Rajasthan Royals won by 61 runs. Defending a mammoth 210/6, Rajasthan Royals bowlers, especially Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna and Yuzvendra Chahal, took wickets at regular intervals to stop Sunrisers Hyderabad to 149/7. RR’s batters Sanju Samson (55) and Devdutt Padikkal (41) powered Rajasthan Royals to a massive 210 for 6. The Royals batters smacked as many as 14 sixes in their innings to go with 16 fours.
SRH vs RR Match Result, IPL 2022: Who won Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals Match?
Match Overview
Ist Inning
SRH having won the toss didn’t disturb the tradition of batting second, set in this year’s IPL by the toss winning teams. RR openers gave a steady start to the team in the powerplay. The first wicket fell in the seventh over. The innings got further build-up by the elegant and explosive partnership of the RR skipper Sanju Samson and Devdutt Padikkal adding 96 runs. The last booster was given by Shimron Hetmyer who added 32 in just 13 balls. The absence of Rashid Khan seemed pretty evident in SRH’s bowling line up and Rajasthan set a massive target of 211 for the SunRisers.
IInd inning
SRH openers couldn’t settle in well. Prasidh Krishna scalped 2 important wickets of Kane Williamson and Rahul Tripathi in quick succession. SRH broke the record of the lowest score in the batting powerplay in IPL. Wickets then kept falling like bowling pins. SRH batter Markram made an unbeatable 57 runs, supported by Washington Sundar‘s 40. SRH’s inning got ended for 149/7. RR bowling unit performed exceptionally well today with Chahal picking up 3 wickets, and Trent Boult, P. Krishna picking 2 wickets each.
Who won the Player(Man) of the Match today?
Rajasthan Skipper Sanju Samson won the Player of the match award for his explosive 55 runs in 27 balls.
Playing Squad
SRH Playing XI-
Kane Williamson (c), Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Priyam Garg, Vishnu Vinod, Glenn Phillips, R Samarth, Shashank Singh, Washington Sundar, Romario Shepherd, Marco Jansen, J Suchith, Shreyas Gopal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sean Abbott, Kartik Tyagi, Saurabh Tiwary, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Umran Malik, T Natarajan
RR Playing XI– Sanju Samson (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Shubham Garwal, Dhruv Jurel, Kuldip Yadav, Kuldeep Sen, Tejas Baroka, Anunay Singh, KC Kariappa, Jos Buttler, Rassie Van der Dussen, Nathan Coulter Nile, Jimmy Neesham, Daryl Mitchell, Karun Nair, Obed McCoy, Navdeep Saini, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal.
