourth over, he made Rashid Khan a six off the midwicket. After running for 28 runs in 19 balls, he took a backseat because Livingstone had opened on the other end. He was finally dismissed for 39; His 34-ball innings included four fours and a six.

State of the match

This win was Steve Smith's 19th win as captain in the IPL. After this victory, he joined Shane Warne as the captain in IPL as the captain with the most victory after 28 matches.

Short score:

Rajasthan Royals: 161-3 (Ajinkya Rahane 39, Liam Livingstone 44, Sanju Samson 48 *) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad: 160-8 (David Warner, Manish Pandey 61) by 7 wickets in 19.1 overs.

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Jaydev Unadkat took two wickets for 26 runs.