“SRH is Finished” – Fans slam Sunrisers Hyderabad’s innings against Rajasthan Royals on Twitter
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On Tuesday, March 29, the fifth match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 was played between Kane Williamson’s Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Sanju Samson’s Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, and Sanju Samson and co. won by a 61-run margin.
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat first. Rajasthan Royals (RR) made seven debuts, with four overseas players in the playing XI: Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Nathan Coulter-Nile, and Trent Boult. Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH overseas )’s players included skipper Kane Williamson, Nicholas Pooran, Aiden Markram, and Romario Shepherd.
Kane Williamson and company were led by Bhuvneshwar Kumar, while Rajasthan Royals were led by Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal (RR). The veteran SRH pacer dismissed Jos Buttler on the fifth delivery after bowling four dot balls, but the RR opener was given a reprieve because Bhuvneshwar Kumar overstepped.
Romario Shepherd bowled the second over, allowing only 5 runs, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar conceded 7 runs in the third over of the match. The fourth over was bowled by express pacer Umran Malik, and it proved to be a disastrous over for Sunrisers Hyderabad, as the pacer was smashed for four boundaries by Buttler and leaked 21 runs.
The RR openers scored 18 and 6 runs in the next two overs, which were bowled by Washington Sundar and T Natarajan, respectively, to help Rajasthan Royals reach the 58-run mark at the end of the powerplay.
Romario Shepherd struck the first blow for Sunrisers Hyderabad, dismissing Yashasvi Jaiswal for 20 on the first ball of the seventh over. Umran Malik had the last laugh in the battle against Buttler, dismissing the explosive batsman on the first ball of the ninth over. Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson scored a century in the 11th over with an explosive knock.
Devdutt Padikkal, a 21-year-old left-handed batsman, started slowly but quickly switched gears and went berserk against the SRH bowling unit. His innings totaled 41 runs off 29 balls, with four fours and two sixes, and he batted with a strike rate of 141.38.
Sanju Samson was bowled out by Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the 17th over after scoring 55 runs off 27 balls, including three fours and five sixes. Shimron Hetmyer of the West Indies smashed 32 runs off 13 balls, including two fours and three sixes, while batting with a strike rate of 246.15. Rajasthan Royals were able to post 210/6 on the board thanks to an outstanding batting performance.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) got off to a bad start while chasing the target, losing quick wickets of Kane Williamson for 2, Rahul Tripathi for 0 and Nicholas Pooran for 0.
Sunrisers Hyderabad had the worst powerplay performance of any team in the Indian Premier League, scoring only 14 runs while losing three wickets. Previously, the Rajasthan Royals scored 14 runs in the powerplay in 2009 but lost two wickets.
SRH also lost Abhishek Sharma for 9 runs and Abdul Samad for 4 runs. In the end, Aiden Markram and Washington Sundar batted well, but it wasn’t enough for the team to win.
Here’s How Twitter Reacted To Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Dominant Win Over Rajasthan Royals In IPL 2022:
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Sunrisers Hyderabad register lowest-ever powerplay score in IPL history
After being reduced to 14/3 in the first six overs, SRH were not only in a hopeless position from then on, but they have now also taken the lead in registering the lowest-ever powerplay score in IPL history. Coincidentally, the Orange Army broke the 13-year record set by their evening’s opponents, the Rajasthan Royals, in the 2009 edition of the Indian Premier League, when they were reduced to 14/2 against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in Cape Town.
Surprisingly, the defending champions, Chennai Super Kings, are third, fourth, and fifth on the list. During a 2011 game at Eden Gardens, they were reduced to 15/2 against the Kolkata Knight Riders. Apart from that, the four-time winners were reeling at 16/1 twice, once against Delhi in 2015 at Raipur and then four years later against RCB at Chennai.
| Scores | Teams | Opposition | Venue | Year |
| 14/3 | SRH | RR | Pune | 2022 |
| 14/2 | RR | RCB | Cape Town | 2009 |
| 15/2 | CSK | KKR | Kolkata | 2011 |
| 16/1 | CSK | DC | Raipur | 2015 |
| 16/1 | CSK | RCB | Chennai | 2019 |
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