Vaibhav Sooryavanshi fell for a golden duck, dismissed by one of the debutants, Praful Hinge.
Chasing 217, RR crashed to 9/5, with Hinge taking four of those; three of them came in a dramatic first over!
Fellow debutant Sakib Hussain matched Hinge with a four-for of his own as SRH's call to leave out Jaydev Unadkat and Harshal Patel paid off.
It was captain Ishan Kishan's 44-ball 91 that took SRH to 216/6 on a slightly sticky surface.
Oh, that happened
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi walked back for a first-ball duck at a venue where bowlers usually come to disappear. What? How? Varun Aaron, SRH's pace bowling coach, revealed the backstory. Praful Hinge came in with a clear head: "I've gotten Vaibhav out before, I'm going to get him out today." He wanted to go around the wicket to the left-hander but Aaron nudged him to stay over. Hard length ball, angled across, and Sooryavanshi took the bait, pulled against the angle and was caught (as Boult, Bumrah, Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar perhaps exchanged texts in a secret Whatsapp group titled "We tried").