IPL 2023: First Time In Historical past! Sanju Samson Beats Virat Kohli To Obtain Spectacular Milestone | Cricket Information

Sanju Samson began his Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 marketing campaign with an excellent half-century as Rajasthan Royals defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad comfortably on Sunday. Samson was the top-scorer for his aspect with a 32-ball-55 and he performed an enormous position in taking them to a stable whole. Within the course of, Samson additionally made historical past by changing into the primary batsman ever to attain 700 runs towards SRH. He was additionally the primary one to attain 600 towards the 2016 champions with Virat Kohli within the second spot.

Rajasthan Royals made a rousing begin to the IPL-16, thrashing Sunrisers Hyderabad by 72 runs.

Batting first, final season’s runners-up RR received off to a flier with T20 World Cup-winning England skipper Jos Buttler smacking 54 off 22 balls (7×4, 3×6).

Promising uncapped Indian Yashasvi Jaiswal made an an identical 54 (37b; 9×4), whereas skipper Sanju Samson top-scored with 55 (32b; 3×4, 4×6) as RR posted season’s highest whole of 203 for five.

In reply, the house aspect managed 131 for 8 within the stipulated 20 overs.

For Sunrisers Hyderabad, T Natarajan (3-0-23-2) was the choose of the bowler and dragged the Royals again in a tidy penultimate over the place he dismissed Samson and gave away simply seven runs.

Left-arm Afghan pacer Fazalhaq Farooqi returned with 2 for 41 from his 4 overs.

In reply, the house aspect misplaced two wickets with out opening the account with Trent Boult inflicting the double blow within the first over en path to his splendid figures of 4-1-21-2.

Thereafter, Indian wrist spinner Yuzvendra Chahal made hay in his 4-0-17-4 to have them reeling at 95 for 8.

Simply after they regarded to fold inside 100 runs, the Jammu and Kashmir duo of Adul Samad (32 not out; 32b) and Umran Malik (19 not out; 8b) produced some late fireworks to take them to a decent 131 for 8.

(With PTI inputs)