Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 match at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai on Monday night. Owing to this defeat, the path to the play-offs became tougher for RR. While captain Sanju Samson top-scored for the Rajasthan-based franchise, his counterpart remained unbeaten on 51 and was ably supported by opener Jason Roy, who scored 60.

Here are the other stats from the match:

-Sanju Samson’s top 3 scores this season have all come in a losing cause. 119 vs Punjab Kings, 82 vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, 70* vs Delhi Capitals.

-Sunrisers Hyderabad’s last two chases of targets in excess of 160 have now been against Rajasthan Royals. Their last such chase of 199 was against RR at Hyderabad on March 29, 2019.

-Against the Samson-led team, SRH were 57-0 in the Powerplay, which is their best powerplay performance this season.

-Samson (433 runs) is now the highest-run getter in IPL 2021.

-Samson’s 41-ball 50 was his second-slowest 50 in the IPL, the previous one coming against Pune in 2017.

-RR’s opening stand of 11 was the lowest opening stand against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2021. Previous opening stands: 53, 19, 55, 15, 81, 129, 17, 20, 26.

In the match, Sunrisers Hyderabad overhauled the target of 165, courtesy of Roy and Williamson. Royals’ score of 164/6 was weaved by Samson’s calculated 82-run knock on a sticky wicket.

The loss has dented the Royals’ playoff chances as they remained at the sixth spot with eight points while Sunrisers, who have been ruled out for the playoffs, remained at the bottom of the table.

Now four teams — Kolkata Knight Riders, Punjab Kings, Royals and Mumbai Indians — are tied on eight points each and all are alive in the play-offs race in which CSK and Delhi Capitals are firm favourites for the top two places with 16 points each.

For SRH, Sandeep Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rashid Khan returned with one wicket each. Sidharth Kaul returned with figures of 2/36.