In a dramatic twist, just as Rajasthan were beginning to celebrate their win, a no-ball was spotted by TV umpire Virender Sharma. With a second attempt, Abdul Samad clobbered the straight six which handed the points to Hyderabad
Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals 214-2, Sunrisers Hyderabad 217-6 - Sunrisers Hyderabad won by four wickets
An astonishing finale saw Sunrisers Hyderabad steal victory from Rajasthan Royals' grasp as an IPL thriller went down to the last ball of the game.
Sunrisers were left requiring 17 off the final over after fine late hitting from Glenn Phillips put their 215-run target within reach.
But they seemed to have fallen just short when Sandeep Sharma restricted Marco Jansen and Abdul Samad to 12 runs from those six deliveries.
In a dramatic twist, however, just as Rajasthan were beginning to celebrate their win, a no-ball was spotted by TV umpire Virender Sharma. With a second attempt, Samad clobbered the straight six which handed the points to Hyderabad.
It was a remarkable climax to another high-scoring Indian Premier League match.
Rajasthan had earlier posted 214 for 2, with Jos Buttler playing the starring role. Buttler fell five runs short of a century, having been ruthless in his treatment of the Sunrisers attack.
The England white-ball captain smacked 10 fours and four sixes and shared in a brutal second-wicket partnership with Sanju Samson.
Samson was just as destructive in clubbing 68 not out from 38 balls, as the pair shared a 138-run stand in 13.3 overs.
In their reply, Sunrisers made a fast start but were tied down by the spin pair of Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal. Ashwin's 1 for 35 was good, but Chahal was even better, claiming 4 for 29 and drawing level with Dwayne Bravo at the top of the all-time IPL wicket-takers list in the process. The pair each have 183 victims in the competition.
Rahul Tripathi's quickfire 49 brought the chance of victory back in sight for Sunrisers, but with 40 required off the last 2.1 overs and two new batsmen at the crease, the chances seemed slim.
Then Phillips went ballistic, hitting 25 in seven balls, including three successive sixes off Kuldeep Yadav.
And that took the game to its extraordinary denouement.
Samad was dropped by Obed McCoy at short third man from the first ball of the final over, while Joe Root could only tap a lofted straight drive over the ropes for six with a fine diving effort from the second delivery.
A hustled two to long-off came from the third, leaving seven required off three, before Samad took a single to the same fielder from the next delivery. Six from two needed.
Sandeep appeared to be holding his nerve, and Marco Jansen could only squeeze a single off the penultimate ball of the innings, leaving Samad having to hit a six.
Rajasthan began celebrating when Samad found Jos Buttler at long-off, but seconds later the message was relayed to the onfield umpires that Sandeep had overstepped. And from the subsequent delivery, Samad drove on one knee over long-on.
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