SRH vs DC: Delhi devastated in Abhishek Sharma’s tsunami, Hyderabad shows superpower on home ground

Sunrisers Hyderabad Beat Delhi Capitals By 47 Runs: In the 31st match of IPA 2026 played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Delhi Capitals by 47 runs. With this resounding victory, the host team has reached third position in the points table with 8 points, while it remains at 5th position with 6 points. Abhishek Sharma was given the ‘Player of the Match’ award for his brilliant century.

Abhishek Sharma’s storm in Hyderabad

Delhi Capitals won the toss and invited Sunrisers Hyderabad to bat first, but this decision of DC Captain Akshar Patel proved to be completely wrong. It seemed that Abhishek Sharma had come to Uppal Stadium with the intention of doing something big. He played a brilliant inning of 135 unbeaten runs with the help of 10 fours and 10 sixes in 68 balls, during which his strike rate was 198.52. Apart from this, Travis Head (37), Ishan Kishan (25) and Heinrich Klaasen played an unbeaten inning of 37 runs and took their team’s score to 242/2 in the stipulated 20 overs. Delhi’s bowling was a complete failure, only Akshar Patel got 1 wicket.

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Delhi bowed its knees

Chasing the huge target of 243 runs, Delhi Capitals collapsed to 195 runs after losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. Pathum Nishanka, who came to open, returned to the pavilion after scoring just 8 runs, but after this there was an important partnership of 86 runs between Nitish Rana and KL Rahul. Nitish scored 57 runs in 30 balls and Rahul scored 37 runs in 23 balls. However, after this, Ishan Malinga gave a shock to Delhi by dismissing Rana and David Miller (0) in 2 consecutive balls. Sameer Rizvi (41) and Tristan Stubbs (27) tried a little but could not take DC to the threshold of victory.

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Ishaan Malinga’s amazing feat

Ishan Malinga took 4 wickets at an economy rate of 8 for 32 runs in his 4 over spell. Apart from this, Harsh Dubey dismissed 3 batsmen in 4 overs at an economy rate of 6.00. Dilshan Madushanka and Saqib Hussain also got one wicket each. It was the magic of Sunrisers Hyderabad bowlers that Delhi could not even touch the total of 200.

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