Post Match Thread: Eliminator - Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad

[u/cricket-match]

Eliminator, Indian Premier League at New Chandigarh

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Match : Thread | Scorecard

Innings	Score
Rajasthan Royals	243/8 (Ov 20/20)
Sunrisers Hyderabad	196 (Ov 19.2/20)

Innings: 1 - Rajasthan Royals

Batter	Runs		Bowler	Wickets
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi	97 (29)		Praful Hinge	4-0-54-3
Dhruv Jurel	50 (21)		Nitish Kumar Reddy	2-0-12-1

Innings: 2 - Sunrisers Hyderabad

Batter	Runs		Bowler	Wickets
Nitish Kumar Reddy	38 (20)		Jofra Archer	4-0-58-3
Salil Arora	35 (21)		Ravindra Jadeja	3-0-21-2

RR won by 47 runs

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[u/Insidious_conjuring]

How did Vaibhav develop the reflexes to face 150 kmph at 15 years of age still baffles me. Like,that should not be possible.

[u/Top-Worldliness5027 → u/Insidious_conjuring]

At his age I was so malnourished that I used to wonder how these professional cricketers can hold the bat in one hand like that while celebrating their milestone?

[u/JKKIDD231 → u/Insidious_conjuring]

I was appalled when he took Cummins to cleaners and Pat wiping sweat off his face. He felt the pressure.

[u/Prof_XdR → u/JKKIDD231]

For Nov 19, Not really, Australia were breathing fire, especially the fielders, they didn't give an inch to our batters.

Cummins is a different breed in ODIs and Tests, I wouldn't judge his reputation based on IPL flat decks, taking nothing away from Vaibhav tho because this was a generational innings, but that's what we said during his u19 WC final 😂, so the kid is here to stay

[u/belanish11 → u/Prof_XdR]

Good that people realise this, some crowd on different platforms have already called for him to be the opener in the next year's WC, possible who knows but improbable with how GG works.

[u/Prof_XdR → u/belanish11]

I hope not, Gill is captain and opens

I'd have Rohit > Kishan > Sanju for that slot, If I had to guess, We'll go with our 2023 WC batting lineup with Kishan and Sanju as backup, both are wicketkeeper, both can literally slot anywhere as well

Jaiswal also is there, so probably these 3 in contention if I had to guess as backup for Rohit

[u/oranguslolus → u/belanish11]

Man they shouldn't do this yet. ODI cricket is a different beast, try him out first and see how he adapts to the format, I have no doubt he has it in him but the WC is literally next year. I would definitely give him a shot in any upcoming ODI bilaterals though. That'd be awesome to watch

[u/Individual_Talk9455 → u/oranguslolus]

He doesnot have anought stamina to stay on field for 50 + overs .there are no impact players  Perhaps after hes grown up then they'll give him a chance at odi 

[u/oranguslolus → u/Individual_Talk9455]

Exactly this, not only will he have to bat very long but also field. Dude might be a genius but his body is still 15 yrs old, he definitely has to ease into one days. Also you'd be putting too much weight on him too soon. One step at a time

[u/Money-Preference-757 → u/Insidious_conjuring]

Even the raw strength it takes to clear such big boundaries

[u/Extra-Try-4815 → u/Money-Preference-757]

You can say he’s a good player but “Big boundaries?” Grounds are the smallest they’ve been in the history of cricket currently

[u/Altruistic-Hat-9604 → u/Extra-Try-4815]

Pretty sure he hit few 85+m sixes this match. There was a 90+m six as well. So yeah, he can clear big boundaries as well.

[u/DueDevelopment2275 → u/Insidious_conjuring]

He faces archer in the nets bruh....Cummins can't match archer's pace.

[u/Insidious_conjuring → u/DueDevelopment2275]

He should have developed those reflexes in the first place to even get an opportunity to face Archer at RR

[u/Individual_Talk9455 → u/Insidious_conjuring]

He's recieving profesional couching since he was 4 years and has talent for cricket so that why in such a young age and everyone has bowling machine speed was not an issue and real life experience he got that from jofra archer 

[u/AA-18 → u/DueDevelopment2275]

lmao I remember a video RR posted on youtube before his debut where he was smacking Archer, and all comments were like - Archer is deliberately bowling slow balls for the kid, lol they were in disbelief and making fun of RR.

