Fifteen-year-old Rajasthan Royals player Vaibhav Sooryavanshi went down for a golden duck in an almost certain of rare IPL failures as his side scored its heaviest loss since 2014 in the IPL, the Indian Premier League, going down by 57 runs to Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday as two debutantes Praful Hinge and Sakib Hussain shone.
The teen sensation played a critical role on Saturday in Rajasthan’s four victories this season with a pair of 15-ball fifties including in the previous match.
Famine was the first time that an opponent had taken three wickets in ONE IPL OVER — India’s Twenty20 tournament. Be it Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel, and Lhuan-dre Pretorius, it they all left the box at zero.
Hinge, an Indian youth who idolizes Australia’s Pat Cummins, took 4 wickets and was brilliantly supported by compatriot Hussain, who achieved figures of 4-24 as an impact sub.
Hyderabad went crazy when Hinge accounted for Rajasthan’s skipper Riyan Parag with only four runs in his next over and the visitors plummeted to 9-5 in chase of 217.
South African Donovan Ferreira top-scored with 69 and Ravindra Jadeja made 45 as they put on 118 for the fourth wicket before Hyderabad were bowled out for 159 from 19 overs.
This season’s first defeat in their fifth game left Rajasthan top on the 10-team log with eight points. Champions in 2016 Hyderabad bounced back after losses.
Sooryavanshi went for it when a flier off his edge was pouched by the wicketkeeper. Salil Arora came to Hyderabad.
The baby-faced Sooryavanshi looked up at the sky then trudged back disconsolately as his team’s big chase got rapidly less likely.
Last year’s IPL gave us the wunderkind Sooryavanshi, who in his first season included a 35-ball century that was the IPL’s second fastest ever.
This T20 wunderkind has simply ridiculous numbers to his credit, with 452 runs in 12 appearances and a chastening strike rate of 228.28.
Earlier, Hyderabad skipper Ishan Kishan hit 91 off 44 balls as they scored 216-6 after opting to bat first.
Abhishek Sharma was lbw to pace ace Jofra Archer without scoring while fellow opener Travis Head clipped another twirler from the same bowler for 18.
Kishan, with eight boundaries and six sixes, put 88 worth of stake on Fat Anonymous with the left-handed Heinrich Klaasen and then added $40 more to his total by himself. That gladdened the hearing no end.
Archer, Rajasthan’s English attack, took two wickets for 37 runs.