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Trent Boult set the tone early by claiming three wickets during the Power-play, and Avesh Khan followed with a crucial three-wicket haul towards the end, helping the Rajasthan Royals restrict Sunrisers Hyderabad to 175/9 in Qualifier 2 of the IPL 2024 at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium on Friday.
On a fresh pitch Boult (3-45) and Avesh (3-27) executed their plans perfectly, preventing SRH from posting a huge total. The RR seamers utilized cutters successfully surrendering only 25 runs in the last three overs in spite of the spinners going wicketless in their joined eight overs.
For SRH Rahul Tripathi scored 37 while Heinrich Klaasen‘s fighting fifty lifted them to a competitive total after being put in to bat by RR. Abhishek Sharma started well hitting Boult for some stylish boundaries but Boult had the last laugh as Sharma miscued a short ball to backward point. Tripathi looked promising hitting seven boundaries with four coming off Ravichandran Ashwin but fell for a brisk 15-ball 37 when he attempted to ramp a slower short ball from Boult and was caught at short third man. Boult then excused Aiden Markram in the equivalent over with a wide ball edge got by the diminutive third man.
Travis Head overcame a slow start by hitting four boundaries off Avesh and Sandeep Sharma but was caught at short third man trying to ramp a slower bouncer from Sandeep. Klaasen kept the innings alive with some huge sixes off Chahal but lacked support from the other end.
Nitish Kumar Reddy reverse-swept Avesh to short third man, and Avesh also bowled Abdul Samad. Klaasen hit a six off Boult to arrive at his fifty of every 33 balls however was bowled by a yorker from Sandeep on the following delivery.Avesh wrapped up his noteworthy spell by getting Shahbaz Ahmed captured at long-on and running out Jaydev Unadkat on the last chunk of the innings.
Brief scores:
IPL 2024 Sunrisers Hyderabad 175/9 in 20 overs (Heinrich Klaasen 50, Rahul Tripathi 37; Avesh Khan 3-27, Trent Boult 3-45) against Rajasthan Royals.
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