Jos Buttler's scorching maiden IPL T20 ton and Mustafizur Rahman's tenacious bowling guided Rajasthan Royals to a 55-run win against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL match at Delhi today.
The match was preceded by news that a day after stripping David Warner of the captaincy, Sunrisers Hyderabad dropped the opener from the team altogether for Sunday's match as they sought to revive their Indian Premier League (IPL) campaign under Kane Williamson.
Sunrisers' plan with a new captain did not materialize the way they might have wanted to as Buttler smashed his way to 124 off 64 deliveries, his innings laced with 11 fours and 8 wickets. Sanju Samson, who struck a 33-ball 48, strung together a 150-run partnership for the second wicket. Buttler departed in the 19th over, bowled by Sandeep Sharma but his spectacular innings guided Royals to 220 for three.
Sunrisers began chase well, picking up 57 runs in six overs before Mustafizur started the rot. Manish Pandey was bamboozled by the first delivery of Fizz's second over, a slower delivery that ricocheted off his pads and onto his stumps to depart for a 20-ball 31. Jonny Bairstow was then holed at long on off Rahul Tewatia after scoring 30 off 21. Kartik Tyagi picked up Kane Willamson's (20) scalp before Mohammad Nabi tried to change momentum, hitting two sixes in the 14th over off Tewatia.
Mustafizur came back to the attack to remove Nabi with another slower cutter as the right-hander departed for a 5-ball 17. Fizz's third scalp was Rashi
