SRH vs RR Highlights Qualifier 2, IPL 2024: Sunrisers Hyderabad beats Rajasthan Royals by 36 runs; to face KKR in final

That’s it then! We have just two teams left in the fray after more than two months of non-stop action. A clinical bowling performance by Sunrisers Hyderabad has ensured it will face Kolkata Knight Riders in the summit clash on May 26 in Chennai. 

While RR’s bowlers were on the money, restricting a power-packed SRH to just 175/9. But then, RR didn’t have the arsenal in the middle-order to tackle spin when the dew didn’t materialise at Chepauk. 

Low full toss from Natarajan and Jurel can only put it away as far as the long-on fielder and again doesn’t take a single. FOUR! Jurel has flicks this to the boundary through the wide long-on region. Another couple of dot balls to follow and the SRH players are celebrating in the dugout. Third dot ball in a row. Just four runs off five balls in the last over so far. Miscued pull and just a leg-bye to end the match. SRH wins by 36 runs. 

FOUR! Jurel pulls this to the fine-leg boundary to start the over as Cummins continues. FOUR! Shortish and a flat pull by Jurel to send the ball to the square-leg boundary. This is put away in the deep at midwicket by Jurel but he doesn’t take the single. Pulled to deep square-leg and Jurel again doesn’t run. RR needs 44 from eight balls. Slower bouncer and Jurel takes evasive action. Not called a wide and Jurel goes upstairs. The TV umpire rules that is going over the batter’s head and decision overturned to a wide. Pulled to deep fine-leg for a single by Jurel. Dot ball to end the over. 

53 runs to win from 18 balls. Natarajan is back. Slower bouncer, Parag misses the pull and the ball seems to have hit his neck. He is down on the ground. He is okay to continue now. He drills the next one to long-on for a single. Slower bouncer again and Powell pulls and misses. OUT! Pulled again by Powell and this time he is caught at deep midwicket. That’s the game then? 

Another slower one and Trent Boult swings and misses. 

Rovman Powell c Abhishek Sharma b T. Natarajan 6 (12b)

Cummins is back. Pulled away by Powell for a single. SIX! Whipped off the pads by Jurel, excellent attempt by Tripathi to save the maximum, but he stepped on the cushion while trying to parry it back. Slower bouncer next up and Jurel misses the pull. Another pull by Powell but it only yields a single. Short again and pulled away again for just a single by Jurel to end the over. 

Abhishek bowls out. FOUR! Tossed up outside off and driven through cover by Jurel for a boundary. Flicked through midwicket for a single by Jurel. Carved to point and Powell steals a single on the overthrow. FOUR! Drilled down the ground by Jurel for another boundary to end the over. 

Shahbaz is back. A couple of dot balls to start the over as Powell doesn’t look anything like comfortable against spin. Shorter and cut away by Powell for a single. FOUR! Authoritative reverse-sweep by Jurel and he finds the boundary behind point. FOUR! Jurel makes room and lofts this over extra-cover for another boundary. 

Full toss outside leg by Abhishek and Hetmyer misses it completely. OUT! Hetmyer is clean bowled trying to punch this one, that spins away, off the back foot and Abhishek has another one. Rovman Powell is the next one in. 

Markram into the attack. The balls slips out of Markram’s hand and lands close to short fine-leg; called a no-ball. Hetmyer absolutely throws a review away. Missed a wild slash outside off and the ball is still well within the tramline. SIX! Jurel steps out and clears the fence at deep midwicket. 

Shahbaz Ahmed stays in the attack. Shahbaz to Parag, OUT! Rajasthan is falling like a pack of cards here! Parag plays a reckless aerial shot and an outside-edge-induced catch was taken by Abhishek Sharma at deep mid-wicket. 

Riyan Parag c Abhishek Sharma b Shahbaz Ahmed 6(10)

OUT! Ravichandran Ashwin has come ahead of Powell and he departs for a three-ball duck! SRH is on top here! Ashwin edged it to keeper Klaasen as half of the RR players are back in the hut. Impact sub, Hetmyer comes in at no. six. 