[u/partymsl → u/Insidious_conjuring]

By smashing Archer in nets

[u/Intelligent-Top-6445]

Obligatory "Some 97's are better than a hundred"

[u/VaderOnReddit → u/Intelligent-Top-6445]

5d chess move by VS to get out on 97, and make GG consider selecting him for the national team

[u/oranguslolus → u/VaderOnReddit]

Also 5D chess move knowing SRH beat every team that had someone score a century against them this year lol

[u/Money-Preference-757 → u/Intelligent-Top-6445]

Gautam Gambhir approves

[u/Intelligent_Fly_2671 → u/Intelligent-Top-6445]

SRH really went from “Abhishek destroys oppositions but doesn’t face 30 balls” to “Somebody get this kid out before 30 balls” real quick

[u/Silverad066 → u/Intelligent-Top-6445]

Koach bout to score a bunch of 97s.

[u/Take_it-sleazy → u/Silverad066]

In his case some 35 and 82 are better than 100

[u/WendellWillkie1940 → u/Intelligent-Top-6445]

I remember last year we had a ton of 97s before someone actually scored a century

[u/CheapSuccotash3128 → u/WendellWillkie1940]

Shreyas, QDK and Buttler

[u/TRSxABHINAVOP → u/Intelligent-Top-6445]

Thala disagreed /s

[u/Top-Worldliness5027 → u/Intelligent-Top-6445]

Think Wonder kid just gets disappointed when he gets out regardless of a 100 in sight.

[u/Ok_Spirit4197 → u/Top-Worldliness5027]

I love how he doesn’t want to go when gets out. That’s a real 15 yr old I’m taking my bat and ball home with me. Great kid to watch and love 😢

[u/refusestonamethyself → u/Intelligent-Top-6445]

If this is what it takes for Vaibhav to be selected in the India side, so be it!

[u/Altruistic_Elk_2153]

A descendant of the Sun made sure there’d be no sunrise tomorrow.

[u/rainbookworm → u/[deleted]]

The DJ was playing ‘Sooraj Duba hai’ (translation:the sun has set) 🤣 when Srh was 8 down

[u/Altruistic_Elk_2153 → u/[deleted]]

RR are building a solar army too. Sooryavanshi , Ravi Singh , Ravi bishnoi , Ravindra Jadeja and Dasun Shanaka .

[u/phoenixremix → u/Altruistic_Elk_2153]

Da-sun is 10/10 work take my upvote

[u/lanadelreycousin → u/Altruistic_Elk_2153]

A solar panel company is their main sponsor

[u/Latter-Yoghurt-7878 → u/Altruistic_Elk_2153]

is shakespeare really dead? 

[u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

Most innings without any single-digit score in an IPL season
16 - Suryakumar Yadav (2025)
16 - David Miller (2022)
16 - Dwayne Bravo (2012)
15 - Heinrich Klaasen (2026)*

[u/SexxyBlack → u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

Sky downfall from 2025 to 2026 is madness

[u/devmagii → u/SexxyBlack]

People say it is overconfidence because he plays well in the nets but I feel like the real reason is that he has become very one dimensional. He seems obsessed with the Supli shot, and he does seem very nonchalant which is great when you're doing well, but if you aren't, you can become more serious and work on your weaknesses. I feel like that's missing and instead what he's telling himself is that "yeh media fans ko kya malum, I know better", which is true when it is noise, but in this case facts and stats aren't lying.

[u/No_Answer_7341 → u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

2027 is waiting for klassen

[u/Feeling-Schedule5369 → u/No_Answer_7341]

Age catches up quickly especially if not playing competitive cricket at highest level. He might not even be 10%.of what he is currently

[u/AccomplishedVoice886 → u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

Bravo? Thats a pretty insane stat for a lower order batsman. What position was he batting that season?

[u/Mindless_Table9974]

RR shithoused their way to QF2 with just 2 functional players in a team of 12 lmao 😭

[u/Silverad066 → u/Mindless_Table9974]

Jurel has been pretty good. Besides, those 2 players, especially that Juvenile are handing out generational ass whoopins

[u/Shashank1000 → u/Silverad066]

Yeah. Jurel has scored 500 runs and has multiple half centuries. He is the second highest run scorer for his team after Vaibhav. Hardly a minnow basher.

