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Sanju Samson led Rajasthan Royals began their Tata IPL 2023 campaign on a strong note . At Hyderabad The Royals came out with superb all- round effort to beat the home side SRH by a whopping 72 runs.
Put into bat by new SRH skipper Bhuvneshwar Kumar . The Royals made them pay for it. From the word go. Openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and England T20 World Cup winning skipper Jos Butler raced away to a great start 85 in mere 5.5 overs > It looked ominous. Jaiswal struck a fine 54 ( 37 balls , 9 fours) , Buttler too scored 54 but blazing ( 22 balls, 7 fours, 3 sixes). Skipper Sanju Samson carried on the momentum with a fine 55 ( 32 balls, 3 fours, 4 sixes) . Shimron Hetmyer finished the innings with a unbeaten cameo 16 ball 22 . Royals ended up with imposing 203/ 5 in their 20 overs.
SRH bowling flopped : Bhuvneshwar Kumar 0/ 36 ( 3 overs) , Fazalhaq Farooqi 2/ 41 ( 4 overs) , Washington Sundar 0/ 32 ( 3 overs), T Natarajan 2 / 23 ( 3 overs) , Adil Rashid 0/ 33 ( 4 overs) Umran Malik 1/ 32 ( 3 overs)
In Reply The SRH never recovered from the early jolt by Kiwi Trent Boult . Known to strike with consistency in the power Play Boult dismissed opener Abhishek Sharma for 0 . Then he had Rahul Tripathi for 0 . Twin blows by Boult rattled SRH . Others could not carry on Mayank Agarwal ( 27) , Abdul Samad not out 32, Harry Brook ( 13), Glenn Phillips ( 8) , Adil Rashid ( 18 ) . SRH gave inwithouta fight and could reach 131 / 8 in their 20 overs.
For the Royals. The bowling was spot on and complimented their batting show. Trent Boult 2/ 21 ( 4 overs), KM Asif 0/ 15 ( 3 overs) Jason Holder 1/ 16 ( 3 overs) , Ravichandran Ashwin 1/ 27 ( 4 overs) , Yuzvendra Chahal 4/ 17 ( 4 overs)
Match: IPL 2023, 4th Match
Venue: Hyderabad | Date: April 02, 2023
