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Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, 52nd Match IPL-2023
Another breath-taking match was played in IPL 2023. In the 52nd match of the 16th season, Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) clashed, which resulted in the last ball. After winning the toss, RR posted a score of 214/2 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. In response, SRH won by making 217/6. Experienced fast bowler Sandeep Sharma, who defended 21 runs against CSK, could not defend 17 runs. He bowled a no-ball in the last over which resulted in RR’s defeat. At the same time, Abdul Samad of Jammu and Kashmir became the hero by leading SRH to victory.
Abhishek Sharma (55), Rahul Tripathi (47), Anmolpreet Singh (33) and Heinrich Klaasen (26) batted brilliantly for Hyderabad but despite that the team was struggling at 172 for 5 in the 18th over. In such a situation, Glenn Phillips, who was included in the playing XI in place of Harry Brook, adopted a stormy attitude. He blamed Kuldeep Yadav. Kuldeep looted 24 runs in the 19th over. Phillips hit sixes in the first three balls and hit a four in the fourth ball. However, he got out on the ball. He put RR on the backfoot with a 7-ball 25. Samad completed the rescue work from here.
Samad was on strike when Sandeep held the ball in the 20th over. He bowled after outside off stump, on which Samad tried to play the shot over cover but the ball went towards short third man. Samad ran and completed two runs. Sandeep bowled a wide yorker in the second ball, which was sent by Samad towards long-on for a six. Samad got the third ball yorker and took a double by playing the shot towards long off. Sandeep bowled a low full toss in the fourth ball, after which Samad took a single. Marco Jansen was on strike on the fifth ball. Janson sends the low full toss ball in the direction of deep midwicket and takes a single. SRH needed 5 runs to win off the last ball. After this, Sandeep bowled a wide yorker outside off stump. Samad lifted the shot but was caught by Jos Buttler at long off. The Rajasthan camp started celebrating the victory, but then the umpire signaled a no-ball because Sandeep’s leg was brought down.
Abdul Samad messed up final over chases against MI and KKR this season, but the management backed him and today he won them up a pretty improbable looking game. Sandeep Sharma was the hero for RR in their game against CSK when Dhoni was going berserk, but today he’ll feel the burden of letting his team down just because he couldn’t still inside the lines… Sport is such a great leveler in life!!