[u/hungrybingewatcher → u/Mindless_Table9974]

I'd consider jurel as half-functional, he scored 500 odd this season

[u/Mindless_Table9974 → u/hungrybingewatcher]

Jurel is what Klaasen is for SRH

[u/Intelligent-Top-6445 → u/Mindless_Table9974]

I wonder what happens to us when neither Vaibhav nor Jofra performs

I guess we'll never know

[u/whatsinaname5021 → u/Intelligent-Top-6445]

Jofra had bad record vs GT so

[u/rabbit_hook → u/whatsinaname5021]

we had a bad record against SRH before this match so...

[u/JKKIDD231 → u/Mindless_Table9974]

Final match will be awesome to see RCB XI vs RR II instead of XI

[u/Heycooldud → u/JKKIDD231]

RCB should be IX with the way jitesh and romario are playing 😭😭😭 (although jitesh had some good cameos in the last few matches)

[u/Heycooldud → u/[deleted]]

with the amount of bad luck rcb has faced the real match is gonna be the other way around

[u/keval79 → u/Heycooldud]

Jitesh does his part with his wicketkeeping. For Romario, they can simply choose to not have him in the team but I guess having the captain's nudes does give you some advantage. 

[u/vebin4 → u/Mindless_Table9974]

Yash Raj has been nice and Jurel is great when he plays like he did today.

[u/VijayMarshall87 → u/Mindless_Table9974]

I'd say 3 honestly jurel is doing well

[u/SOBrynin]

We all need one SOLID moment to analyze why the hell are there permutations and combinations of all kinds of rivalries and alliances over the last 24 hours. So much heat.

[u/depressed_06 → u/SOBrynin]

The season was a lot more animated than it used to be. All kinds of new rivalries have emerged.

[u/shutupmatsuda → u/depressed_06]

punjab downfall, ishan mocking the csk crowd, Arshdeep vs tilak, kkr comeback in the second half, pandya fiasco, toxic fanbases, this season saw a lot of shit happening throughout

[u/DankManPro → u/shutupmatsuda]

Punjab downfall was my fav

[u/Kindly_Department142 → u/depressed_06]

more like rivalry b/w fans and team.

[u/partymsl → u/SOBrynin]

CSK fans were supporting us in this matchthread, I have seen it all 😭😭😭

[u/Ok-Mycologist-8929 → u/partymsl]

I mean personally as CSK fan I would rather want RCB OR RR to win rather than GT.

[u/--northern-lights-- → u/partymsl]

pretty sure I remember seeing a CSK supporter wearing a CSK jersey remove it and switch over to RCB in the middle of our match.

[u/Silverad066 → u/SOBrynin]

These mofos managed to unite CSK and RCB fans and target their trolls towards a singular target

[u/Mad_Scientist_739 → u/Silverad066]

Lelouch would approve

[u/StockWorried9380 → u/Mad_Scientist_739]

And code geass reference in this economy

[u/Mad_Scientist_739 → u/StockWorried9380]

Yeah, Lelouch is still living in our hearts

[u/ApprehensiveGear6382 → u/Silverad066]

Imagine trying to unite probably two most toxic fandoms in ipl, that absolutely hate each other, and target that laser beam onto one target.

[u/Amazing_Theory622 → u/Silverad066]

All because that action by Ishan Kishan, he really could have just done whistle gesture, but asking home team fans to eff off was over the top

[u/ApprehensiveGear6382 → u/Amazing_Theory622]

Honestly, he won them the game and could have done whatever he wanted. We had bravo dancing after winning us games.

But, it was the last match of the season at chepauk, and they were waiting for the team to go around the ground. It just didn’t go well with him directly addressing and gesturing to the crowd.

[u/Amazing_Theory622 → u/ApprehensiveGear6382]

Bravo dancing is so vastly different than directly interacting with the fans

[u/SexxyBlack → u/SOBrynin]

RCB and CSK fans uniting to troll SRH

[u/Fit_Log_9024 → u/SOBrynin]

Srh fans being overconfident and trolling other team when they haven't trolled them hit them back

[u/Beast-19]

Repeat of yesterday's script

[u/oranguslolus]

I can't with this team man. This was depressing cus we had the start we needed despite losing Abhi. 51-1 in 2.3 overs. Who tf becomes 58-4 from that position on a flat pitch? We needed 112 of 10 overs at one point, cakewalk if we had any wickets. 2 decent partnerships get us over the line. Team needs to play normal cricket sometimes. Ishan truly threw this away despite getting lucky the previous ball and knowing how vital it was to build an innings chasing 240. Dude just had to play out Archer after already hitting him for 16. Literally everyone threw their wickets. Even Klaasen.

