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Steve Smith has asserted that Sanju Samson, who scored 85 runs off 42 balls, has been hitting the ball at will in the practice session, which he showcased against KXIP. He credited Rahul Tewatia, who scored 53 off 31 balls, for believing in himself to take the team home after a disastrous start.

Rahul Tewatia has insisted that the 20 balls he played in the initial part of his innings were his worst ever as he struggled to put his bat on the ball. He added that the coach had sent him to hit leg-spinners but he wasn’t able to do so, finally hitting Sheldon Cottrell for 5 sixes in an over.

Teams with equally strong team lineup on paper, Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab clashed with each other in a match that was dominated by sixes and fours, finally ending in RR’s kitty. While Mayank Agarwal’s 100 cruised KXIP to 223 runs, Sanju Samson’s 85 ensured RR reached the target.

After finishing the innings on a high, Nicholas Pooran was in action on the field again as he made an outrageous effort to save a certain six from Sanju Samson on the boundary. Pooran scored 25 runs off 8 balls in the first innings, which included 2 sixes in last over off Jofra Archer’s bowling.