IPL 2023: Abdul Samad's last ball six pulls off a miracle win for Sunrisers Hyderabad against RR in Jaipur
This is about the 52nd match of ipl 2023 where the two strong teams RR (3rd position) and SRH (10 position) were fighting in the Sawai Mannsingh stadium ,Jaipur. RR is fighting to consolidate his position for the race of playoffs whereas SRH is fighting to increase his confidence so that they make a strong comeback in next Ipl.
Match started with RR wining the toss and elected to bat first. The Rajasthan opener's gave a solid start of 54 runs in 29 bowls. The Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal got out by Macro Jansen. Yashasvi scored 35 off 18 balls. But after Yashasvi , the RR captain came and played a wonderful inning with jos buttler. They both added 138 runs to the score card which help rajasthan to cross 200 marks. Jos buttler missed his century by 5 runs. Buttler was got out by a worderful yorker of Bhuvneswar kumar. He played a wonderful inning of 95 in just 59 balls with 10 fours ans 4 sixes. RR captain sanju samson played a good inning of 66 in 38 balls with 4 fours and 5 sixes. A target of 214 -2 had been set by RR.
Now a huge target of 215 was standing in front of SRH. Both the openers of Rajasthan was uncapped players and having less experience of international cricket. But both openers gave a good start of 51 in 35 balls. But in last ball of powerplay anmolpreet got out by the Chahal. But at one end Abhishek sharma who was in a brillant form striking with good strike rate. He and Rahul tripathi was dealing with boundaries. Abhishek scored a brilliant fifty in 33 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes. But in next delivery he got out by Ashwin. After Abhishek innings, Klassen came and played quick innings of 26 runs in 12 balls. But he got out by chahal at the score of 157.Rahul triphati(47 off 29) was also playing at one end but he caught out by jaiswal at boundary line in the over of chachal.In the same over SRH captain Aiden markram(6 off 5) got out by chahal. Now the SRH was in big trouble , they required 41 runs in 12 balls with both the batsman new at a crease.
Now , Glenn Phillips played an incredible inning of 25 off 7 balls . In this innings he struck 3 sixes and 1 fours in 5 balls of Kuldip Yadav's over but he caught out by Hetmyer in the same over. Now in the last over SRH required 17 Runs. 17 off the last over. Sandeep Sharma has been given the ball. He defended 21 against MSD and Ravi Jadeja at Chepauk . This time he's got 17 in the bank.
In the first ball, Abdul Samad score 2 runs. 15 off the 5 balls. In the next ball, Samad hits the ball for six. Now they required 9 off the 4 balls. Samad scored 2,1,1 in next three deliveries. 5 off the 1 balls was required. Sandeep Sharma bowled a brilliant delivery in which Samad was caught on long on in trying to hit six. But the umpires confirmed it was a no ball . Now SRH got a golden opportunity to win this match and the same thing happened . Abdul Samad hit the next delivery for six over the bowler's head.
This match was a miracle for the SRH as the won the match with the help of luck. They won this match by 4 wickets.