Royals win!

Rajasthan Royals beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 61 runs and become the first team this season to defend a total. RR 210/6 beat SRH 149/7 (Markram 57*, Sundar 40; Chahal 3/22, Krishna 2/16, Boult 2/23) by 61 runs 

FIFTY!

Aiden Markram brings up his 50 from 39 balls but it hasn't been effective enough to change the outcome of the game or even bring it close

GONE!

Sundar looks to continue the big hitting and six getting but finds Hetmyer at long on this time. Brilliant cameo from Sundar to salvage some respect for the SRH and avoid a dreadful NRR from the word go. He goes for 40 and SRH are 133/7

GONE!

Chahal strikes and that is his 250th T20 wicket. Shepherd walks across, looks to sweep and misses to be bowled. Quicker ball from Chahal there and Shepherd misses the line completely

Shepherd b Chahal 24 (18), SRH 78/6

GONE!

Abdul Samad comes down the track to Chahal, looks to heave and Parag at deep mid-wicket completes the easy catch. Five down and the nightmare continues for SRH

Samad c Parag b Chahal 4 (6), SRH are 37/5

GONE!

Yuzvendra Chahal strikes in the very first over. Abhishek Sharma tries to up the ante but doesn't clear the field as he would have liked. Gets too close to the ball, miscues the loft and finds Hetmyer at long-on

Abhishek Sharma c Hetmyer b Chahal 9 (19), SRH 29/4

GONE!

Nicholas Pooran is gone for a duck! Plumb! Trent Boult looked close to getting a wicket and he finally gets one. Full, angled in, Pooran misses the flick and is caught leg before. Discusses with his partner Abhishek Sharma and decides against reviewing. Wise decision that but this is going dreadfully for the Sunrisers Hyderabad

Pooran lbw Boult 0 (9)

GONE!

Prasidh Krishna gets his second wicket and that's poor batting from Rahul Tripathi. Short of length, outside off, the ball moves away slightly and Tripathi is beaten for pace and bounce. Samson with the simple take behind

Tripathi 0 (3)

After 20 overs,Rajasthan Royals 210/6 ( Nathan Coulter-Nile 1)

Rajasthan Royals finish on 210/6 from 20 overs. 7 runs from the final over. T Natarajan closes with 2/43. Samson (55), Padikkal (41), Buttler (35) and Hetmyer (33) among the runs

BOWLED!

Full from T Natarajan and the slog doesn't come out this time from Hetmyer. The ball dips in late and takes the leg stump.

Hetmyer b Natarajan 32 (13)

GONE!

Sanju Samson departs with Bhuvneshwar Kumar getting his first wicket of the season! Samad takes a smart catch after running across from long-on. Samson has little room on a back of length delivery, looks for the boundary but unable to clear the boundary

Samson c Samad b Bhuvi 55 (28)

SIX, FIFTY FOR SAMSON

Sanju Samson brings up his fifty from 25 balls. Talk about playing a captain's knock. Darted in flat and short by Sundar and it is dispatched with disdain. Pulled over mid-wicket for a six. Samson doesn't even bother checking the outcome, he raises his bat to acknowledge the applause. 

GONE!

Umran Malik has his second wicket and Devutt Padikkal is bowled! Length delivery, Padikkal is beaten for peace. He seemingly tried to steer it down towards third man but is castled instead. End of the allotted overs for Malik (4-0-39-2) who started poorly but finishes with a wicket

Padikkal b Malik 41 (29)

Appeal, given not out, reviewed, GONE!

Umran Malik back into the attack. Pooran and Malik are very confident of a caught behind on Buttler. Umpire Bruce Oxenford is not convinced. Kane Williamson goes upstairs for the review. And there is a spike on UltraEdge. Buttler walks!

Buttler c Pooran b Malik 35 (28)

GONE!

Shepherd has his first IPL wicket. Short and Jaiswal is cramped for room, he tries to swing towards the leg side only to find Markram at deep sqaure leg

Jaiswal c Markram b Shepherd 20 (16)

Buttler survives!

Bhuvneshwar Kumar gets the ball to swing away, Buttler has a big slash only to take an edge to first slip. But wait a minute, Bhuvi has overstepped. How big will this be? Buttler was gone for a duck!

Playing XI

SRH: Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Kane Williamson(c), Nicholas Pooran(w), Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik

RR: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Yuzvendra Chahal, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna

TOSS

Kane Williamson spins, heads is the call and it comes tails. SRH have won the toss and opted to field