A solid knock from Abhishek Sharma has powered SRH to post 219 runs in the IPL 2026 game against Punjab Kings on April 11 at New Chandigarh.
His knock of 74 runs off 28 deliveries has set up Sunrisers Hyderabad to post a solid total against Shreyas Iyer-led Punjab Kings in Saturday’s clash.
After being invited to bat first, Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head opened the innings while Arshdeep Singh opened the bowling attack.
The SRH duo made an aggressive start, scoring 105 runs in the powerplay. Abhishek Sharma went on to an 18-ball fifty while Head played second fiddle. The openers stitched a 120-run partnership for the first wicket, dismissing Travis Head for 38 runs.
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Shashank Singh bagged the wickets of the openers in the same over as Abhishek Sharma got dismissed for 74 runs. His knock included five fours and 8 sixes.
Ishan Kishan who came to bat, got dismissed by Arshdeep Singh. Marco Jansen who was placed in deep mid wicket just inside the boundary rope did take a catch and sent back SRH captain to dug out for 27 runs.
On the other hand, Klaasen did play a calm knock while other batters Aniket Verma, Salil Arora got dismissed on run out and caught out respectively.
Aniket Verma added 18 runs off 9 deliveries while Salil Arora scored 9 runs before being dismissed by Arshdeep Singh.
With Klaasen’s dismissal for 39 runs, Nitish Reddy and Harsh Dubey stayed at crease as SRH scored 219 runs in their 20 over innings.
Arshdeep Singh and Shashank Singh bagged two wickets while Xavier Bartlett picked a wicket for Pujab Kings.
Punjab Kings Playing 11: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh(w), Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer(c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing 11: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan(w/c), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Harshal Patel, Eshan Malinga
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