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Pat Cummins’ army flew in the storm of Vaibhav Suryavanshi, RR reached Q-2 by defeating SRH; Now there will be a big competition with GT

By Samira Vishwas

IPL 2026 SRH vs RR Eliminator Match Highlight: Rajasthan Royals have entered IPL 2026 Qualifier-2 by defeating Sunriders Hyderabad by 47 runs in Mullanpur, New Chandigarh. Now on May 29, he will face Gujarat Titans. Whoever wins this match will play the final match of this season against RCB on May 31. If we talk about this match, SRH captain Pat Cummins won the toss and invited RR to bat.

Thanks to the stormy batting of Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Dhruv Jurel, Rajasthan made a huge score of 243 runs in front of SRH. Sunriders Hyderabad, chasing the score given by Rajasthan, were all out for 196 runs in 19.2 overs. Accordingly, RR won the eliminator match of IPL 2026 by 47 runs.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi became the hero of victory

In this match against Sunrisers, Vaibhav Suryavanshi made a series of records, but he missed his century. He played a explosive inning of 97 runs in 29 balls with 12 sixes and 5 fours. On the score of 97 runs, he was caught by Prafulla Hinge while trying to play a big shot.

Suryavanshi became the batsman to hit most sixes in one season of IPL

Before Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the record of hitting most sixes in a season of IPL was in the name of Cricket Gayle, popularly known as ‘Universe Boss’. He hit a total of 59 sixes in the 2012 IPL, which no one had been able to break till date. At the same time, now 15 year old batsman Vaibhav Suryavanshi has broken Gayle’s record by hitting 65 sixes so far in IPL 2026. Andre Russell is at third place in this list with 52 sixes. At the same time, Jos Buttler is in fifth place with 45 sixes.

Dhruv Jurel also played explosive half-century innings

Apart from Vaibhav, wicketkeeper batsman Dhruv Jurel also completed his half century in fast style. He scored 50 runs in 21 balls with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes. Apart from this, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal remained unbeaten on 29 runs, captain Ryan Parag on 26 runs and Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten on 12 runs.

Hyderabad bowlers proved to be very expensive in front of Rajasthan batsmen. Captain Pat Cummins scored 16 runs, Saqib Hussain and Prafulla Hinge scored 13-13 runs while Ishan Malinga scored runs at an economy of 10 runs per over. Talking about wickets, Prafulla Hinge made 3 batsmen his victims. Whereas, Ishan Malinga, Shivang Kumar and Nitish Kumar Reddy got 1 wicket each.

Sunrisers Hyderabad’s batsmen, who came to chase the score given by Rajasthan, proved to be flop in this match. There was hope from Abhishek Sharma, but he could not even open his account. Ishan Kishan scored 33 runs while Travis Head returned to the pavilion on just 17 runs. Apart from this, Nitish Kumar Reddy played 38 runs and Sahil Arora played 35 runs.

Also read: Vaibhav Suryavanshi broke Chris Gayle’s mega record, Bihar’s Lal became the new ‘Sixer King’ of IPL history.

On the other hand, in bowling, star Joffra Archer took the most wickets for RR. He made 3 batsmen of SRH his victims. Apart from this, Nandre Berger, Sushant Mishra and Ravindra Jadeja got 2-2 wickets. Yash Raj Punja also dismissed 1 batsman of Sunrisers.

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