Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson blamed his batters and bowlers for a woeful performance as they slumped to a 7-wicket defeat against Sunrisers Hyderabad here on Monday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The Royals were eyeing a score closer to 180 with Samson going great guns after scoring his half-century, hitting some powerful shots all around. But they could manage only 18 runs in the last three overs and eventually ended with 164\/5 in 20 overs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sanju was unmistakably unhappy with his batters as they lost their way in the final three overs. He rued the fact that they fell short by around 10-20 runs while batting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"The wicket was sticky, and they were bowling well. We could have got 10 or 20 more actually. The last overs was the difference - you can say that. I wanted to keep going, but we kept losing one or two wickets," Samson said after the match.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Chasing 165, Sunrisers Hyderabad paced their innings well. Jason Roy, brought into the side in place of non-performing opener David Warner, scored 60 and with skipper Kane Williamson holding the innings together with an unbeaten 51, SRH reaching 167\/3 with nine balls to spare, for a comfortable victory.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Samson felt it was a defendable total and said his bowlers could have done better.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"It was a decent score. We got the target which we were aiming for after the time-out. We definitely need to work a lot on our batting and bowling... We need to be at our best each and every ball. We need to lift our standards," said Samson.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the UAE leg of IPL 2021, Rajasthan started with a two-run victory against Punjab Kings but then lost by 33-runs to Delhi Capitals in their second match. And on Monday, they slumped to a seven-wicket defeat against SRH.<\/p>\r\n\r\n