Rajasthan Royals suffered one other disappointing defeat as they misplaced in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad by 4 wickets regardless of posting a 200-plus complete on May 7. Rajasthan’s inconsistent kind put them in the fourth place in the factors desk with simply 5 wins in 11 video games. But the Royals’ camp can be comfortable to see Jos Buttler and Sanju Samson returning to kind with sensible fifties in opposition to SRH. Buttler top-scored with 95 off 59 whereas skipper Samson smashed 66* off 38 to finish poor kind in IPL 2023.
Samson additionally smashed 4 fours and 5 sixes throughout his sensational knock in opposition to SRH and achieved some big milestones. With his 4 fours, Samson reached the 300-four mark in IPL and have become the one twenty second participant to take action. He surpassed the legendary Indian batter Sachin Tendulkar in this listing, who had recorded 295 fours from simply 78 IPL video games for Mumbai Indians.
Punjab Kings skipper Shikhar Dhawan leads probably the most fours in the IPL chart with 729 fours, adopted by David Warner, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, and Rohit Sharma in the top-five chart.
Most fours in IPL
- 729 – Shikhar Dhawan
- 624 – David Warner
- 619 – Virat Kohli
- 539 – Rohit Sharma
- 506 – Suresh Raina
Samson surpassed KL Rahul in one other report
Samson additionally handled residence followers with 5 big sixes and took his tally to 114 sixes in IPL. He surpassed KL Rahul‘s tally of 109 sixes and is now solely behind MS Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, and Rishabh Pant with probably the most IPL sixes by wicketkeepers’ listing.
- 232 sixes – MS Dhoni
- 131 sixes – Dinesh Karthik
- 123 sixes – Rishabh Pant
- 114 sixes – Sanju Samson
- 109 sixes – KL Rahul
Rajasthan skipper’s 5 sixes in opposition to SRH additionally helped him register one other report. This was Samson’s ninth IPL innings the place he smashed 5 or extra sixes. Samson additionally surpassed MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina in the listing of Indian gamers with probably the most IPL innings with 5 or extra sixes
- 12 innings – KL Rahul
- 10 innings – Rohit Sharma
- 9 innings – Sanju Samson
- 8 innings – MS Dhoni & Suresh Raina
- 7 innings – Rishabh Pant
