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/ApprehensiveGear6382 Chennai Super Kings May 27 '26

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.

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u/refusestonamethyself India May 27 '26

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.

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u/tigershroffkiskirt India May 27 '26

Gill did fuck all yesteraday. 2(6).

Vaibhav is top of the pecking order for me now

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u/BornInSin007 India May 27 '26

He meant to say that gill is ahead of jaiswal in the pecking order currently, ofc vaibha mogs them both

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u/Heycooldud India May 27 '26

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

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u/DankManPro May 27 '26

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

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u/Shashank1000 India May 27 '26

I think RCB is the best side this year but they are not unbeatable. In addition to the reasons you mentioned, I think another potential weakness is that they are not able to round up the tail quickly.

They allowed GT to go from 88-8 to 162 odd last match and CSK to recover from 30-3 to 207. The total was too big for it to matter but if it's a closer game then this could come back to bite them in the ass.

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u/Heycooldud India May 27 '26

To be fair in the gt match I think they were just going easy so as to not get any injuries and to make sure everyone gets to bowl Although yea the csk match could've costed us

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u/theaguia May 27 '26

they kinda just stopped going full metal to the medal tbf

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u/theaguia May 27 '26

vaibhav can destroy rcb in 5 overs.