RR vs SRH Highlights: Phillips, Samad turn HEROES as Sunrisers Hyderabad Thump Rajasthan Royals in last ball Thriller, Follow IPL 2023 LIVE

RR vs SRH Highlights: Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad played out a thrilling contest in a group-stage encounter of the Indian Premier League 2023. Chasing 215 to win, SRH looked down and out but Glenn Phillips and Abdul Samad had other plans as the latter went on to hit the winning runs for the Orange Army against Sandeep Sharma on the last ball of the match. Follow IPL 2023 LIVE updates with InsideSport.IN

Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (c), Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Glenn Phillips, Marco Jansen, Abdul Samad, Vivrant Sharma, Mayank Markande, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan

Rajasthan Royals Playing XI: Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson (c and wk), Joe Root, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Murugan Ashwin, Sandeep Sharma, Kuldip Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal

Impact Players:

Rajasthan Royals: Devdutt Padikkal, Riyan Parag, Jason Holder, Obed McCoy, Adam Zampa.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Harry Brook, Anmolpreet Singh, Mayank Dagar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Sanvir Singh.

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WHAT. A. GAME 😱😱

Abdul Samad wins it for the @SunRisers as he hits a maximum off the final delivery. #SRH win by 4 wickets.

Scorecard – https://t.co/1EMWKvcgh9 #TATAIPL #RRvSRH #IPL2023 pic.twitter.com/yh0WVMEbOz
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 7, 2023

Chasing an improbable 215 for the win, Sunrisers got off to a decent start courtesy of their impact player Anmolpreet Singh who scored 33 off 25 balls. Abhishek Sharma scored a brilliant 55 off 34 balls. Rahul Tripathi scored 47 off 29 balls. Heinrich Klaasen looked good while he was there for his 26 off 12 balls. Glenn Phillips brought SRH back in the game with his breath-taking 25 off 7 balls. Abdul Samad finished things off in style as he stayed unbeaten on 17* off 7 balls as SRH got the victory off the final ball with 4 wickets in hand.

Yuzvendra Chahal was the pick of the bowlers for Rajasthan Royals with figures of 4/29 in 4 overs. A wicket to Ravichandran Ashwin and Kuldip Yadav who was taken to the cleaners. It was a tough day for the bowlers to say the least as over 400 runs were scored today.

Earlier in the game, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided to bat first. It was the Yashasvi Jaiswal show initially in the powerplay as he scored a quickfire 35 off 18 balls. After his departure, it was the Jos Buttler show as he scored an amazing 95 off 59 balls as the Boss got his form back. He was ably supported by skipper Sanju Samson who scored an unbeaten 66* off 38 balls. Hetmyer was unbeaten on 7* off 5 balls as Rajasthan ended with 214/2 in 20 overs.