Rajasthan Royals beat Sunrisers by 55 runs, Butler played a brilliant innings of 124 runs

 The decision to snatch the captaincy from David Warner to Kane Williamson and dismiss Warner from the playing XI could not change Sunrisers Hyderabad's fortunes and led them to a 55-run loss to Rajasthan Royals in an IPL match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Sunday. Had to face. Rajasthan scored a mammoth 220 for two on the first century of Jos Buttler's first T20 career.

Butler scored 124 runs in 64 balls with the help of 11 fours and eight sixes in the current season. In response, Hyderabad's team could reach 165 runs at eight wickets in 20 overs. Chasing the target, Manish Pandey (31) and Johnny Bairstow (30) added 57 runs in six overs to give Hyderabad a good start, but both returned to the pavilion in the next two overs. Pandey was bowled by Mustafizur Rahman, while Bairstow was bowled by Rahal Tewatia. Hyderabad then lost wickets at regular intervals. New captain Kane Williamson could score just .20 off just 21 balls. Apart from these, no Hyderabad batsman could reach 20 runs. Mustafizur and Chris Maurice took three wickets each from Rajasthan. Earlier, the new Hyderabad captain Williamson won the toss and decided to bowl first and did not give former captain Warner a place in the final-11. The change in captaincy also showed a change in the team's strategy, when Rashid Khan was bowled in the third over in the powerplay and he proved it right and dismissed Yashaswi Jaiswal (12) lbw. Rajasthan captain Sanju Samson (48) opened the account with a six off Khalil Ahmed as he stepped to the crease. Butler also hit his first four in the same over. Butler got his life in the next over of Rashid, when his difficult catch by Vijay Shankar on long on was dripped. At that time Butler had scored just seven runs. Butler and Samson both scored 18 runs in the seventh over with a six each on Shankar. Samson's easy catch was dropped by Sandeep Sharma in the 10th over. Samson had scored 23 at that time. Buttler completed a 39-ball half-century against Sandeep in the 13th over with a six. Samson hit a four in the next over of Khalil to complete a century partnership with Butler for the second wicket. Butler hit a six in the same over, making the team score 125 for one wicket after 14 overs. He welcomed Muhammad Nabi, who came for bowling in the 15th over, with two sixes and two fours.

 Done by scoring runs. Shankar brought Hyderabad to second success by dismissing Samson in the 17th-over. Samson was caught by Abdul Samad in an attempt to hit a six over long-on. He added 140 runs for the second wicket with Butler. Butler completed the first century of their T20 career in 56 balls with one run after hitting a four in the same over. Sandeep bowled Butler on the final ball of the 19th over to end his innings. However, Sandeep took 24 runs in this over.