Rajasthan Royals v Sunrisers Hyderabad, IPL 2014: Highlights, Scorecard, Report

Shane Watson took a hat-trick on Thursday, but his Rajasthan Royals team went down by 32 runs to Sunrisers Hyderabad in Ahmedabad.

The Royals, who won the toss and elected to field, restricted the visitors to 134-9 in their 20 overs as the Australian native took the 13th IPL hat-trick in history and the second of 2014.

However, Watson made just 11 with the bat as Rajasthan were dismissed for 102 in 19.5 overs at the Sardar Patel Stadium.

Watson clean-bowled his opposite number Shikhar Dhawan for 33 with the last ball of the fourth over and then returned in the 17th over to have Moises Henriques caught at long-on and Karn Sharma caught behind in consecutive balls.

Sunrisers' lower order struggled with Amit Mishra involved in a comical run out at the third attempt.

Irfan Pathan, with an unbeaten run-a-ball 21, was the only batsman outside the top four to make it into double figures.

BATSMEN		RUNS	BALLS	SR	4S	6S
Shikhar Dhawan	b Shane Watson	33	20	165.00	7	0
Aaron Finch	c Ajinkya Rahane b Rajat Bhatia	9	10	90.00	1	0
Lokesh Rahul	b Rajat Bhatia	18	18	100.00	2	0
Naman Ojha	b Rajat Bhatia	17	19	89.47	1	0
David Warner	st Sanju Samson b Pravin Tambe	6	7	85.71	0	0
Moises Henriques	c Ajinkya Rahane b Shane Watson	9	13	69.23	1	0
Irfan Pathan	NOT OUT	21	21	100.00	2	0
Karan Sharma	c Sanju Samson b Shane Watson	0	1	0.00	0	0
Dale Steyn	run out (Sanju Samson)	9	8	112.50	1	0
Amit Mishra	run out (Sanju Samson)	0	2	0.00	0	0
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	NOT OUT	0	1	0.00	0	0
EXTRAS	(w 2, b 5, lb 5)	12
BOWLER	O	M	R	W	ECON	DOTS
Kane Richardson	4	0	28	0	7.00	8
Dhawal Kulkarni	2	0	19	0	9.50	6
Shane Watson	2	0	13	3	6.50	7
James Faulkner	4	0	20	0	5.00	9
Rajat Bhatia	4	0	23	3	5.75	6
Pravin Tambe	4	0	21	1	5.25	7

However, their total soon looked a competitive one, as the hosts stuttered to 37-3 in the powerplay and then lost Watson in the first over after the lifting of the fielding restrictions.

A 37-run partnership between Stuart Binny and Steven Smith gave Rajasthan hope, but the latter was superbly run out by David Warner for 12, and the Australian became Dale Steyn’s second victim after making 22.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar dismissed James Faulkner, Rajat Bhatia and Kane Richardson in the 18th over to finish with 4-14 before Pathan sealed the victory with the penultimate delivery of the match.

BATSMEN		RUNS	BALLS	SR	4S	6S
Ajinkya Rahane	c David Warner b Bhuvneshwar Kumar	0	3	0.00	0	0
Karun Nair	c Naman Ojha b Dale Steyn	12	9	133.33	3	0
Sanju Samson	b Karan Sharma	16	16	100.00	1	1
Shane Watson	c Naman Ojha b Moises Henriques	11	10	110.00	1	0
Stuart Binny	run out (David Warner)	12	19	63.15	0	0
Steve Smith	c Irfan Pathan b Dale Steyn	22	33	66.66	0	0
Rajat Bhatia	c David Warner b Bhuvneshwar Kumar	4	8	50.00	0	0
James Faulkner	c Aaron Finch b Bhuvneshwar Kumar	4	6	66.66	0	0
Kane Richardson	c & b Bhuvneshwar Kumar	1	2	50.00	0	0
Dhawal Kulkarni	NOT OUT	7	6	116.66	1	0
Pravin Tambe	c Dale Steyn b Irfan Pathan	3	7	42.85	0	0
EXTRAS	(w 5, b 4, lb 1)	10
BOWLER	O	M	R	W	ECON	DOTS
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	4	0	14	4	3.50	17
Dale Steyn	4	0	31	2	7.75	11
Karan Sharma	4	0	20	1	5.00	6
Moises Henriques	2	0	11	1	5.50	5
Amit Mishra	4	0	13	0	3.25	13
Irfan Pathan	1.5	0	8	1	4.36	4

Rajasthan remain in third place in the standings after their third loss in eight games, while Hyderabad picked up their third victory and could even up their win-loss record by beating Delhi Daredevils on Saturday.