Sanju Samson the Rajasthan Royals captain topped the orange cap leaderboard yesterday after hitting a blistering 119 in 63 balls.
In a high scoring last ball thriller played between Rajasthan Royals and Punjab Kings at Wankhede Stadium last night, Sanju Samson starred with first ton of IPL 2021.
With his 119 of 63 balls he almost chased down what looked like a mammoth total posted by Punjab Kings, with help of this knock he went past KL Rahul`s 91 runs posted in the first innings to top the Orange cap leaderboards.
On a beautiful Wankhede wicket Rajasthan won the toss and put Punjab to bat first, After losing early wicket of Mayank Aggarwal , Punjab Kings had two big partnerships between Gayle (40), KL Rahul (91) and Deepak Hooda (64) and helped their team post a big total of 221/6 in 20 overs.
Chasing 222 Sanju was lone warrior for his team who fought till the last ball, Samson needed 5 of the last ball to take his side home and fell short as he got caught at deep cover trying to hit a wide yorker by Arshdeep Singh out of the ground.