Rajasthan did not care about Hyderabad
Rajasthan Royals showed devastating batting in their first match of 2023 IPL. Jos Buttler started it. Standing on the foundation built by him, two more batters scored half-centuries. Later Yuzvendra Chahal showed magic with the ball. The opponent Sunrisers Hyderabad did not care about their power. Rajasthan won by 72 runs at home ground Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium today. Batting at the beginning, Samson army set a huge target of 203 runs after losing 5 wickets. Then they stopped Hyderabad for 131 runs with great bowling.
Chasing the target, Hyderabad could not take advantage from the start. Rajasthan's QI pacer Trent Boult hit a double in the first over. Hyderabad lost two wickets before getting any runs on the scoreboard. After that, they could not handle the shock. Instead, Chahal took one victim after another and pushed them to the edge of the ditch. This right-arm spinner dismissed 4 batters alone. Besides, Jason Holder and Ravichandran Ashwin took 1 wicket each. Only Abdul Samad, who came down in the lower middle order, got runs worth talking about for Hyderabad. His innings of 32 not out from 32 balls did nothing but reduce the margin of defeat. Besides, Mayank Agarwal scored 27 runs in the opening. And at the end, Umran Malik played an innings of 19 runs off 8 balls.
Earlier, Buttler stormed out to bat at the start. This English opener played a stormy innings of 54 runs in just 22 balls, 7 fours and 3 sixes. 85 runs came in his partnership with another opener Yashshwi Jashwal. Butler went back but Rajasthan did not suffer. Because both Jashwal and Sanju Samson get to see fifties. Among them, Jashwal scored 54 off 37 balls and Samson scored 55 off 32 balls. Besides, in the end, effective unbeaten 22 runs from 16 balls came from Shimron Hetmyer's bat.