Shimron Hetmyer’s touchy 27 runs off 10 balls assisted Rajasthan Royals edge out Punjab Lords with a three-wicket IPL win on Saturday in Chandigarh, and concrete the side’s place at the highest point of the table.
Hetmyer’s spell at the crease, bound with three sixes, carried Rajasthan past Punjab’s 147-8 with only one ball in excess. Up to this point this establishment has lost just a single match this season.
“Now and then it works out, in some cases it doesn’t,” Hetmyer said. “Blissful I could assist my group with winning this evening.”
Punjab got off to a good beginning with Atharva Taide and Jonny Bairstow making 26 runs for no misfortune toward the finish of three overs.
However, Avesh Khan excused Taide not long after while Bairstow fell in the eighth over – both making 15.
Rajasthan’s clinical bowling stifled the innings, with Keshav Maharaj sending back acting commander Sam Curran for six.
Influence sub Ashutosh Sharma top-scored from the base request with 31 from 16 balls before he was gotten on the last chunk of the innings off Trent Boult.
Rajasthan openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Tanush Kotian set up the pursuit with a 56-run organization before Liam Livingstone bowled the last option for 24 in the 10th over.
Quick bowler Kagiso Rabada eliminated Jaiswal (39) and Sanju Samson (18), with Hetmyer coming in toward the finish of the seventeenth over when the guests were as yet 35 behind.
The West Indian hammered two limits in the eighteenth over and endured even as accomplices Rovman Powell (11) and Maharaj (one) fell.
“Somewhat frustrated and we will return in the following game,” Curran said.