A rankling 50 years from Shimron Hetmeyer pounded the Rajasthan Royals to a defendable 165 for six in their 20 overs against the Lucknow Super Giants in their Tata IPL match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday evening.
Hetmeyer smoked his direction to an unbeaten 59 off 36 balls, crushing one four and six sixes, yet at first played a revamping job after Ravichandran Ashwin (28) went along with him at the wrinkle in the tenth over with the Royals on 67 for four at that stage.
Krishnappa Gowtham had recently had opener Devdutt Padikkal (29) got and Rassie van der Dussen (4) amazed in the, putting the Super Giants on top.
Hetmeyer and Ashwin then scored only 25 runs off the following 31 balls as the Royals advanced toward 92 for four after 15 overs, before they began to open up.
Ashwin clubbed two sixes toward the beginning of the sixteenth over from Gowtham as 16 chilled out, before they oversaw seven off the seventeenth.
Hetmeyer, who was on 21 off 25 balls at this stage, chose to release focusing on his West Indian partner Jason Holder as he crushed two sixes and a four off the eighteenth over that went for 18 runs.
The nineteenth over saw Ashwin peculiarly run off the field to resign out, however that didn't upset Hetmeyer as he creamed Avesh Khan for consecutive sixes to raise his 50 years, while the over went for 16.
Holder dumbfounded the last and Hetmeyer and new batsman Riyan Parag (8) both clubbed huge sixes, as one more 16 got over it, while Parag was trapped in the profound off the penultimate ball, as the Royals finished their innings with a lot of force.
Toward the beginning of play the Super Giants won the throw and decided to bowl.
It was a consistent beginning from the Royals who scored 42 for one in the powerplay, with Jos Battler (13) the main wicket to fall bowled by Khan, while Sanju Samson (13) was caught LBW by Holder before the activity started off in the tenth over.
LUCKNOW SUPER GIANTS: KL Rahul (capt), Quinton de Kock (wk), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Jason Holder, Krishnappa Gowtham, Dushmantha Chameera, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan
RAJASTHAN ROYALS: Jos Buttler, Rassie van der Dussen, Sanju Samson (capt, wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldip Sen
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