Ashwin c Klaasen b Shahbaz Ahmed 0 (3)

Another quiet over as Abhishek Sharma gone for only 6 runs.

Shahbaz Ahmed continues. He bowled a terrific over to give just three runs from his over as the required run rate has jumped near 11 rpo. 

Spin from both ends. Abhishek Sharma in place of Unadkat. Abhishek to Samson, OUT! What a big wicket. Bad timing for RR which lose its skipper at the wrong time. Abhishek keeps it short and flat, Samson pulls it but it goes to Aiden Markram. 

Samson c Markram b Abhishek Sharma 10(11)

Dhruv Jurel gets off the mark with a single off the last delivery. 

Shahbaz Ahmed in the attack. Samson takes a single to keep in-form Jaiswal on strike. Shahbaz to Jaiswal, SIX! Jaiswal brings out a reverse sweep, a kind of switch hit that sails over the deep backward point. He has hurt his hamstring in the process. Shahbaz to Jaiswal, OUT! A wicket against the run of play. A miscued shot, in an attempt to hit for another maximum, goes straight to Abdul Samad at long-off. A big scalp for Shahbaz. 

Kohler-Cadmore c Tripathi b Cummins 10(16)

Riyan Parag, in at no. four gets off the mark with a single. 

Jaydev Unadkat comes into the attack for Natarajan. Unadkat uses his pace and line well to give just three singles and a wide from the first five deliveries. Just five runs from this over. SRH in need of quick wickets now. 

Change of ends for Buvneshwar Kumar. Bhuvneshwar to Jaiswal, SIX! It is as good as it can be from Jaiswal. Jaiswal pounces on the short ball to dispatch it over long-on for a maximum. FOUR! This time down the ground for a straight boundary. FOUR! The third boundary of the over, this time he brings out his drive against a slower delivery. FOUR! Fourth boundary of the over and Jaiswal carves it on offside to take RR to 50. He keeps the strike with a single. RR 51/1 in 6 overs.

T. Natarajan comes in place of Bhuvneshwar Kumar. The new man in, Sanju Samson gets off the mark with a glorious on drive for a double. Natarajan follows it up with two dots before delivering a short ball for wide. Natarajan to Samson, FOUR! Cracking shot on off-side. Short and towards the middle line, Samson cuts it with precision to end the over with a boundary. 

Pat Cummins continues. TKC’s struggle continues. He is feeling the heat, quite literally. Has taken two breaks to wipe his sweat off as he played three consecutive dots after Jaiswa’s single off the first delivery. Cummins to Kohler-Cadmore, FOUR! Short and Kohler-Cadmore finally get some reprieve in this shot, ramping the ball towards short third. Cummins to TKC, OUT! And the struggle finally comes to an end. He tried to play his way too hard but did not get distance as the high catch was cleanly taken by Rahul Tripathi. 

Kohler-Cadmore c Tripathi b Cummins 10(16)

Kohler-Cadmore seems to be tentative against Bhuvneshwar. He first edged before swinging hard, only to miss the line completely. A risky single follows off the third delivery. Bhuvneshwar to Jaiswal, FOUR! Jaiswal stands still and crunches over deep mid-wicket for a cracking boundary. Six runs from this over. 

Skipper Pat Cummins comes into the attack from the other end. Two singles to start the over before Kohler-Cadmore heaves it towards deep midwicket for a quick couple. Just a single off the last three deliveries. 5 off this over. 

Bhuvneshwar from over the wicket, Jaiswal on strike. Starts with a dot delivery. Pitched up on off and well defended by Jaiswal, who went on to drive the second ball towards cover, but still no run. Finally, Jaiswal gets off the mark with a single. TKC gets off the mark with a single after playing a dot ball. Bhuvneshwar to Jaiswal, SIX! In the slot for the left-hander and pulled away nicely into the stands for first boundary of this chase. 

Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Yashasvi Jaiswal open for Rajasthan in the chase. Who else than Bhuvneshwar Kumar will have the white new ball for SRH? 

Avesh Khan to bowl the last over. A couple of dot deliveries to start. An overcooked short ball goes above Shahbaz for a WIDE. Avesh to Shahbaz, OUT! Angled in for the left-hander and Shahbaz could only manage to hole out to Dhruv Jurel at deep mid-wicket. 

Jaydev Unadkat comes in. FOUR! Valuable runs for SRH as Unadkat ramps in behind the square. Last ball, Cummins in the strike. He shuffles across but Avesh changes the line to wide on the offside. Cummins didn’t run and Avesh ran out Unadkat on the non-striker’s end with a direct throw. SRH manages 175/9 in 20.

Another superb yorker from Sandeep. This time, Cummins manages to get his bat on it. Edged and runs away for a four. Slow bouncer now from Sandeep. Cummins waits and waits, but the ball doesn’t get to him. Dot ball. Couple of singles follow. Another slow bouncer and another dot ball. Brilliant over from Sandeep. 

Sandeep Sharma manages to pierce Klaasen’s defence with a fiery yorker. Big, big wicket. 

Heinrich Klaasen b Sandeep Sharma 50 (34b 0x4 4x6)

Boult returns. Klaasen on strike. Full, straight and whacked. SIX OFF THE FIRST BALL! A Wide follows. Pressure on Boult now. Wide short ball. Klaasen can get only a single out of it. Sharp yorker from Boult. Shahbaz digs it out and manages to make it a double. Klaasen showing signs of exhaustion. A single brings up Klaasen’s fifty. A valuable knock for his side. 

Ashwin with his last over. Goes around the wicket. Too straight to Shahbaz, who pulls it well enough. SIX!! Single to long on next. Klaasen on strike. Clever batting as he nudges the next two to the leg side before gathering two doubles. Decent over for SRH. 12 runs from it. 

Avesh Khan. On a hat-trick. Goes for a short ball. Play and miss from Shahbaz. SRH reviews and wins a wide. Two dot balls follow, before Shahbaz squeezes a single to bring Klaasen on strike. Taps the next one to long off for a single. Avesh brings out the slow bouncer. Dot ball. Single to close the over. 

Leg-side from Chahal to start with. Chahal pitches the next one in Klaasen’s range. SMOKED!! SIX!! Full and chipped to long on for a single. Shahbaz nudges the next one to leg side to gather a double. Another wide from Chahal. This time against Shahbaz. 

Samad gone for a golden duck!! Avesh jags one back in off a length. Smacks down the off stump. BOOM!!!

Abdul Samad b Avesh Khan 0 (1b 0x4 0x6)

Avesh Khan with the ball now. First ball, low full toss. Sliced away for a single. Nitish tries a reverse scoop now. Misses it completely. To top it, he burns a review looking for a wide. Nitish goes for a reverse scoop again. This time he connects, only for it to fly straight to Chahal at short third. 

Nitish Kumar Reddy c Chahal b Avesh Khan 5 (10b 0x4 0x6)

Chahal starts with a couple of valuable dot balls against Klaasen. Oh wait. He gets one more dot ball in. Klaasen has had enough of it. Length from Chahal and Klaasen hits it with a straight bat over extra cover fence. SIX!!! Chahal fires a yorker in next ball. Just a single. 

Another over for Sandeep Sharma. Couple of singles to start with as Sandeep sticks to the outside the off stump line. Sandeep tries a bouncer against Klaasen. Too high says the umpire. Wide given. It has been a while since the last boundary. And it stays that way as Sandeep Sharma closes out the over well. 

Chahal comes back. A couple for Klaasen at deep midwicket. Three dot balls to Nitish Reddy to end the over. 

