‘This is game of margins and you lost to margins when you overstepped’ – Aakash Chopra on SRH’s dramatic victory over RR

Sunrisers Hyderabad pulled off a sensational chase, beating Rajasthan Royals by 4 wickets in Match No. 52 of the IPL 2023 on the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Sunday night time. The Royals amassed 214/2 in 20 overs, with Jos Buttler hitting 95 (59b, 10×4, 4×6) and skipper Sanju Samson managing 66 not out (38b, 4×4, 5×6). SRH’s batters stored their sights firmly on the goal with opener Abhishek Sharma scoring 55 runs (34b, 5×4, 2×6).

In the end, the sport got here all the way down to a last-ball thriller the place Abdul Samad smashed a six off medium pacer Sandeep Sharma to take his aspect over the road. Spinner Yuzvendra Chahal tied Dwayne Bravo’s file of 183 IPL wickets within the dropping effort, ending with figures of 4/29. The encounter was tied for the third-highest goal to ever be efficiently chased down in IPL historical past.

SRH scored 43 runs within the final two overs, which included Kuldeep Yadav gifting away 24 runs within the nineteenth^th over, of which 22 have been struck by Glenn Phillips who smashed three successive sixes and a boundary.

JioCinema IPL knowledgeable Aakash Chopra wasn’t a fan of giving Kuldeep Yadav the ball within the nineteenth over, saying: “We mentioned how one resolution might be the distinction between successful and dropping. Who bowled the nineteenth over? If somebody needed to, it ought to’ve been Sandeep Sharma or Obed McCoy. Kuldeep Yadav may have bowled, I’m not saying he cannot be higher or is common, however the fact is that he should not have bowled this over.”

Chopra additionally commented on the ultimate over no-ball by Sandeep Sharma in a poetic method, saying: “They obtained that catch and thought it was over, however this can be a sport of margins and also you lose to the margins once you overstepped. Should you overstep, you must face the results.

One other JioCinema IPL knowledgeable Brett Lee beloved the competition. “What’s going on on this IPL? I actually cannot imagine it. This has been an incredible end. It has been an unbelievable weekend of cricket and it has been an incredible sport tonight. I assumed there was no likelihood with these quantity of runs in these balls.