Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) are locking horns with each other in their opening game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. After winning the toss, SRH’s stand-in skipper, Bhuvneshwar Kumar decided to bowl first. Adil Rashid, Mayank Agarwal, Harry Brook, and Glenn Phillips all made their SRH debuts. Jason Holder and KM Asif received their first caps for RR.
RR got off to a fiery start owing to Yashasvi Jaiswal’s 54 in 37 balls and Jos Buttler’s 54 off 22 balls, as the duo added 85 runs in powerplay overs. Sanju Samson then joined the party to smash 55 off 32 balls. However, the SRH bowlers reined in the run-scoring with the wickets of Devdutt Padikkal and Riyan Parag.
Shimron Hetmyer’s 16-ball 22* helped RR finish to reach a huge total of 203/5 in 20 overs with Fazalhaq Farooqui and T Natarajan picking a couple of wickets apiece.
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RR would have hoped for a fiery start with the ball while Mayank Agarwal and Abhishek Sharma opened for SRH. Trent Boult gave RR the perfect start with the wicket of Sharma on the third ball of the first over and then also dismissed dangerous Rahul Tripathi, but the credit should go to Jason Holder.
Tripathi came down the ground to Boult who had bowled the ball a bit full and wide after seeing him step down the wicket. Tripathi tried to nudge it past or over the slips and opened the face of his bat. But the ball took the edge and flew to the left of slip fielder Jason Holder.
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Holder flung himself to his left and held onto a spectacular catch, as his reaction and everyone else’s said. Rahul Tripathi reviewed the dismissal for a bump ball, but the replays showed that it was a genuine edge and the catch was clean.
Here is the video of the catch by Jason Holder:
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A shaky start to #SRH's chase as they lose Abhishek Sharma & Rahul Tripathi in the first over of the chase!
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