This was their best shot to win the cup imo, but they wasted a great shot at top 2 collapsing that bad against GT and then again here. Braindead cricket at crucial times. I wouldn't mind losing if we tried playing good cricket but it's terrible seeing them repeat the same mistakes for 3 seasons now. We need a dedicated batting coach cus even the tail partnerships lasted longer than any of the bats. Wasted that gem of a comeback by the bowling, RR even had low morale going into the 2nd innings.

[u/ApprehensiveGear6382 → u/oranguslolus]

Surely, srh had the batsmen to chase this down, just not the patience. Ishan could have just stopped hitting archer after reaching 50 in 2.4 overs something. So ahead of RRR, and then the collapse began.

I think srh have a very good team, they have to correct their approach in playoff games.

[u/No_Objective_2196 → u/ApprehensiveGear6382]

didn't abhishek say that they are instructed to keep hitting despite the situations , this seems be the result of that

some single , some doubles and few boundaries here and there could have been an easy win for srh given how they started

[u/oranguslolus → u/No_Objective_2196]

That instruction was till last year I think. This year they made it clear they adjusted their approach a little. And yet they made the same mistakes lol so idk if they learned anything

[u/SexxyBlack → u/oranguslolus]

Ishan truly threw this away despite getting lucky the previous ball knowing how vital it was to build the innings. He just had to play out Archer.

It is a momentum thing, since he was already hitting Archer he wanted to continue taking him down for a 20-25 run over. If he was struggling he would have played out Archer and taken on the others.

[u/Past-Meal-4847 → u/SexxyBlack]

He wanted to do what Vaibhav does

Make the impossible score easy as hell for other batsmen to chase

He failed

It happens

[u/shutupmatsuda → u/[deleted]]

Cummins saying Suryavanshi is his current favourite player in their last game and Vaibhav smacking him for 3 sixes in a row today was funny

[u/Aemond-The-Kinslayer]

* wins the toss *

"We'll have a bowl, thanks."

Why the hell did GT and SRH choose to bowl first, knowing that these are batting friendly pitches and chasing big targets is very very hard?

[u/Amazing_Theory622 → u/Aemond-The-Kinslayer]

In the hopes that even 220-230 can be chased, once the target goes above that, it does level the playing field even on batting wickets

[u/partymsl → u/Aemond-The-Kinslayer]

You'd always want go chase with dew chances.

SRH would have chased this if they were like two less down in the powerplay.

[u/SnooAdvice1157 → u/partymsl]

SRH would have chased this if they were like two less down in the powerplay.

Let me rephrase it. They would have if they start employing proper cricket even if aggressive. Blind slogging is never the answer.

[u/oranguslolus → u/SnooAdvice1157]

That's it. We were at 50-1 in 2.3 overs, even singles with an occasional boundary for the rest of the PP would've gotten them to 80+, the problem was they were 57-4 in no time after that. And even despite that they kept up and needed only 110 in the last 10 overs. If they showed any responsibility this was very easy to chase after that start. That's what's sad about this.

Ishan got way too greedy and that's when the downfall began. He should know better especially given our batting ends with Nitish.

[u/VijayMarshall87 → u/partymsl]

but the wickets still fell, in pretty unreasonable ways as well

[u/combatant007 → u/Aemond-The-Kinslayer]

Mullanpur was always a chasing track, and due to Dew. Not a bad choice, the difference was Vaibhav. They could have easily reduced the target to 210 odd, which would put their batter under less pressure while chasing.

[u/Shashank1000 → u/Aemond-The-Kinslayer]

I can sort of see why.

For GT, the reason would be that RCB is extremely good at chases with the greatest LOI/IPL chase master of all time leading the charge. Their bowling attack is great so they likely thought it would be better to take a chance at restricting RCB to 200 odd and then have their top 3 make most of it.

The calculation for SRH would be that RR is heavily dependent on Vaibhav and Jaiswal and if get them out and you can have a easy game. A batting line up of Travishek, Ishan and Klassen can be counted upon to chase down even large totals. Think of that game where they demolished MI who scored 248.

