Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson stated his 42-run knock off 41 balls was finest fitted to the crew as he performed based on the scenario and guided them to a six-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday (April 24) night. Skipper Sanju Samson’s unbeaten 42 after Chris Morris’ stand-out spell helped Rajasthan Royals register a snug win.
Morris picked 4 wickets and restricted KKR to 133/9 of their allotted 20 overs. With this win, RR registered their second win of the season after two successive defeats.
“Situation of the match demands the way I play. That’s what I’ve learnt from previous years. Even if you bat and score a quick fifty you feel bad if the team doesn’t win,” Samson stated after the match.
Rajasthan skipper additional lauded his bowlers for limiting KKR beneath the par-score. Samson gave particular point out to Morris (4/23) and teenager Chetan Sakariya (1/31).
“Our bowlers have been doing really well for the last 4-5 matches. There are many options for me to juggle around. Really enjoy captaining them. You could see in his (Morris) eyes he wanted the competition. He wanted to get the big batsmen out,” he stated.
“Sakariya is a very different kind of person. Very happy going, very chilled out. Same person inside and outside the ground. Hopefully, he will win us more matches in the future. We need to chill down a bit. We have been playing continuous matches from last week. We will take a day off and plan for the next game,” Samson added.
Chasing 134, Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal stitched a 21-run transient partnership for the opening wicket earlier than spinner Varun Chakravarthy dismissed the previous at 5 within the fourth over. After Buttler’s wicket, skipper Samson joined Jaiswal within the center. Samson added a 19-run stand with Jaiswal for the second wicket.
Shivam Mavi despatched Jaiswal (22) again to the pavilion within the sixth over. Shivam Dube and Samson steered the aspect after the departure of openers. The duo constructed a 45-run partnership for the third wicket. In the eleventh over, Chakravarthy bagged one other scalp as he eliminated Dube (22).
Rahul Tewatia’s keep didn’t final on the crease for lengthy as he was picked by pacer Prasidh Krishna within the 14th over. Tewatia simply scored 5 runs.
David Miller got here in to bat at quantity six. He together with Samson took the duty to take the aspect over the road. Samson scored unbeaten 42 whereas Miller amassed not out 24. For KKR, Chakravarthy picked two scalps whereas Mavi and Krishna bagged one wicket every. Rajasthan will now tackle Mumbai Indians on the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium in New Delhi on April 29.
(with ANI inputs)
