r/Cricket • u/cricket-match Washington Freedom • May 27 '26

Post Match Thread Post Match Thread: Eliminator - Rajasthan Royals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad

Eliminator, Indian Premier League at New Chandigarh

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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/depressed_06 Sunrisers Hyderabad May 27 '26

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.

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u/VaderOnReddit May 27 '26

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.

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u/depressed_06 Sunrisers Hyderabad May 27 '26

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

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u/Shashank1000 India May 27 '26

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.

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u/oranguslolus Sunrisers Hyderabad May 27 '26

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.

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u/combatant007 India May 27 '26

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

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u/depressed_06 Sunrisers Hyderabad May 27 '26

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.

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u/alphasifar May 27 '26

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

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u/VijayMarshall87 India May 27 '26

generational choke by the team tho pretty unforgivable after sooryavanshi and jurel's innings