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DC vs RR IPL 2025: Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson has grabbed the limelight lately. During their IPL 2025 match against Delhi Capitals, he was seen retiring hurt while scoring a quickfire knock of 31 runs off 19 balls on Wednesday. Delhi Capitals did win the match during the Super Over, as both teams' scores were; leveled at 188 in 20 overs. During the Super Over, RR team management dropped Nitish Rana, who had scored 51 runs off 28 balls and had sent Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, and Riyan Parag.

A video went viral on social media, where RR's team management which includes head coach Rahul Dravid, and Sairaj Bahutule got involved in a tea huddle before the Super Over. Samson too was seen in the same video but wasn't interacting with anyone. Although, he might be getting stressed a lot of fans speculated as to whether there was any rift in the team management. During the team huddle, a player was seen telling Samson something but he just wasn't interested.

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The RR fans did expect Nitish Rana to bat during the Super Over against DC on Wednesday.

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But, what shocked everyone was that even though he did score a gritty knock of 51 runs off 28 balls, Rana didn't come into bat as the team management had picked Shimron Hetmyer and then Yashasvi Jaiswal during the Super over. This decision didn't work in their favor as they could score just 11 runs off five balls, which also includes two run-outs on the last two balls.

After the match ended, Rana revealed that all the decisions were made by the team management. “This is never the decision of one person. It's always the management, and the support staff, as they can discuss and make a decision on these things. I feel that if this result was in our favor, then the question would have been different. So, this game of cricket is result-oriented. Management is the one who decides. There are two senior players and the captain. I think that decision was right. If Hetmyer had hit two sixes, you wouldn't have asked the same question. Hetmyer is our finisher. Everyone knows this, and he has delivered in the past. There are a lot of things that we could have squeezed a little more, and the tied game from that one run shouldn't have happened. But this is the result," Rana told reporters during the post-match press conference.

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