Sandeep comes back. Punched through mid-off by Klaasen for a single first ball. Just three runs off the first five balls as Sandeep goes for the slower ones. OUT! Head is gone. Slower bouncer and Head has guided this straight to the short third fielder. 

Ashwin into his third over. Just four singles from the over as Ashwin opts for the fuller length throughout. 

Chahal comes into the attack. SIX! Klaasen lofts this over deep midwicket after three consecutive singles. Five singles and a maximum from the over. 

Avesh Khan into the attack. SIX! Whipped off the hips by Head over a maximum over deep square-leg. FOUR! Head thrashes that through the off-side and a misfield by Sandeep in the deep lets it go to the boundary. 

Sandeep Sharma to bowl the last over of the PowerPlay. A couple of boundaries for Head through the off-side to end the over. 

Boult continues, into his third. SIX! Tripathi laps this over fine-leg for another maximum. FOUR! Cut away behind point by Tripathi for another boundary. OUT! Tripathi goes the uppercut and is caught at short-third. OUT! Three balls later, Markram is caught in the same region as he gets an outside edge. 

A couple of consecutive boundaries for Tripathi as Ashwin continues. SIX! Full toss and Tripathi sweeps this over the rope at square-leg. 

Boult again. FOUR! Boundary to end the over. Tripathi finds the gap through the cover region to make it a seven-run over after just three came off the first five balls. 

Ashwin from the other end. The ball sticks into the wicket and Tripathi gets an outside edge as he looks to guide this behind point; a couple at third-man. FOUR! Swept to the fine-leg boundary by Tripathi to end the over. 

Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma start the innings. Trent Boult with the ball. Tucked off the pads by Head for a single to get off the mark. This is shaping away, Abhishek steps out to flay this on off-side and makes no contact. SIX! Shortish, waist-high and Abhishek pulls this over deep midwicket for maximum. FOUR! Shaping in this time and Abhishek pushes down the ground for a boundary. Cut away for a couple. OUT! Abhishek gets a top edge trying to swipe across the line and he is caught at cover. 

Abhishek Sharma c Kohler-Cadmore b Trent Boult 12 (5b 1x4 1x6)

RR Impact Players Shimron Hetmyer, Nandre Burger, Shubham Dubey, Donovan Ferreira, Kuldeep Sen

SRH Impact players Shahbaz Ahmed, Mayank Markande, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Umran Malik

That’s fine, we would have bowled. The guys will be aggressive, it’s not going to work everytime, we are going to lose wickets sometimes. We were well below our best a couple of days ago. Another chance tonight, much of the same.

Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Reddy, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abdul Samad, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan

We would like to bowl first looking at the conditions and what Chepauk offers in the second half. We are trying our best to recover, the doctors are doing a great job. We are doing much better. We played 70% of our potential with batting and we managed to cross the line. We’d like to be better. Each and every venue, the dimensions change. We are well equipped to prepare accordingly. Same line-up.

Rajasthan Royals wins the toss and elects to bowl first. 

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Matches played: 1

RR won: 1

Last result: RR won by four wickets (2013)

Played: 12

Won: 5

Lost: 7

Matches played: 19

SRH won: 10

RR: 9

Tied: 0

Last result: SRH won by one run (Hyderabad, 2024) 

This will be the second-ever playoff meeting between RR and SRH in an IPL playoff. 

The first such instance came just over 10 years ago, in the IPL 2013 eliminator game, which happened in Delhi. 

The Royals emerged triumphant in a tricky chase that day courtesy of a quickfire fifty from Brad Hodge. 

Royals skipper Sanju Samson, who was playing his debut IPL season, is the only player among the two existing squads to have taken part in their last playoff meeting. 

After electing to bat first, SRH stuttered its way to a below-par total of 132 for seven. Royals’ chase though never really took off until Hodge provided a late charge with a 29-ball 54 to clinch it for them.

RR though failed to clear the next hurdle as it succumbed to Mumbai Indians in Qualifier 2. 

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