SRH has been blowing super hot and super cold in this IPL 2024. They have been able to score above 250 thrice yet their bowling couldn’t really come together for them. Now, when it looked like opposition team would easily chase down the target, they won on the last ball. RR, who have been invincible this season fell on the last ball to a full toss.
Earlier, SRH have won the toss and elected to bat first. As they have been facing problems in chasing, they did not want to take any chance. But Abhishek Sharma(12) and Anmolpreet Singh(5) fell early. At this moment, Travis Head(58) and Nitish Kumar Reddy(76) have come together. They have put on 96-run partnership for 3rd wicket.
Heinrich Klaasen came to the crease at this moment and scored 42 runs from 19 balls. Yuzvendra Chahal had a rank bad day in this match and he continued the curse of being selected to Indian National Cricket team for WCT20. SRH scored 201/3 in the 20 overs.
In the chase, Bhuvneshwar Kumar sent back Jos Buttler(0) and Sanju Samson(0) in one over putting RR on back seat. Yashasvi Jaiswal(67) and Riyan Parag(77) have come together at this moment and put on 134-run partnership for 3rd wicket. It looked like RR is going to chase this score with one over to spare.
SRH Captain Pat Cummins bowled bowled tight overs and sent back Parag and Dhruv Jurel(1). Rovman Powell(27) looked like chasing down score in the last over. But Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled a full toss and Powell missed it when he could have sent it out anywhere. Hence, SRH won by 1 run in a tight competition.
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