Rajasthan Royals scored 151 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs, losing the toss in the match against Kolkata Knight Riders at Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati. Rajasthan Royals did many experiments on this pitch, but it did not succeed. The opening pair of Jaiswal and Sanju gave Rajasthan a good start and both added 33 runs for the first wicket. However, Sanju was dismissed for just 13 runs. After that Jaiswal and Ryan Parag handled the team’s innings. But once the spinner came, Rajasthan lost wickets at regular intervals. In such a situation, Rajasthan took some shocking decisions, which included the decision to send Hetmyer to number-8 to bat.
This happened for the first time in Hetmyer’s career
This was the 258th T20 match of this West Indies batsman and this is the first time in his T20 career when he has come to bat number-8 or below. Hetmyer has so far scored 4947 runs in 257 T20s at an average of 26.45 and a strike rate of 136.65. But in his 258th T20 match, he flopped badly and was able to score only 7 runs.
Hetmyer, who hit long sixes, has often been batting in number 4-6. He has played 10 innings on number-7 and during this time he has scored just 113 runs at an average of 14.12.
Rajasthan’s maneuver did not run
On the slow wicket of Guwahati, the Kolkata spinners of the batsmen of Rajasthan Royals took the exam well. Despite Sunil Naren, Varun Chakraborty and Moin Ali fully played their responsibility. On the other hand, the Royals batsmen were seen to score runs in a hurry, due to which he went on losing his wickets. Rajasthan lost its third wicket on a score of 69.
Rajasthan team management sent Hasranga to bat on number-5, so that he could attack against the spin bowlers. This maneuver of Rajasthan did not work and Hasranga was dismissed for 4 runs. Apart from this, he gave a chance to Shubham Dubey as an impact player in place of Samson, but he was dismissed for 9 runs.
Dhruv Jurael struggles
Kolkata Knight Riders stopped Rajasthan Royals for 151 runs in 20 overs in the IPL match on Wednesday in the IPL match due to the strong performance of their bowlers. For Kolkata, Vaibhav Aruna, Harshit Rana, Moin Ali and Varun Chakraborty took two wickets each while Spencer Johnson took one wicket. He did not give any opportunity to the Rajasthan batsmen to play openly.
For Rajasthan, Dhruv Juril scored the highest 33 runs off 28 balls with the help of five fours. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 29 runs in two fours and two sixes from 24 balls while captain Ryan Parag scored three sixes off 15 balls and scored 25 runs. Jofra Archer scored 16 runs by hitting two sixes in seven balls in the lower order and brought Rajasthan to 150.
Archer managed to hit each six in the 19th and 20th over but was dismissed by Johnson’s fifth ball of the last over of the innings. Rajasthan was 67/1 at one time in this match, but after that he lost four wickets in a span of 15 runs.
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