Sunrisers Hyderabad could only post a below-par score of 160. Rajasthan Royals skipper Steven Smith won the toss and decided to bowl first in the 45th match of the Indian Premier League. Sunrisers Hyderabad had a new opening pair as Jonny Bairstow has returned back to England. Meanwhile, Kane Williamson was back for the Orange Army and opened the innings with Warner.
However, the visitors could not get off to a good start as Kane Williamson was cleaned up by Shreyas Gopal. Gopal was able to bamboozle the Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper to give a fine start to the Royals. David Warner and Manish Pandey who had posted a fine partnership in the previous match once again added a good partnership.
Pandey scored back to back fifties.
Warner and Williamson added a fine alliance of 75 runs for the second wicket partnership. Manish Pandey completed back to back fifties and brought his best to the table. Pandey brought his fifty in 27 balls. However, the right-hander lost his balance and he was stumped by Sanju Samson after making 61 runs. The right-hander scored nine fours in his knock.
Meanwhile, David Warner scored 37 runs from 32 balls. In fact, Warner could not score any boundaries in his knock. Warner went against Oshane Thomas and got a top edge which was brilliantly taken by Rajasthan Royals captain Steven Smith.
Middle Order haunts SRH once again.
Shreyas Gopal was once again the pick of the Rajasthan Royals as he scalped two wickets. The leg-spinner was right on the money and reaped fruits for his accuracy.
Meanwhile, Vijay Shankar disappointed once again as he flummoxed by Varun Aaron’s slower one. Jaydev Unakat took a fine catch while coming forward and Shankar was dismissed after scoring eight runs. Unadkat took a fine return catch to dismiss Deepak Hooda for a golden duck.
Rajasthan Royals bowlers came back in style as they didn’t let the batters off the hook. There were no freebies and the hosts were able to tighten the screws. In fact, Sunrisers Hyderabad batting order collapsed like a house of cards.
Here is how Twitter to Sunrisers Hyderabad innings:
Great spell ot!
— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) April 27, 2019
3D stuff does not come off in Jaipur.
— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) April 27, 2019
Really pleased for Manish Pandey. Good player to watch when on song #RRvSRH
— Bharath Ramaraj (@Fancricket12) April 27, 2019
Vijay Shankar will bat at number 4 in World Cup…worse than rayudu
— JSK (@imjsk27) April 27, 2019
SRH's middle order contribution is #IPL2019 pic.twitter.com/GbyduJvH21
— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) April 27, 2019
Highest scores without a boundary (IPL):
37(32) D Warner SRH v RR Jaipur 2019 *
34(39) S Smith RPS v SRH Hyderabad 2017
28(30) MS Dhoni CSK v RCB Joburg 2009#RRvSRH #RR #SRH— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks) April 27, 2019
Shreyas Gopas has got 9 wickets of openers in this IPL – the most among all bowlers.
Openers who have got out to him:
Bairstow
Kohli
Narine
Lynn
Rohit
De Kock
Dhawan
Shaw
Williamson (today)He has got 14 wickets, 9 of them being openers of the opposition team. #RRvSRH
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) April 27, 2019
Great work by Samson behind the stumps for #RR to dismiss Pandey. #RRvSRH
— Rob McGregor (@SamuraiPizzaRob) April 27, 2019
SRH's middle order continues to be fragile .. over the years…#RRvSRH
— Sapthagiri M (@SapthagiriM) April 27, 2019
Sunrisers batting line-up be like #SRH #RRvSRH #IPL2019 pic.twitter.com/e4Cp1lJgIw
— CIG (@chandu21) April 27, 2019
A stunner from Steve Smith has completely changed this match. #RRvSRH
— Рramod. (@Cric_Pramod) April 27, 2019
Warner gone without hitting a single boundry.#RRvSRH pic.twitter.com/QhQHeFHkEK
— مكرم (@mkr_mukarram) April 27, 2019
https://twitter.com/_cricketsparsh/status/1122167685553328129
https://twitter.com/Ashu1705/status/1122167666494459905
https://twitter.com/akkiakki973798/status/1122167653462732800
https://twitter.com/restlessler/status/1122167632818393088
https://twitter.com/Being_Indian_SB/status/1122167585905180672
with all due respect to the various experts who rate him very bery highly….in what 'dimension' is Vijay Shankar better than Rishabh Pant…..@BCCI @ESPNcricinfo #RRvSRH
— Mani Natarajan (@ManiNIyer) April 27, 2019
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