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Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) registered their second win in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 after they defeated Rajasꩲthan Royals (RR) by seven wickets at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Mo﷽nday.
Chasing 165, debutant Jason Roy and wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha took Sunrisers to a flying start. The pair added 57 runs in just five overs before Saha got out. But, Roy continued the domination and reached his first half-century of the cash-rich league for the ‘Orange Army’.
Roy put together a crucial 57-run stand with skipper Kane Williamson for the second wicket before Chetan Sakariya sent him back to the dugout. Williamson, however, kept on ti꧙ckling the scoreboard and got his team home by staying unbeaten on 51 off 41 balls.
Earlier, Sanju Samson was on absolute fire with the bat to take his side to a respectable total. Samson took SRH bowlers to the cleaners and 🥂played a breathtaking knock of 82 runs off 57 deliveries, including seven fours and three humungous sixes.
Apart from the captain, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (36 off 23) and middle-order batter Mahipal Lomror (29 not out) made valuable contrib꧅utions to help Rajasthan post 164/5 in tౠheir allotted 20 overs.
Jason Holder and Bhuvneshwar Kumar were the least expensive bowlers for the Sunrisers. While Holder gave away 27 runs in his quota of 4 overs, Bhuvneshwar conceded 28 runs in 4 overs and also picked up the prized scalp of RR opener Evin Lewis (6).
Here is how Twitter reacted:
may be out of playoffs race but they c💎an definitely make other teams chances worse. And they did today in game. Well played Jason Roy and Williamson.
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
Talk about taking your chances….. not missing 🤪out! Plus a little luck 🍀
— Lisa Sthalekar (@sthalekar93)
That's that from Match 40. win by 7 wickets.
FIFTY for th꧃e Skipper an⛄d their second win in 2021.
Scorecard –
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
Jason Roy 👁👁
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan)
Players with a 50+ score onꦕ IPL debut for Sunris𓃲ers Hyderabad:-
Shikhar Dhawan vs CSK, 2013
Jason Roy vs RR, today— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats)
Jason Roy 🧡
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
THE WIN BY 7 WICKETS!! And Captain Kane gets to a superb 50 with the winning boundary as well. 🔥🔥 – 167/3 (18.3)
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers)
Here he is 🔥
— England's Barmy Army 🏴🎺 (@TheBarmyArmy)
SRH win by 7 wickets. 😢
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals)
Sunrisers Hyderabad defeats Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets. Brilliant batting performance by👍 SRH, Jason Roy and Kane Williamson were amazing in🍎 the run chase.
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra)
First win for after 5 games in – lead by Roy 60(42), cool calm composed Williamson 51*(41) and young Abhishek 21*(16) helped to chase down 165 runs against .
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)