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Ipl23 Match no 4 RR vs SRH this match RR won by 72 runs. Jos Buttler (Player of the Match): "Fantastic startfor us. We hada really good season last year but itcOunts for nothing. We start fresh this year and itsa great marker for us as the first game.Iplan a little bit but you react on the day andassess the conditions. Try and play accordingly,try and put the opposition under pressure. Reallyenjoying my batting at the moment and trying tokeep a clear mind.Imjust trying to keep a clear mind and try toreact. Once you geta good start in the powerplay,not too wickets down, allows you to be quiteaggressive and looking for the big shots."Sanju Samson (Rajasthan Royals Skipper): "Iwas wondering how we will start this season buthappy to start with the win. Having batters likeButtler and Jaiswal, we can expect to score bigin the powerplay. We definitely are a very goodside. But you never know with this format andtournamnent. So we have to keep our heads downand keep working hard. We did a decentjob towin this game. There are plenty of strengths butthere should be weaknesses. You can't be 100%right all the time. We will find the weaknesses aswe move ahead in the tournament."Yuzvendra Chahal:" The way we got the startin batting. The way Jos and Yashasvi batted, weknew that it is a big score on this pitch and it willIbe hard to hit. Ialways back myself. I don't botherwho's batting and all. My plan was to vary thepace and bowl stump to stump.Its always my strength. I am not doing anythingnew. Sometimes I don't get wickets, sometimesI get hit, its the same thing. When I get a fifer orsomething, definitely a new celebration will come.Its justa first match, too early to celebrate."Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Sunrisers HyderabadSkipper): Just got to forget it and move forward.Last five to six overs we pulled things back withthe ball. There was something in it for the bowlersbut we didn't bowl well upfront. They also battedreally well. Captain is coming back and it willdefinitely be a good batting side. It was a prettygood track. The good thing is that we can getwhatever we want and we quickly need to bounceback in our next game.": The finalists of the previous seasonget off to the new season in style with a huge72 run victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabaddefeating the Orange Arnmy on their home turfin Hyderabad. Bhuvneshwar Kumar captainedSRH in place of Aiden Markram who is absent onnational duty and elected to bowl first.Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal provided amagnificent start to the Royals adding 85 runsfor the first wicket in the powerplay. Buttlerscored a quickfire 54 in 22 balls with 3 sixes and7 fours. Yashasvi also scored 54 in 37 deliveriesand added another 54 runs for the 2nd wicketwith skipper Sanju Samson who kick started hisseason with 55 in 32 balls which included 4 sixesand 3 fours.Shimron Hetnyer finished the innings hitting 22in 16 bals as the Sunrisers bowlers dragged thetotal down to 209 which was once looking goingpast 240.T Natarajan playing competitive cricketfor the first time after October 2022, was the pickof the bowlers with 2/23 in 3 overs. FazalhagFarooqi also picked upa couple of wickets butwas expensive. Adil Rashid on IPL debut bowledsmartly albeit finished wicketless.Rajasthan started their second innings witha double bang with Trent Boult starting theproceedings with a double wicket maiden to sendRahul Tripathi and Abhishek Sharma back in thevery first over. Wickets kept tumbling at regularintervals with only Mayank Agarwal lookingstubborn scoring 27 in 23 balls. Harry Brook also playing for the first time in theIPL and in his 100th T20 fixture got off to a startbut was well set by Yuzvendra Chahal gettinghim out for the 3rd time in T20 history. SRHintroduced as their first ever impact player gettinghim in place of Farooqi with RR getting NavdeepSaini in place of Yashasvi Jaiswal.Chahal was the pick of the RR bowlers with 4/17.Trent Boult bowleda terrific spell of 2/21 with adouble wicket maiden at the beginning to guideRR to a strong defense. KM Asif (0/15 in 3), JasonHolder (1/16) and R Ashwin (1/27) also bowledeconomically. Umran Malik batting at number 10 providedSome entertainment to the crowd with some biglusty hits scoring 19 in just8 balls and askingthe team management for a promotion in thebatting order but the target seemed tOo muchfor the Hyderabad batters who never looked inthe element and were out of the reckoning in themiddle overs itself.

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