Dhruv Jurel salvaged some of the flailing part of the innings for the Royals and scored a quick half-century but eventually it is the Sunrisers, who have gotten through to the final.
Rovman Powell wasn't able to get his timing right and has gotten out for a 12-ball 6.
Shimron Hetmyer comes, Shimron Hetmyer goes. Abhishek Sharma has taken his second wicket of the match and Royals are capitulating here.
Shahbaz Ahmed has broken the back of Rajasthan Royals with now wickets of R Ashwin and Riyan Parag in the same over. The Royals have lost half their side and will need something special from the rest of the batters to play out of their skins.
And Abhishek Sharma has struck gold. From nowhere he was called into bowling and on a sluggish track, he got the RR captain Sanju Samson.
Yashasvi Jaiswal has departed now as the stranglehold with the spin for the Sunrisers Hyderabad has begun as Shahbaz bowled it slow and with no dew, it turned and the left-hander mistimed it straight to the long-off fielder.
Rajasthan Royals have ended their powerplay on a high with Yashasvi Jaiswal smashing 19 runs off the final over following a really slow start.
Tom Kohler-Cadmore was not able to time the ball well and apart from the one boundary, he just struggled and threw his wicket away as Pat Cummins got the breakthrough for his side.
It's Pat Cummins from the other end and he starts with a good over. Just five runs from this after eight from the first over. Cummins created a bit of a chance on the final ball of the over when Kohler-Cadmore mistimed one. RR 13/0 after 2
And the run-chase is now on. RR openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Tom Kohler-Cadmore are out in the middle as they look for a strong start. Bhuvneshwar Kumar has the new ball in his hand.
Sunrisers Hyderabad got to 175 following a sensational pace-bowling display from Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma and Trent Boult as they shared 8 wickets between them to restrict the Orange Army to a chaseable score with a short boundary.
Sandeep Sharma came up with a boss of a yorker to get the big wicket of Heinrich Klaasen on the first ball of the 19th over and he has been sensational with the ball all throughout the tournament.
Sunrisers Hyderabad have gotten to 150 and Heinrich Klaasen has played a huge part in that and he brought up a hard-working half-century and will hope to get his side to 180-plus in a knockout.
Abdul Samad has tapered off in the season after a good start and that has hurt the Sunrisers badly now. Avesh cleaned Samad up on the very first ball he faced and SRH are in a spot of bother.
Avesh Khan has had a season to remember for the Rajasthan Royals with a comeback for the ages. He was bowling wide yorkers to Nitish Reddy, he had a plan and messed with the batter's head and eventually got the wicket. This has been beautiful planning and execution from RR bowling attack.
Sanju Samson, R Ashwin, Sandeep Sharma and coach Kumar Sangakkara all of them were cock-a-hoop as it was visible from their expressions that they had a plan in place - of bowling slower bouncers to Travis Head with a catching position (short third) in place and the bowler executed it perfectly.
Sunrisers' repair job is also a fast one as Travis Head and Heinrich Klaasen haven't curbed on their natural instincts of playing their shots and they are going at 11.5 runs per over despite losing three wickets.
Rajasthan Royals are slowly coming their way back into the game with Boult now having gotten his third wicket as Aiden Markram has departed without doing worth of note on return as Chahal at short third takes his second catch. Sunrisers have scored 57 runs in five overs but have also lost three wickets now.
Tripathi just kept going for his shots and the dismissal was round the corner as one could see from his gameplan and it was Boult, who foxed him with a slower bouncer and the SRH batter handed a simple catch to Chahal at short third.
This has been an RCB-level turnaround from Rahul Tripathi in IPL 2024. Tripathi lived by the sword as he just kept going for his shots, whether it was R Ashwin or Trent Boult. Sunrisers got to their fifty in just 25 balls, all thanks to Tripathi, who has now played three good innings in a row.
Abhishek Sharma after chasing a wide swinging delivery from Trent Boult smashed the left-armer for a six and a four before misjudging the bounce off the surface as he gave a simple catch to the point fielder and the Royals have a big breakthrough early into the innings.
Sunrisers Hyderabad openers didn't have a great outing a couple of days ago in Ahmedabad and will be looking for a better start as this one is a knockout. No second chances this time around.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Umran Malik, Sanvir Singh, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Markande, Shahbaz Ahmed
Rajasthan Royals: Shimron Hetmyer, Nandre Burger, Shubham Dubey, Donovan Ferreira, Kuldeep Sen
Playing XI: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Reddy, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abdul Samad, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan
Playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal
Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson has won the toss and elected to field first saying that the conditions dictated his decision. Royals are coming off a successful chase in the eliminator.
61m and 72m on either side are the square boundaries. The groundsmen reckoned that there would be no dew and hence winning the toss and batting first might be a good option. The wicket looked hard, since it is being used for the first time in the tournament and a score of 180-190 batting first could be too much for chase in the second innings given dew is not a factor.
Sunrisers struggled with a dependable option in the middle overs with all the wickets falling around Rahul Tripathi. With Tripathi making No. 3 his own in the last two games, expect someone like Glenn Phillips at No 6 and one Indian bowler replacing Vijaykanth Viyaskanth.
Sunrisers failed to chase a 200-odd target while Rajasthan Royals could only muster 145 runs when the two teams previously played at the venue against the home team Chennai Super Kings. One of the two teams will get a win in the city and the other will end its campaign with a couple of losses at the venue.
Sunrisers Hyderabad will take on the Rajasthan Royals in a battle for a place in the final at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Sunrisers are coming off a loss while the Royals will be confident after winning a knockout against RCB as there are just knockouts for each of the three sides remaining in the competition. Welcome to our live coverage of SRH vs RR, Qualifier 2 from Chennai.
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