Hello and a warm welcome to yet another blog on the daily match reviews of this year’s IPL. Here I will talk about the game played between the Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Rajasthan Royals at Chepauk. So let’s get started!
Sanju Samson won another toss and opted to field first. Once again SRH were off to a rusty start and the batting initially fared out quite similar to how they played with KKR but Klassen played beautifully towards the back end but still, they ended up being short, hitting about 170. Yet again the RR openers were off to a flying start and were set for an easy win but Cummins masterfully used Shahbaz and Abhishek Sharma against an aggressive Samson and Jaiswal, both perishing playing the big shots and this triggered a massive collapse, which RR couldn’t recover. Jurel fought till the end with an incredible fifty but it was too much as SRH won a superb game comfortably.
After being trashed by KKR, Cummins and his boys were brilliant with the ball as with the bat yet again they were below par as they lost about 3 wickets in the powerplay. SRH would be proud of themselves as their bowlers finally won a game for them. Sanju was once again brilliant as captain, setting his fields perfectly but with bat, he faltered for the second time in the playoffs as he needlessly took the risk this innings. But you can’t compare Cummins as captain to anybody else in the present world as he has won multiple tournaments for his country. He sensed that by reducing the pace on the ball, brought Shahbaz and Abhishek, who so far was used as a pure batter, which maybe surprised RR and maybe they thought that he was a part-time spinner and could go after him. But this was maybe SRH’s secret cannonball to crush the opposition and in a matter of few overs RR from being on top threw the game. So this was the overall difference as both teams had some really good bowling performances but were under-par with bat. So the next blog will be on the grand finale between SRH and KKR.