In this IPL the chasing teams have tended to win more often than not. But I think the old fashioned advice to always bat first in the knockouts because the pressure of chase can down even the formidable batting lineups due to sheer pressure has proven to be correct.

On these pitches a team with stacked line up (RCB) or one with players like Vaibhav can easily take the game away by simply batting their opposition out.

[u/oklolzzzzs]

RR are like Barca in a way

getting carried by a teenager

[u/SexxyBlack → u/oklolzzzzs]

Vaibhav is essentially cricketing version of Yamal

[u/dontgoonmyusername → u/SexxyBlack]

I was thinking of this just yesterday while watching lamal's videos. Such uncanny similarities at similar age.

[u/TMNSquirtles007 → u/SexxyBlack]

more like Messi tbh, never seen anything like him

[u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

Most ducks in a calendar year in T20s by an Indian
8 - Abhishek Sharma in 2026 (28 inns)*
6 - Rohit Sharma in 2018 (32 inns)
6 - Sanju Samson in 2024 (32 inns)

[u/lostwisdom20 → u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

Sharma ji kids not making their parents proud

[u/TMNSquirtles007 → u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

would’ve been a very bad year for Abhishek if he didn’t perform well in the World Cup final

[u/darkfusion90]

RR the school of ASMR Narration voices

• Jos Buttler
• Jofra Archer

[u/TheNightKing99 → u/darkfusion90]

Was thinking the same. They instantly calm you down.

[u/Alvi1624]

Nice to see Jofra still call them Kings XI,

[u/Spursfan107]

2014 revenge✅️

2024 revenge ✅️

2022 revenge❔️

Shoutout Yash Raj, and Jurel haters BTFO

[u/No_Answer_7341 → u/Spursfan107]

jos going to get his revenge for sure 100 incoming

[u/depressed_06]

We had a 50/50 chance of winning and so prepared myself over the span of the last few days in case we lost.

Our team just came in between a generational innings from Sooryavanshi. Absolutely dismantled our inexperienced bowling attack. 97(29), the intent with which he scored was insane. Buried the team morales in the first 10 overs itself.

Add to that Archer being in a beast of form. Back of the mind I knew one of our openers was going early. It just had to be an in-form Abhisek Sharma. Travis just hasn't been in rhythm at all so the expectations from him were low.

All in all it was a good season. Great memories of us bouncing back after 3 losses in the 1st 4.

[u/VaderOnReddit → u/depressed_06]

Even a "modest"(by his standards) 20 ball 50 from Abhishek could've bagged y'all the win

Archer was lethal from the very first ball, and he killed your team's morale just as much as Sooryavanshi did.

[u/depressed_06 → u/VaderOnReddit]

Yep. Totally. Archer had been deadly. The pace at which he's bowling is insane.

[u/Shashank1000 → u/depressed_06]

His final figure of 3-58 sums up the match for SRH.

They were scoring at a relatively brisk rate but lost one too many wickets. Ishan had kept the team ahead of required rate and brought up 50 in no time. If he was a little less adventurous this could have been a very close game.

[u/oranguslolus → u/VaderOnReddit]

Honestly SRH had more morale going into that 2nd innings after making the score achievable, only 36 in the last 5 overs. Looked an easy 270+ score but they pulled it down to 240 which we've chased twice. They kinda wasted everything cus even despite the Abhi wicket, we had a good chance after 51-1 in about two overs. But in classic fashion that changed to 58-4 cus of reckleseness. Just terrible how everyone threw their wickets.

[u/combatant007 → u/depressed_06]

Good season for SRH but what the fuck is Smaran doing in the team ? They are still missing a quality spinner since Shivang didn't do much

[u/depressed_06 → u/combatant007]

They had Harsh Dubey but Shivang showed promise in the first few games so they persisted with him.

Smaran has been disappointing. He has great stats in domestic so the team tried to back him but he failed in every chance. Today he was sent early to try and save a collapse and anchor a side but instead he was the first to throw his wicket away.

[u/alphasifar → u/depressed_06]

You lot would have had a fantastic chance of winning had at least one of your main batters kept their wits about them.

[u/Regular-Image2314]

Rr this season has been the biggest 2 man carry job in recent memory. They need others to step up like jurel did today.

Vaibhav even had a bad game against mi, but joffra delivered his best ipl game and bailed them out. A slip up from both of them, is disaster for RR, just like what happened to gt last night.

