The Rajasthan Royals Bowler Trent Boult created havoc in Hyderabad’s batting line up picked three wickets in the Qualifiers 02 match of the IPL 2024 on May 24 at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.
Trent Boult dismissed Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, and Aiden Markram in the powerplay, putting Rajasthan Royals in advantage at Chennai. He surpassed Hyderabad’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar to claim the most wickets in Power in the 2024 campaign.
Most Powerplay Wickets in IPL 2024
- Trent Boult (RR) – 12 Wickets
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar (SRH) – 10 Wickets
- Mitchell Starc (KKR) – 9 wickets
- Khaleel Ahmed (DC) – 8 Wickets
- Vaibhav Arora (KKR) – 8 wickets
With 63 wickets in the power play, he also went past Sandeep Sharma to have the second-most powerplay dismissals in IPL.
Explosive from both ends 🔥@SunRisers 68/3 after 6 overs but the powerplay belongs to Trent Boult 💗
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Coming to the match, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and opted to bowl. Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma opened the innings where the latter scored 12 runs before being dismissed by Trent Boult.
The Rajasthan Royals pacer also picked the wickets of Rahul Tripathi and Aiden Markram for 37 and 1 runs respectively in the fifth over of the match. By the end of the powerplay, Hyderabad scored 68 runs for three wickets.
Travis Head scored 34 runs on 28 deliveries and was sent out by Sandeep Sharma on the last ball of the 10th over. Avesh Khan dismissed Nitish Reddy and Abdul Samad for 5 and 0. By the end of the 14th over, Hyderabad scored 120 runs with only four wickets in hand.
Heinrich Klaasen Smashed 50 runs on 34 deliveries and was dismissed by Sandeep Sharma on the first ball of the 19th over. By the end of 20 overs, Hyderabad scored 175 runs losing 9 wickets.
With the target of 176 runs, Rajasthan started their innings where young batters Yashasvi Jaiswal and Tom Kohler-Cadmore opened the innings. Pat Cummins had seen a breakthrough after dismissing Tom Kohler-Cadmore for 10 runs. With Abhishek Sharma bagging the wicket of Sanju Samson for 10 runs, Yashashvi Jaiswal scored 42 runs in 21 deliveries.
With Riyan Parag and Ravichandran Ashwin sent back to the dugout by Shahbaz Ahmed, Abhishek Sharma bagged the wicket of Shimron Hetmyer for 4 runs. T. Natarajan bagged the wicket of Rovman Powell for 6 runs and by the end of the 19th over, Rajasthan scored 134 runs losing 7 wickets.
Dhruv Jurel smashed 56* runs on 35 deliveries and by the end of 20 overs, Rajasthan Royals scored 139 runs losing seven wickets.
