New Delhi, Despite the brilliant innings of Rovman Powell (27) after Yashasvi Jaiswal (67), Riyan Parag (77), Bhuvneshwar Kumar ruined the innings of these three batsmen and Sunrisers Hyderabad won the Indian Premier League (IPL) against Rajasthan Royals on Thursday. ) won by 1 run on the last ball in the 50th match of 2024.

In the 50th match of this season played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, host Hyderabad won the toss and batted first and scored 201/3 and then restricted Rajasthan to 200 runs for seven wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. This is Hyderabad's sixth win in 10 matches and now the team has 12 points. With this, Hyderabad has made its place in the top-4 in the points table of IPL 2024. Rajasthan Royals have faced their second defeat in 10 matches. The team currently has 16 points and is still at number one in the points table.

Rajasthan, which set out to chase the target of 202 runs from Hyderabad, had a very poor start and Bhuvneshwar Kumar sent Jos Buttler (0) and captain Sanju Samson (0) to the pavilion in the very first over. But after this, two young batsmen Jaiswal and Parag made Hyderabad away from the match by making a partnership of 134 runs in 78 balls for the third wicket. Rajasthan got its third blow at the score of 135, when T Natarajan bowled Jaiswal.

Jaiswal hit seven fours and two sixes in 40 balls. After his dismissal, Parag also became the victim of captain Pat Cummins in the 16th over. He hit eight fours and four sixes in 49 balls. When Parag was out, Rajasthan needed 43 runs in 25 balls to win and the pair of Shimron Hetmyer and Rovman Powell were at the crease. But Natarajan gave the fifth blow to Rajasthan by dismissing Hetmyer in the 18th over.

Rajasthan had to score 20 runs in the last two overs to win and Pat Cummins gave the sixth blow to the visiting team by sending Dhruv Jurel (1) to the pavilion. In the last over, Rajasthan had to score 13 runs to win and the ball was in the hands of Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Taking full advantage of his experience, Bhuvi conceded only one four in this over. Rajasthan needed two runs to win on the last ball and Bhuvneshwar gave a thrilling victory to Hyderabad by 1 run by LBWing Powell.

For Sunrisers Hyderabad, Bhuvneshwar Kumar took three wickets and T Natarajan and captain Pat Cummins took two wickets each.
Earlier, Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and batted first and scored a huge score of 201 runs for three wickets. Nitish Reddy and Travis Head scored stormy fifties for the host team. Both the batsmen made a brilliant partnership of 96 runs in 57 balls for the third wicket. Head scored 57 runs in 44 balls with the help of six fours and three sixes.

Reddy played an unbeaten inning of 76 runs in 42 balls with the help of three fours and eight sixes. Apart from them, Abhishek Sharma scored 12 runs and Heinrich Klaasen scored unbeaten 42 runs in 19 balls with the help of three fours and three sixes. Reddy and Klaasen made a quick partnership of 70 runs in just 32 balls for the fourth wicket. For Rajasthan Royals, Avesh Khan took two wickets and Sandeep Sharma took one wicket.