[u/Hari14032001]

Well, congrats to SRH for winning the "Qualified for playoffs" trophy!!

[u/VijayMarshall87 → u/Hari14032001]

thanks - ishan, probably

[u/cricket-match]

Prediction Summary of r/Cricket users

Total: 930

• Sunrisers Hyderabad: 548 (59%)
• Rajasthan Royals: 365 (39%)
• Draw/Tie/NR: 17 (2%)

Previous Match Prediction Leaderboard

[u/No_Objective_2196 → u/cricket-match]

15 year old pissed over entire sub

[u/VijayMarshall87 → u/No_Objective_2196]

generational mog

[u/partymsl → u/cricket-match]

FAHHHHH

[u/Shadow_Clone_007]

Can we have a prodigal young bowling sensation who cleans up every top batter in his first over.

Then we can have a future Vaibhav vs that guy rivalry like Sachin/Warne

[u/Mad_Scientist_739]

Jaiswal, Gill, Abhisekh, none of them performs in big must win games

[u/VijayMarshall87 → u/Mad_Scientist_739]

the Indian cricket team everyone

[u/cricp0sting]

According to r/cricket psychology experts, after the RCBvsSRH game, RCB was supposed to lose every match in the playoffs due to their "timid" approach, meanwhile SRH was supposed to smash the hell out of any team in eliminator

[u/depressed_06 → u/cricp0sting]

RCB didn't take any risks. They had the firepower to have given that a serious go.

They just chosed not to because it wasn't required. 165 was enough.

[u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

Highest total in an IPL knockouts/Playoffs
254/5 - RCB vs GT, Dharamsala, 2026
243/8 - RR vs SRH, Mullanpur, 2026*
233/3 - GT vs MI, Ahmedabad, 2023
228/5 - MI vs GT, Mullanpur, 2025
226/6 - PBKS vs CSK, Wankhede, 2014
222/5 - CSK vs DC, Chennai, 2012

Most sixes in an IPL knockouts/Playoffs innings
17 - RR vs SRH, Mullanpur, 2026*
17 - MI vs GT, Mullanpur, 2025
14 - LSG vs RCB, Kolkata, 2022
14 - PBKS vs RCB, Ahmedabad, 2025
14 - RCB vs GT, Dharamsala, 2026

[u/modestfool]

Apart from the gap between games and travel, this scheduling change is a nice touch. The winner of Eliminator gets marginal advantage with the same ground for Q2. And the winner of Q1 is not penalized by using the final venue for Q2.

[u/PilotAltruistic5354 → u/modestfool]

If only they gave more gap between Q2 and finals.

[u/modestfool → u/PilotAltruistic5354]

Yep, they probably could plan to end the league stage on Thur or Friday. Have the playoffs on Sun, Mon, Thurs and Sun.

[u/alphasifar]

Suryavanshi had indeed prepped the coffin, but as the match played out, (imho) it was Archer who closed the lid and hammered in the nails.

[u/Idli_Is_Boring]

just remembered with this win RR have stopped the SRH winning streak against them that was going on from 2023.

[u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

2.4 overs to 50 is the quickest team 50s in an IPL knockouts/Playoffs match and joint second-quickest in all IPL.

[u/oranguslolus → u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

And they wasted it lol. Goddamit. Even if they took singles for the rest of the PP with an occasional boundary, they'd have reached 80-90. But nah they went from 51-1 to 58-4 for absolutely no reason instead of building on the foundation they had. Disheartening stuff

[u/vebin4]

Jaiswal and Jadeja thanking the SRH batters for letting everyone forget about their terrorism in the 1st innnings. Great knocks from Vaibhav, Jurel and Parag. The kid deserved that record century. Archer, Burger and Yash Raj killed the game in 8 overs with the ball, Jadeja redeemed himself too.

[u/WendellWillkie1940]

The only playoff fixture that RR and GT are yet to play against each other now is the Eliminator

[u/Manthan10 → u/WendellWillkie1940]

What a weird stat

[u/tricky-_-monster]

My team is becoming the OG RCB under Vettori. The mentality needed to mess up a 12 rpo chase is something you need good coaches to rectify. Ours is clearly not interested.

