IPL 2023 Match 52: Sunrisers Hyderabad clinch last ball thriller against Rajasthan Royals

by CricDirect Sunday 7 May 2023

SRH's Abhishek Sharma celebrates his half-century

Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Rajasthan Royals by 4 wickets, off the last ball of the match, to clinch a thriller, at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur, today.

Match Summary

Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Match 52, Indian Premier League

Rajasthan Royals 214/2 (20 ov)

Sunrisers Hyderabad 217/6 (20 ov)

Result - Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 4 wickets

SCORECARD

UNFORGETTABLE N?O? ?B?A?L?L? NIGHT pic.twitter.com/yqjncRZhF3
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) May 7, 2023

Match Analysis

Abdul Samad smashed a last-ball six as Sunrisers Hyderabad chased down 215 to beat Rajasthan Royals by four wickets in a dramatic IPL match on Sunday.

With Hyderabad needing 17 off the final over, Samad was dropped off fast bowler Sandeep Sharma's first ball. Samad was caught off the sixth delivery but it turned out to be a no ball, which abruptly cut short Rajasthan's victory celebrations.

With four needed to win on the final ball, and three to take the game into the super over, Hyderabad had the last laugh as Samad smashed a straight six in his seven-ball 17.

Hyderabad had slipped to 174-5 when New Zealand's Glenn Phillips turned the game on its head with a seven-ball 25 that infused life into the chase.

Phillips smashed left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav for three sixes and a four before he was caught by Shimron Hetmyer off the fifth ball of the penultimate over.

"That was the ball I should have hit the most. I was disappointed the actual slot ball didn't go over the fence," Phillips said after being named man of the match.

"I felt I left a lot out there with 17 needed off the final over, but then Samad did what he did and obviously we got that little bit of luck with the no ball."

Phillips had come into the Hyderabad team for the under-performing big signing Harry Brook while England's Joe Root played his first game of the season for Rajasthan.

The victory was set up by key knocks from Abhishek Sharma (55), Rahul Tripathi (47) and Heinrich Klaasen (26) as the team made its highest ever run chase.

Yuzvendra Chahal's bowling figures of 4-29 went in vain.

Rajasthan posted 214-2 after a destructive second-wicket stand of 138 between Jos Buttler, who smashed 95 off 59 deliveries, and skipper Sanju Samson, who hit a 38-ball 66.

Buttler started slowly with his first 20 coming at a run a ball but changed gears to bring up his fifty.

Seam bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar denied Buttler a century to get him out lbw. Samson finished off the innings in a 17-run over but it wasn't enough in the end.

"To be honest life is never easy playing this format, especially this tournament," said Samson.

Match Stats

Rajasthan Royals Fall of wickets: 1-32 (Tom Blundell - 7.3 ov), 2-83 (Henry Nicholls - 16.6 ov), 3-157 (Will Young - 29.2 ov), 4-213 (Mark Chapman - 36.6 ov), 5-247 (Tom Latham - 41.6 ov), 6-267 (Cole McConchie - 44.4 ov), 7-283 (Adam Milne - 46.6 ov), 8-291 (Henry Shipley - 48.1 ov), 9-297 (Rachin Ravindra - 49.1 ov), 10-299 (Ish Sodhi - 49.3 ov)

Sunrisers Hyderabad Fall of wickets: 1-51 (Anmolpreet Singh - 5.5 ov), 2-116 (Abhishek Sharma - 12.4 ov), 3-157 (Heinrich Klaasen - 15.5 ov), 4-171 (Rahul Tripathi - 17.2 ov), 5-174 (Aiden Markram - 17.5 ov), 6-196 (Glenn Phillips - 18.5 ov)

Playing XIs

Rajasthan Royals: Jos Buttler(WK), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Joe Root, Dhruv Jurel,Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Murugan Ashwin, Sandeep Sharma, Kuldip Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, Glenn Phillips, Abdul Samad, Marco Jansen, Vivrant Sharma, Mayank Markande, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan

Match Details:

Date: Sunday, May 7, 2023 15:00

Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Toss: Rajasthan Royals elected to bat

Officials Umpires: Nitin Menon (India) Vinod Seshan (India) Virender Sharma (IndiaTV)

Match Referee: Javagal Srinath (India)