New Delhi, In the 52nd match of IPL 2023, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Rajasthan Royals by 4 wickets on the last ball of the match. Abdul Samad (17) hit a six in the last ball to give his team victory. The last over of the match was brilliant for Sunrisers Hyderabad. IPL 2023 RR vs SRH
Hyderabad needed 17 runs from the last over to win. While Rajasthan’s veteran bowler Sandeep Sharma was bowling. When Abdul Samad was at the crease. Samad scored 2 runs on the first ball. On the second he hit a brilliant six and on the third ball he again managed to get two runs.
When he took a single on the fourth ball. Macro Jensen also took a single on strike off the fifth ball. Now SRH needed 5 runs to win from the last ball. When Sandeep Sharma bowled the last ball to Samad, he hit it short but the ball could not go far in this short. As it turns out, this was Sandeep’s last ball. Samad scored a six in the free hit to give his team the win. Jas Buttler played an aggressive innings for Rajasthan Royals.
He scored 95 runs in 59 balls. Buttler hit 10 fours and four sixes in his innings, including Yashwi Jaiswal (35 off 18 balls) for the first wicket and then captain Sanju Samson (66 not out off 38 balls) for the second wicket with 54 off 30 balls. A partnership of 138 runs was registered between the two in 81 runs. Samson scored his fourth consecutive half-century against Hyderabad. He hit four fours and five sixes in the innings.
Rajasthan Royal scored a total of 214 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in 20 overs. SRH came out chasing the target and batted well in the power play. Especially the three top order batsmen of the team scored runs for the team. In which opener Abhishek Sharma played an innings of 55 runs in 34 balls.
After which Rahul Tripathi scored 47 runs. While opener Anmolpreet Singh scored 33 runs. Sunrisers Hyderabad fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave away 44 runs in his 4 overs and took one wicket. Similarly, Marco Jensen took one wicket by giving 44 runs in 4 overs. The rest of the bowlers failed to take wickets.SS1MS