IPL 2023 / Jos Buttler's injury increased Rajasthan's tension - Sanju Samson revealed a big secret

IPL 2023: Rajasthan Royals, considered one of the strongest teams of IPL 2023, were defeated by Punjab Kings by 5 runs in a thrilling match on Wednesday. This match took place between two strong teams of the season. Rajasthan also left no stone unturned in chasing the target of 198 runs given by Punjab, but the team could only score 192 runs in the end. In this match, his star player Jose Butler and young Yashasvi Jaiswal did not start the innings for Rajasthan Royals. Rather Ravichandran Ashwin landed for the opening. This bet failed because Ashwin could not even open the account after playing 4 balls, but the real secret behind it was opened by captain Sanju Samson.

After the secret that captain Sanju Samson has revealed, tension has also increased in the Rajasthan camp. Earlier it seemed like a bet to see Yashasvi and Ashwin opening. But when Sanju told the real reason for this, the concern of the fans increased. Jos Buttler's finger injury and stitches have come to the fore. Butler is the most important player of this team. It has been seen in the last few times that when Butler's bat moves, this team roars. Otherwise problems arise in front of this team. Something similar was seen against Punjab as well. Now it has to be seen how serious is this injury of Butler. Currently waiting for an update on this.

What was the real reason?

Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson defended the decision to open the innings with Ravichandran Ashwin after their narrow defeat against Punjab. Actually Jos Buttler didn't come to start the innings but why was Ashwin sent despite Devdutt Padikkal being there, it was a big question? When asked about this, Samson said after the match that Jose was not fit. He had stitches on his finger after a catch. The thinking about not opening the innings with Padikkal was that they have two spinners, one left arm and one leg spinner. We wanted this left-handed batsman in the middle overs. Significantly, all these three players Ashwin, Butler and Padikkal proved to be a failure in this match.

Samson impressed by this player

On the other hand, Captain Sanju Samson lauded Dhruv Jurel, who was brought in as an impact player. Samson said that he has been with us for the last two seasons. We are all really happy. When you come to the IPL, there is a week's camp before the IPL starts. Jurel worked for five weeks in our camp, facing thousands of balls. We are happy that we have that kind of batsman in our team. Rajasthan definitely lost the match but Dhruv grabbed everyone's attention by scoring an unbeaten 32 off 15 balls.

Talking about this match, Punjab scored 90 runs for the first wicket between captain Shikhar Dhawan (86 runs in 56 balls, nine fours, three sixes) and Prabhsimran Singh (60 runs in 34 balls, seven fours, three sixes). Due to this, scored 197 runs for four wickets. Dhawan also added 66 runs for the second wicket with Jitesh Sharma (27). In response to this, in front of the sharp bowling of Nathan Ellis (four wickets for 30 runs), Rajasthan Royals team Shimron Hetmyer (36 runs in 17 balls, three sixes, one four) and Dhruv Jurel (32 not out in 15 balls, two sixes, three Fours) could score only 192 runs for seven wickets despite a 26-ball 61-run partnership for the seventh wicket. Captain Sanju Samson (42) was the top scorer for the Royals.