We've seen this so often haven't we. Not just in sport, but in real life as well. We keep persisting with something, reluctant to change something that's not producing the goods anymore, hoping that it can, hoping until there's no chance left to succeed. 
SRH was in that position, ever since the start of this season's IPL. At the beginning of the season Warner was the leader, but after a few poor outings, the captain himself was replaced and Warner was benched. Coming into the UAE for the second leg, they were without Bairstow and again gave Warner a second go. But the performance from the first leg repeated and they are out of it now 
Winning the toss, Rajasthan skipper elected to bat, probably because he wanted to exploit the opposition's weakness, which is batting, that too in chases. Back into the eleven after missing out with a niggle in the previous game, Evin Lewis perished early after trying to muscle one over deep square. In came the skipper, the star of the show, Sanju Samson. Season after season, Sanju produces these kind of innings of such high class and mind boggling stroke play and such finesse, you wonder how the hell is this guy not dominating international cricket. But in reality, forget dominating, he's not even making it at the international level.
Such has been the story with Sanju. One extraordinary innings and almost nothing, literally nothing when it comes to consistency.

After beginning cautiously and reaching his fifty in the fifteenth over, the took apart Siddharth Kaul, when he smashed him for 20 runs in that over. With the kind of batting that was on display from Samson, hopes of reaching 200 were nearing. But that wasn't to be, courtesy of some magnificent death bowling from Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who tied the high flying, rampant Samson. May be inspired by Bhuvi, Kaul replicated the same in the final over of the innings, in which he gave away only 4. Samson made a eye-catching 82 while Lomror made a run a ball 29.

The new English import, replacing Bairstow in the squad, didn't do much less than what Jhonny would've done. He displayed his fluent stroke play that we so often witness with him in English colours. The pitch didn't bother him too much neither did the bowling. It seemed as if some other team were batting and not SRH. Because such level of mediocrity had creeped into this batting line from past few games, it feels like this line up isn't up to IPL standards. After a brief partnership with Saha, Roy got together with skipper Williamson and milked the bowling together with occasional boundaries. 
Williamson looked his natural self in this innings. What a massive difference it made to his approach, when he find someone to play aggressively up top. Ever since Warner started misfiring, Williamson too had lost his usual mojo. With the game well in hands, Roy tried to be cheeky and gifted his wicket away trying to play a paddle sweep to a good length wide delivery down leg. Things looked interesting for a while with The Fizz removing Garg for a golden duck. Last year's young sensation, Abhishek Sharma joined forces with Williamson and made sure there were no hiccups till the end. 
So, Hyderabad have started the 'spoil other's party' thing. Rajasthan is still with a chance, but with the big ticket player, Chris Morris and high flying Liam Livingston looking completely out of sorts, things look bleak for the Royals.