IPL-08 : Rajasthan Royals Record Successive Fourth Win , Beat Sunrisers Hyderbad by 6 Wickets

16 April, Visakhapatnam

Rajasthan Royals kept their winning spree in the ongoing Indian Premier League Cricket . RR On Friday registered their successive fourth win defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 6 wickets in the low scoring match played at Visakhapatnam .

Ajinkya Rahne was man of the match for his valuable innings of 62.

Batting second, RR achieved the 128 run target posted by SH with the help of Ajinkya Rahene’s patient half century. Rahene who proved his class with his selective shorts , foiled the bowling attack of SH made top score of 62 off 56 balls. He was Bowled out by Trent Boult. This was Rahne’s 14th IPL half century .

While Sanju Samson made 26 , Steven Smith was out scoring 13. Start Binny made not out 16.

However, as the score was leveled at 19.5 overs , James Faulkner held his nerve to steer RR home by cracking a boundary of the final ball of the innings.

For SH, Ravi Bopara and Karn Sharma bowled well and tried to stifled RR. Bopara bagged two wickets , while Karn Sharma and Trent Boult took one wicket each .

Earlier, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field.

Put into bat, SH were restricted to 127 /5 in stipulated 20 overs by fine bowling by the RR Bowers.

Eoin Morgan scored highest 27 runs followed by Naman Ojha 25 and Ravi Bopara remained not out with 23 . However Captain David Warner was unlucky today as he was got run out at 21.

RR’s Dhawal Kulkarni and Oravin Tambe took two wickets each.

Rajasthan is currently at the top of the 8-team points table with 4 wins from as many games. Hyderabad, on the other hand, is sixth with a victory and a defeat in the3 games they have played so far.