Today, Rajasthan Royals hosted a big match against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur. The players of both the teams were well prepared and high on confidence. Sunrisers Hyderabad have performed amazingly well and have defended the low totals of 118 and 132 runs wonderfully. On the other hands, Rajasthan Royals gave a stunning performance in the previous match they played against Mumbai Indians.
As the match was about to begin, the toss was won by Kane Williamson, the skipper of Sunrisers Hyderabad who chose to bat first. Giving a total of 151 runs to chase to their opponents, Rajasthan Royals.
The first innings was opened by Alex Hales and Shikhar Dhawan. While Alex Hales scored 45 runs in 39 balls, Shikhar Dhawan went back to pavilion very early, scoring only 6 runs in 4 balls.
The skipper of the team, Kane Williamson scored 63 runs in 43 balls and smashed some stunning shots including 7 fours and 2 sixes. However, the other players failed to score big numbers on the score board.
The bowlers of Rajasthan Royals gave a stunning performance and couldn’t let the players of SRH score a big number. Jofra Archer did exceptionally well today just like his last performance. He took 3 wickets in today’s performance.
Here’s how twitteratis reacted to the first innings of the ongoing match, have a look:
4th Half-century. Most By Any Other Player In #IPL2018. You Gotta Appreciate The Way Kane Williamson Is Leading His Team From The Front Consistently. ??? #KaneWilliamson #RRvSRH #OrangeArmy #RRvsSRH pic.twitter.com/smLaiHQpjz
— Sir Jadeja fan (@SirJadeja) April 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/4u_shubh/status/990562545638494209
Release Manish Pandey next year and buy one more top bowler @SunRisers
— Jim Lindsay a.k.a Kyle Butler (@tarun_0707) April 29, 2018
Hi @im_manishpandey, please leave SRH team. We need some one who can rotate score.
— Sreehari (@Sreeharimekala) April 29, 2018
Manish Pandey is out after scoring just 16 runs off 15 balls with the Strike Rate off 106.67
And some people says I’m the only batsman in T20 Cricket who play slow. ?? #RRvSRH #SRHvRR #Manish #ManishPandey
— Ajinkya Harane (@AjinkyaHarane) April 29, 2018
Manish Pandey has got to be the least valuable player of this IPL.#RRvSRH
— Sai Sandeep Thota (@Sai_Sandeep99) April 29, 2018
Release Manish Pandey next year and buy one more top bowler @SunRisers
— Jim Lindsay a.k.a Kyle Butler (@tarun_0707) April 29, 2018
Top 5 run-scorers this #IPL
Ambati Rayudu
Kane Williamson
A B DeVilliers
Suryakumar
K L RahulThere’s room for timing in T20 too. #OrangeCap
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) April 29, 2018
These players are playing the match in the heat of Rajasthan….. yahan toh 5 minutes ke liye bhi bahar jaane mein fatt rahi hai#RRvSRH
— Young Struggling Man (@1sInto2s) April 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/OneTipOneHand_/status/990555537778659328
Jaydev Unadkat: 11.5 crores
Wickets: 3
Eco: 10.38
Avg: 72.67
S/R: 42Markande + Boult + Sid Kaul + McCleneghan + Shakib + Laughlin + Chahar + Gopal: 11.5 crores
Wickets: 67
Eco: 7.9
Avg: 21
S/R: 16#RRvSRH— Abhay (@ImAbhay3) April 29, 2018
Unadkat (INR 11,50,00,000) takes down Manish Pandey (INR 11,00,00,000). RR management knew extra 50 L spent on Unadkat will reap benefits. #IPL
— cricBC (@cricBC) April 29, 2018
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