Rajasthan Royals 243 for 8 (Sooryavanshi 97, Jurel 50, Hinge 3-54) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad 196 (Reddy 38, Arora 35, Kishan 33, Archer 3-58, Burger 2-26) by 47 runs thanks to Sooryavanshi's 97 off 29.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is having one of the most amazing seasons in all of sports and history, not just in the IPL, T20, or cricket. In the Eliminator, he put on his best performance of this incredible season, just missing out on one of the IPL's most sought-after records but setting the Rajasthan Royals (RR) up for a decisive victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH).

Over the course of his innings, 15-year-old Sooryavanshi broke a number of records, including the most sixes by any batter in a T20 tournament. He was just one shot away from surpassing Chris Gayle's record for the fastest IPL century (30 balls), but he top-edged an attempted uppercut to deep third and fell for 97 off 29 balls.
After that innings and Dhruv Jurel's 50 off 21 balls, RR's innings collapsed, and they finished seven short of the 250 that had at one point appeared to be a formality. However, Jofra Archer's powerful new-ball burst proved to be more than enough.

Ishan Kishan and Travis Head's second-wicket partnership of 51 off just 15 balls threatened to make this match a repeat of their previous encounter; Sooryavanshi had scored 103 off just 37 balls that day, but SRH had fired from both ends while RR had fired from just one. However, Archer ensured that didn't happen by dismissing both of them. Before that, he had previously defeated Abhishek Sharma; this was an incredibly impressive performance against one of the most dangerous top threes in T20 cricket.
After winning by 47 runs in the end, RR will play Gujarat Titans in Qualifier 2 on Friday.

SRH's best-laid intentions are destroyed by Sooryavanshi
How can Sooryavanshi be kept silent? Every IPL team has attempted to devise a strategy, but none of them have been successful. With both of their outfielders positioned in front of square on the leg side and the occasional short ball tossed in as a surprise, SRH employed a strategy akin to death bowling during the powerplay, with Pat Cummins and Eshan Malinga trying to go full and straight and deny Sooryavanshi elevation.
There was little room for error in this scheme, and Sooryavanshi was merciless about anything that even remotely went wrong. He timed the ball with crystalline purity if he had even the slightest opportunity to get under a full ball.

Sooryavanshi had a solution for everything when SRH started experimenting with Plans B, C, R, W, and so on. He was especially good at maintaining his form and driving slower balls over mid-off and extra-cover. Holding a traditional nice length and seeing what happened was one thing SRH didn't really try. Maybe they rejected that as a possibility because of how flat this New Chandigarh track was.
Before succumbing to his sporadic adversary Praful Hinge in the eighth over of the competition, Sooryavanshi blasted 12 sixes in 28 balls. After that, the play resembled a typical Twenty20 encounter.RR slumps, Jurel shines
Consider yourself Yashasvi Jaiswal. Sooryavanshi is still one of India's best T20 openers, but who can score as many runs or hit as many sixes as he does? Jaiswal may have had an even more bizarre day because he faced the same number of balls as his opening partner and scored 29 runs compared to Sooryavanshi's 97.
RR appeared to be in danger of losing all of their early momentum after losing Jaiswal, but Jurel made sure that didn't happen with his most inventive innings of the year.

However, Jurel's removal caused RR to decline, and in a significant way. They lost five wickets in the final five overs, including Donovan Ferreira and Nandre Burger's run-out dismissals, and managed just 36 runs. The latter summed up the dysfunctional conclusion: Burger was run out trying to score a second run off the next delivery, and Ravindra Jadeja, the final acknowledged batter, gave up the strike after taking a single off the first ball of the final over.

Kishan tore into Archer to reach fifty inside the third over, but when he mis-hit a slap to the fielder at cover, things resumed as usual. The match appeared to be over when Archer slipped a fast, full ball past Head and into the top of off as he attempted to make room and flay it away. Burger had placed RR farther ahead with a superb, hard-length ball to force a mistake from R Smaran in the fourth over.
Since this was an eliminator, SRH had no choice but to keep firing punches. They made two brief threats to re-enter the competition.Heinrich Klaasen missed a reverse-sweep off the legspinner Yash Raj Punja in the seventh over, despite hitting two fours and an incredible six over the covers in nine balls.
At the midway point of the chase, SRH was at 132 for 5 thanks to a half-century partnership between Nitish Kumar Reddy and Salil Arora in just 19 balls. However, it seemed impossible that they could continue at that pace without providing opportunities, and once Reddy holed out off Jadeja in the eleventh over, RR knew they could relax.