Hyderabad XI vs Rajasthan XI 40th Match at Dubai, 27 Sep, 2021

Toss: Rajasthan, who chose to bat
Rajasthan XI 164/5 (20)
Hyderabad XI 167/3 (18.3)
Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 7 wickets
Man of the Match: Jason Roy
  • Abhishek Sharma 21 * (16)
  • Kane Williamson 51 * (41)

Over 3.1 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a back of length delivery to Jason Roy, no run, gets forward and  looks to punch on the up but ends up with a thick outside-edge to backward point

Over 3.2 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a pitched up delivery to Jason Roy, no run, gets back in the crease and  sliced straight to mid-off

Over 3.3 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a pitched up delivery to Jason Roy, Boundary! Moves across in the crease and clips it down to the fine leg fence for four.

Over 3.4 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a good length delivery to Jason Roy, 4 byes Samson's a tad lazy in going down, with the ball sneaking under his gloves and through his legs

Over 3.5 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a pitched up delivery to Jason Roy, Boundary! Step away and then carve this over extra cover for four.

Over 3.6 Mustafizur Rahman bowls it short of length to Jason Roy,1 run, gets back in the crease and cut hard and straight to cover

Over 12.1: No runs. Mustafizur Rahman to Kane Williamson,

Over 12.2: No runs. Mustafizur Rahman to Kane Williamson,

Over 12.3: Boundary!. Mustafizur Rahman to Kane Williamson,

Over 12.4: No runs. Mustafizur Rahman to Kane Williamson,

Over 12.5: Single. Mustafizur Rahman to Kane Williamson,

Over 12.6: He is Caught. Mustafizur Rahman to Kane Williamson,

Over 16.1 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a pitched up delivery to Abhishek Sharma, no run, gets forward and  drives and chips it off the upper half to the right of the bowler

Over 16.2 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a good length delivery to Abhishek Sharma, no run,  opens the bat face and drives the fullish delivery to the right of backward point. 

Over 16.3 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a good length delivery to Abhishek Sharma,1 run, gets forward and flick away behind square on the leg-side

Over 16.4 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a slower one to Kane Williamson, no run, gets forward and drive to the right of extra cover

Over 16.4 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a slower one to Kane Williamson, no run, gets forward and drive to the right of extra cover

Over 16.5 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a pitched up delivery to Kane Williamson,1 run, gets forward and  driven firmly off the strong bottom hand down to long-off

Over 16.6 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a good length delivery to Abhishek Sharma,1 run, came down the pitch before turning back to make his crease at the batting end. 

Over 18.1 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a pitched up delivery to Kane Williamson, no run, gets forward and drives it to extra cover with the toe end of the bat.

Over 18.2 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a pitched up delivery to Kane Williamson, Boundary! Moves on the off-side and  just allows the ball to dip and whip-flicks it in the gap wide of mid-wicket

Over 18.3 Mustafizur Rahman bowls a pitched up delivery to Kane Williamson, Boundary! Came down the track and hammered away over mid-wicket  and gets the winning runs with a boundary.

Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 7 wickets

Sanju Samson (RR): I think it was a decent score. The wicket was a bit sticky, they were bowling well. We could have got 10-20 runs more. On a sticky wicket once you get a start you need to keep on going. I wanted to keep going after the powerplay but we kept losing wickets, so I wanted to stick on and have a partnership. We wanted to put on a respectable total to fight back. But we got what we had targetted after the timeout. We need to work on bowling and batting. We need to be at our best every ball and execute well. We needed to lift our standards.

K Williamson (SRH): "Good feeling. We can say the performance was improved. There was clarity in roles too. Good to be on the right side. Want to build on this, want to see the younger players take their opportunity and enjoy the cricket. Last two overs with the ball were critical. Sanju batted outstanding and they were looking to score more but we managed to close them into a par-ish total. And then the partnership with the bat up top. We weathered the storms against the slower bowlers."

Jason Roy, Player of the Match: