RR's bowler Jason Holder along with teammates celebrate the dismissal of SRH's Washington Sunda
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Rajasthan's dominant victory over Hyderabad thanks to explosive performance by Jos Buttler
England's Jos Buttler hit a scintillating half-century to help the Rajasthan Royals hammer Sunrisers Hyderabad by 72 runs in their opening match of the Indian Premier League on Sunday.
Match Summary
Sunrisers Hyderabad 131/8 (20 ov)
Rajasthan Royals 203/5 (20 ov)
Rajasthan Royals won by 72 runs.
Buttler's 22-ball 54 led the team's batting onslaught as they posted 203-5, and then their bowlers restricted hosts Hyderabad to 131-8 in the first match of the day.
Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal returned figures of 4-17 after pace spearhead Trent Boult struck twice in his first over.
Buttler and his opening partner Yashasvi Jaiswal -- who also made 54 -- had provided an explosive start to last year's runners-up and the inaugural IPL champions.
Skipper Sanju Samson also joined in the charge with his powerful 55 before he departed in the 19th over and Shimron Hetmyer finished off the innings with his unbeaten 22.
Buttler was the leading batsman in the last IPL season with 863 runs including four centuries, and he then led England to a T20 World Cup triumph in 2022.
He reached his fifty in 20 balls before being bowled by Afghanistan left-arm pace bowler Fazalhaq Farooqui inside the sixth over.
Samson soon took charge then with Jaiswal for company as they piled on the runs.
Hyderabad were never in the chase after Boult bowled Abhishek Sharma for a duck and then Jason Holder clung on to a superb catch at slip to send back Rahul Tripathi.
Wickets kept tumbling, including Harry Brook (13) and Glenn Phillips (8). Getting in big-hitter Abdul Samad as an "impact player" only reduced the margin of loss as he hit an unbeaten 32.
The impact player, who can only be an Indian unless the team has fewer than four overseas players in their XI, is chosen from one of five substitutes listed with the team.
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atch Stats
Rajasthan Royals Fall of wickets: 1-85 (Jos Buttler - 5.5 ov), 2-139 (Yashasvi Jaiswal - 12.3 ov), 3-151 (Devdutt Padikkal - 14.1 ov), 4-170 (Riyan Parag - 16.1 ov), 5-187 (Sanju Samson - 18.3 ov)
Sunrisers Hyderabad Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Abhishek Sharma - 0.3 ov), 2-0 (Rahul Tripathi - 0.5 ov), 3-34 (Harry Brook - 6.6 ov), 4-39 (Washington Sundar - 8.2 ov), 5-48 (Glenn Phillips - 9.3 ov), 6-52 (Mayank Agarwal - 10.6 ov), 7-81 (Adil Rashid - 13.6 ov), 8-95 (Bhuvneshwar Kumar - 17.5 ov)
Playing XI
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Mayank Agarwal, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Harry Brook, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips(WK), Umran Malik, Adil Rashid, Bhuvneshwar Kumar(C), T Natarajan, Fazalhaq Farooqi
Rajasthan Royals: Jos Buttler(WK), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(C), Devdutt Padikkal, Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jason Holder, Trent Boult, KM Asif, Yuzvendra Chahal
Match Details:
Date:Sunday, April 2, 2023 11:00
Venue: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
Toss: Sunrisers Hyderabad elected to bowl
Officials Umpires: KN Ananthapadmanabhan (India) Rohan Pandit (India) Navdeep Singh (India TV)
Match Referee: Narayanan Kutty (India)
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