🏏IPL 2024: Qualifier 2- RR vs SRH at MA C S, Chennai @ 7:30 PM IST🏏
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) lock horns with Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Qualifier 2 of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai today, May 24.
Sunrisers squandered their first opportunity to reach the finals as they comprehensively lost to Kolkata Knight Riders in the Qualifier 1.
The former two-time champions chased down a 160-run target with eight wickets and 38 balls to spare. Pat Cummins and Co. will get a second bite at the cherry today and would want to make it count.
Rajasthan Royals finally won their first match this month, as they defeated an in-form Royal Challengers Bengaluru side in the Eliminator.
Sanju Samson's men chased down a 173-run target with four wickets and an over to spare.
These two sides met each other on one occasion during the league stage. The Sunrisers pulled off a thrilling one-run win at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, defending a target of 202.
Rajasthan would love to exact revenge at this all-important juncture of the league.
In wins, SRH had the best strike rate - 189.51. But most of their defeats were equally sapping.
SRH either flies or crashes and burns - there has been no middle ground or ability to limit damages so far, which should pique the interest of Rajasthan Royals.
Sanju Samson's side arrival in Chennai has made a mockery of the notion of 'momentum', proving once again why knockouts always start with a blank slate.
A four-game rut was wiped out in one evening against RCB, hurling them in the path of the tournament's pace-setters. Cummins was quick to shrug off the defeat to KKR in Q1, but it showed SRH was equally capable of being humbled as they were of inflicting that feeling on the opposition.
RR, with their recent clinicality, will hope to tap into that.
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