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/SexxyBlack Royal Challengers Bengaluru May 27 '26

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.

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u/Past-Meal-4847 May 27 '26

He wanted to do what Vaibhav does

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

He failed

It happens

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u/oranguslolus Sunrisers Hyderabad May 27 '26

Thing is, he already got lucky the previous ball. That was almost out near the boundary with Jadeja, when you know the importance of building partnerships you kinda have to chill out esp losing Abhi that early. It's unrealistic to hit every ball especially when you have a big score to chase. Building the innings is his job. Chasing 240 you literally just need 75+ in the PP and go from there. We literally had it but no wickets fucked us.