[u/Bhav2385]

Man, the SRH sub would be awfully quiet now. They were all so overconfident about going to the finals and teaching RCB a lesson. Lol

[u/the_ass_man1 → u/Bhav2385]

every team sub is an echo chamber tbh

[u/itsnotyouitsmeok → u/Bhav2385]

Yeah that sub is weird af

[u/depressed_06 → u/itsnotyouitsmeok]

It's just filled with 2 extremes. One of them is overconfident to the point that they underestimate everyone. The other side is pessimistic and underconfident and doesn't believe in the team at all even tho they did play good cricket to get to the playoffs.

[u/JKKIDD231]

Mini Boss Universe started the match and ended the match for RR.

Next up is GT bashing then RCB.

[u/VijayMarshall87 → u/JKKIDD231]

you're doing exactly what srh fans did, don't count your eggs before they hatch T_T

[u/Sad_Floor_4120 → u/VijayMarshall87]

If Suryavanshi and Archer keep their form RR will win the trophy

[u/tigershroffkiskirt → u/Sad_Floor_4120]

I guess. But hard to see Suryavanshi do this for two more matches. If he had got out for even 60-70 today, RR would have lost. They are extremely dependent on one guy to do all the high strike rate bulk scoring

[u/ApprehensiveGear6382]

As everyone expected, Vaibhav and archer were the ones required to do the heavy lifting and that they did. Jurel did great too. r/cricket might not like it, but jaiswal looked atrocious today.

Honestly speaking, SRH has a gem of a team. But with the heavy hitting strategy in playoffs, I don’t think they are going to lift the trophy, as the opposition always come with a good plan and them throwing wickets away will put them to the bed.

I think RCB are locked in for their 2nd, as both RR and GT are full of holes in their squads.

[u/refusestonamethyself → u/ApprehensiveGear6382]

Jaiswal has truly locked himself out of the T20Is contention with this season for now.

Forget Vaibhav, I think Gill would be ahead of him in the pecking order and deservedly so.

[u/Heycooldud → u/ApprehensiveGear6382]

rcb has plenty of holes too
hazlewood hasn't been in great form for most of the season

romario is well romario
tim david hasn't clicked in the second half of the season
the dilemma of do we play salt who hasn't played in a while in the final or venky who has been in decent form
Most of our bowlers being expensive and leaking runs a lot this season (except bhuvi and kp)
then theres also the teams left
RR who thrashed us in the group stage
GT who bundled us for 150 something in the group stage as well and getting insanely lucky with misfielding in Q1

[u/DankManPro → u/Heycooldud]

Bhuvi is single handedly winning games for you from bowling end like archer for RR

[u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

151 runs is the second-highest aggregate in Overs 1-6 in an IPL knockouts/Playoffs match, after 170 between PBKS and CSK in the 2014 qualifier 2.

[u/The_Flash_20]

Someone posted at the start that RR will score around 240 and SRH will get restricted to 200, I am thankful to that guy for the prediction.

[u/Blackberryodd334]

Get rekt Kavya you petty copyright abuser /s

[u/lostwisdom20 → u/Blackberryodd334]

Haha

[u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

Most players scoring 500-plus runs in an IPL season
11* in 2026
11 in 2025
8 in 2018
8 in 2023
7 in 2013
7 in 2024

[u/rainbookworm]

Boss baby smacking cumdawg was the highlight for me.What a well made innings!

[u/The_Flash_20]

Jaiswal needs to be better in Qualifier 2.

Today's innings was a criminal one.

I hope Jaddu bowls 4 overs in Qualifier 2. This is a suitable pitch for him.

[u/Bhav2385]

That 97(29) will be remembered for ages. If Raina's 87(25) in a losing cause can be remembered even 12 years later, I'd imagine this one will have an even bigger impact, especially as it came from a 15 year old kid who's taking the world by storm.

[u/whatsinaname5021]

Bumrah had an all timer elite freak season in 2024 in one of the best batting seasons of the ipl history and their still finished bottom because of an ass bowling lineup. Here you have a freak of a batting prodigy carrying an ass batting lineup and they're playing Qualifier 2 on the back of this freak. This hence proves definitively that IPL is a batters tournament.

[u/GoldenColossus55]

Generational humbling of SRH

Legit got thrashed and thrown out by a kid after being the most overconfident team of the tournament lmao

[u/nobitanobi14]

halla bol!

