In the Indian Premier League (IPL), Rajasthan Royals registered their 5th win this season by defeating Punjab Kings by 3 wickets. In the match played in Mullanpur on Saturday, Rajasthan won the toss and chose to bowl first. Punjab scored 147 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. Rajasthan team, which came to chase the target, won at the loss of 7 wickets in the last over. Hetmyer won by hitting 2 sixes in the last over.
Rajasthan captain Sanju Samson won the toss and chose to bowl first. Punjab scored 147 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Rajasthan team won the match by scoring 152 runs for 7 wickets in 19.5 overs. Rajasthan defeated Punjab by scoring 34 runs in the last 3 overs. Shimron Hetmyer led the team to victory by hitting 2 sixes in the last over of Arshdeep Singh. Arshdeep could not save 10 runs in the 20th over. Hetmyer remained not out after scoring 27 runs on 10 balls.
Apart from Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 39 runs, Tanush Kotian scored 24 runs and Ryan Parag scored 23 runs for Rajasthan. Captain Sanju Samson contributed 18 runs. Rovman Powell was out after scoring 11 runs and Dhruv Jurel was out after scoring 6 runs. Kagiso Rabada and Sam Curran took 2-2 wickets. Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar and Liam Livingstone got 1-1 wicket.
