Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma scored half centuries as SunRisers Hyderabad chased down the 166 run target set by Lucknow Super Giants at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Wednesday. Travis Head’s 89 not out off 30 deliveries and Abhishek Sharma’s unbeaten 75 off 28 balls helped Sun Risers Hyderabad reach home in 9.4 overs.

Abhishek Sharma raced to his half-century in 19 balls. He continued his good form in IPL 2024 and got to his fifty with a 6 and later smashed a 4 in the same over that was bowled by Ayush Badoni. This win also means that Mumbai Indians are knocked out of the tournament. The Hardik Pandya-led side, which has 8 points after playing 12 games, could reach to a maximum of 12 points.

While Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals and Sun Risers Hyderabad have already more than that in the points table, the winner from the Delhi Capitals Vs Lucknow Super Giants game on May 14 is also going to have at least 14 points.

Ayush Badoni’s unbeaten half century took the Lucknow Super Giants total to 165 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. For the Lucknow Super Giants, Badoni remained unbeaten on 55 runs and Nicholas Pooran was 48 not out pushed the innings forward after they elected to bat first. For Sun Risers Hyderabad, Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the pick of the bowlers with 2/12.

Travis Head’s sensational knock of 89 runs off just 30 deliveries earned him the Player of the Match award. Pat Cummins commended the outstanding batting performance and highlighted the exceptional skills of the 2 players. He acknowledged Abhishek Sharma’s remarkable display and admitted that it is a challenge to contain him when he is in top class form. Cummins was surprised at the unexpected birthday gift from the team.

Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson fined thirty percent of his match fees on Tuesday at the Arun Jaitley Stadium for his argument with the umpires over his controversial dismissal against the home team, the Delhi Capitals.

Samson was leading the Royals to a convincing win at 86 runs as they pursued a target of 222 runs. But DC bowler Mukesh Kumar ended his innings as he attempted to knock him over long-on but Shai Hope caught him, staying within the boundary. Before giving the RR skipper, the umpires carefully inspected the catch and examined it very close.

However, Samson did not appear happy with the result because he believed Shai Hope had crossed the line and got into an argument with the umpires. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) fined the Royals’ wicketkeeper heavily for violating the BCCI code of conduct, even though RR did not win the match.

On May 07, 2024, at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, during Match 56 of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 against the Delhi Capitals, Sanju Samson was fined thirty percent of his match fees for violating the IPL Code of Conduct, the official statement stated.

According to IPL Code of Conduct Article 2.8, Samson committed a Level 1 offense. He acknowledged the offense and consented to the Match Referee’s punishment. The decision of the Match Referee is final and binding for Level 1 breaches of the Code of Conduct, the statement continued.

The director of RR’s team, Kumar Sangakkara, also mentioned the challenges the umpires had in rendering the decision at pivotal points in the match.

Replays and angles play a role, and occasionally you may believe that the foot has been touched. However, it is a challenging call for the third umpire to make. That’s what happens in cricket; the game was at a critical point. Our viewpoints on it are divergent. In light of what the umpires ultimately decided, you have to support that choice. They will discuss it with the umpire and work things out if we have any other opinions. However, even with that dismissal, they arguably needed to have won that game, Sangakkara said.

The RR captain has already received punishment this year; for a slow over-rate during the game against the Gujarat Titans, Samson was assessed an INR 12 lakh fine.

Rajasthan Despite the defeat to DC, the Royals maintain a comfortable four-point advantage over the third-place Chennai Super Kings and are positioned second in the points standings.

Despite captain Sanju Samson’s knock of 86 runs, the Rajasthan Royals fell short by 20 runs against the Delhi Capitals in their 11th match of the season on Tuesday. The Rajasthan Royals were set to chase a target of 222 runs but lost both their openers during the powerplay but Samson and kept the hopes of a victory alive before he was dismissed by Mukesh Kumar.

Abhishek Porel and Jake Fraser-McGurk and scored half centuries as the Delhi Capitals posted 221/8 in their 20 overs against the Rajasthan Royals. Ravichandran Ashwin was the pick of the bowlers as he took 3 important wickets off his 4 overs. Yuzvendra Chahal became the first Indian to take 350 wickets in T20 cricket as he dismissed Rishabh Pant.

In reply, Rajasthan Royals were restricted to 201 for 8 with Kuldeep Yadav being the pick of the bowler for Delhi, returning with 2/25. Khaleel Ahmed (2/47) and Mukesh Kumar (2/30) also picked up two wickets each. Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson led Rajasthan’s chase with his 5th half-century of this IPL season. But his splendid knock of 86 runs off 46 balls (8×4, 6×6) went in vain after Shai Hope took a controversial catch at the edge of long-on boundary.

Other than Sanju Samson, openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Joss Buttler could not make an impact during the match. Jaiswal scored 4 runs off 2 deliveries while Buttler was dismissed at 19 runs off 17 deliveries. Other players including Riyan Parag scored 27 runs off 22 deliveries, Shubham Dubey scored 25 runs off 12 deliveries, Rovman Powell scored 13 runs, Donovan Ferreira lost his wicket at 1 run, Ravichandran Ashwin was dismissed at 2 runs, while Trent Boult and Avesh Khan remained unbeaten at 2 runs and 7 runs respectively.

 After yesterday’s IPL match, Delhi Capitals has moved to fifth place with 12 points and a net run rate of -0.316 while RR remained at number 2 with 16 points with a net run rate of 0.476.