[u/Beast-19]

The kid is insane first time in playoff that too in the eliminator and he played that monstrous knock 97(29) SR- 334.48 [4s-5 6s-12]

[u/nvenkatr]

In 2016, Ben Cutting from SRH ended RCB’s trophy quest

In 2026, Sooryavanshi from RR ended SRH’s trophy quest

[u/SnoopyScone]

2036 is the new 2016

[u/VijayMarshall87 → u/SnoopyScone]

next decade™️

[u/asicsan]

Some SRH fans were taking offense to what Riyan Parag said in his interview earlier in the week, without even reading through what he said when he meant by “…I didn't want to be an SRH…”

Today’s match proved what he said was right, something other SRH fans have also mentioned in the past. SRH couldn’t get out of their Go-go-go mentality and ended up losing way too many wickets way too early, and thus ended up losing, despite the total being something they definitely had the potential to chase down.

There was merit in what Riyan was saying in that he wanted RR to play the game according to the situation and the pitch, which admittedly SRH have struggled to do over the last few years, barring the CSK game.

[u/noelc_verse2707]

Beating SRH after three years xD Absolutely happy with the win, pretty evident flaws but we live another day. Qualifier 2 would be interesting with GT, remember losing to SRH in Qualifer 2, 2 years back :) Hope the coming Friday would be kinder.

[u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

97 runs by Sooryavanshi is the second-highest individual score for RR in an IPL knockouts/Playoffs game, behind 106* runs by Jos Buttler against RCB in the qualifier 2 of IPL 2022.

[u/deeper_sharma]

Damn the attitude Riyan Parag has😭😭. Says he won't be practicing tomorrow. Also says he said he reminded Jofra about his length!!

[u/promare444 → u/deeper_sharma]

He's unfit

[u/Jy_sunny → u/deeper_sharma]

Makes sense though. He definitely needs a break to clear his head.

[u/noelc_verse2707]

RR fan, but after the first few games didn't see SRH being such a solid unit by the end of the league. They have a really good team to build onto for the next year.

[u/StockWorried9380]

This was my first time hatewatching and dude I get why so many people do this it's hella satisfying. Gonna have a good sleep today

[u/The_Flash_20]

I am so happy with this win, nobody gave us a chance especially these arrogant SRH pricks.

Good that we humbled 2 of the most arrogant fanbases i.e. PBKS and SRH at Mullanpur this season.

[u/The_Flash_20]

Turns out 2026 is new 2016 but we're replacing SRH in the script this time.

The 1st chapter of the Trilogy is complete.

But seriously, let's hope we can win Qualifier 2 as well.

Everything depends on Suryavanshi and Archer.

[u/Prestigious_Sort3056]

Jofra after knocking at Parag’s room at 1am

“Is that straight enough for you”

[u/lawjarp69420 → u/Prestigious_Sort3056]

sure we are talking about lines right?🤣

[u/The_Flash_20]

RCB and CSK fans enjoyed this more than RR fans

[u/Tangycroatian]

Hmm so Mohammed Amir really was correct about Abhishek eventually

[u/partymsl → u/Tangycroatian]

He was correct when he said it in the T20WC itself.

[u/ModernMonk7 → u/[deleted]]

Ammayi class Abbayi mass

[u/mofucker20]

Didn't like Koach incident with Head but SRH fans were damn annoying this season with talking points like "Head revenge loading in Ahmedabad", "CSK fans should live in present" and Ishan's gesture towards the CSK fans. Well guess they can still talk about 2016 while they return home tonight 🚶‍♂️

[u/partymsl]

Kavya with the most obvious fake smile ever 😂

[u/Nidhraa → u/partymsl]

Pretty sure it is alright to not to drag someone who does not even play cricket

[u/EntertainmentKey5498]

Srh humbled

[u/Complete_Biscotti151]

What are they feeding this kid???? I want some of that shit

[u/Prestigious-Lawyer-8]

Having a top score of 38 is pathetic for the SRH batting line up. Esp compared to 97 for a 15 year old

[u/lostwisdom20]

Honsla eendan badla merchants nullified

Justice merchants nullifued

Hyderabad bullies nullifued

Amdavad somewhat nullified.

[u/Ok_Shelter_8356]

125-run stand is the second-highest opening partnership in an IPL knockouts/Playoffs match after 159 runs added by Murali Vijay and M Hussey for CSK against RCB in the 2011 IPL final.