By Admin 
Sunrisers Hyderabad has defeated Rajasthan Royals by a huge margin of 57 runs. Praful Hinge, who made his debut for SRH, took 4 valuable wickets while bowling the match-winner. Praful laid the foundation of Hyderabad’s victory by taking the wickets of Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel and Luan Dre Pretorius in the very first over of the innings. Ishan Kishan also contributed to Hyderabad’s big victory by playing an inning of 91 runs.
Sunrisers Hyderabad team came to bat first after losing the toss. Both the openers in the form of Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head had flopped, but captain Ishan Kishan showed his strength and played an inning of 91 runs in 44 balls. Heinrich Klaasen scored 40 runs. Nitish Kumar Reddy and Salil Arora also played short but important innings to take SRH to the score of 216.
Praful and Saqib wreaked havoc
Sunrisers Hyderabad had given debut opportunity to both Praful Hinge and Saqib Hussain in this match. Prafulla opened the innings and dismissed Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel and Luan Dry Pretorius in the very first over. These three batsmen could not even open their account. When the second over came, Saqib Hussain also dismissed Yashasvi Jaiswal in the very first over of his IPL career. Rajasthan had lost 4 wickets at the score of 2 runs.
Praful’s havoc had not stopped yet, because in the second over of his spell, he also dismissed captain Riyan Parag, who could score only 4 runs. By the time the score was only 9 runs, half of the Rajasthan team had returned to the pavilion. Meanwhile, Ravindra Jadeja and Donovan Ferreira saved RR from defeat by a huge margin by making a partnership of 118 runs or rather, saved the team’s net run rate from weakening too much. Jadeja scored 45 runs and Ferreira scored 69 runs.
Rajasthan’s top order was destroyed by Praful Hinge and the lower order batsmen were destroyed by Saqib Hussain. Praful and Saqib both took 4-4 wickets in the match. Ishan Malinga took the remaining 2 wickets.