Despite losing wickets, Heinrich Klaasen made a gritty fifty, keeping Sunrisers Hyderabad in the game during the IPL 2026 clash against Chennai Super Kings.
He smashed his 10th IPL fifty and is aiming to guide the side to a respectable total in Saturday’s clash.
After being invited to bat first, SRH’s Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head opened the innings while Matt Short opened the bowling attack.
Abhishek Sharma made a stunning start, smashing a 15-ball fifty, while Travis Head had a decent start. Mukesh Choudhary bagged the wickets of Travis Head and Ishan Kishan in the final over of the powerplay.
With Travis Head got dismissed on a full toss delivery, Ishan Kishan sliced the ball to mid off as Gaikwad caught the ball safely.
By the end of powerplay, SRH scored 75 runs for two wickets. Jamie Overton who introduced to bowling attack, bagged the wicket of Abhishek Sharma for 59 runs.
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He caught out behind the wickets on an outside edge. Abhishek Sharma’s knock included 6 fours and four sixes. With Aniket Verma’s dismissal for 2 runs, SRH lost four wickets for 112 runs.
However, Heinrich Klaasen stabilised the innings while on the other hand Jamie bagged the wicket of Nitish Reddy for 12 runs. He went on to slam fifty and continued to bat aiming for posting a 200+ runs in the scoreboard.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing 11: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (c), Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Salil Arora, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivang Kumar, Praful Hinge, Sakib Hussain, Eshan Malinga
Chennai Super Kings Playing 11: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Sanju Samson (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Shivam Dube, Dewald Brevis, Jamie Overton, Matthew Short, Anshul Kamboj, Noor Ahmad, Mukesh Choudhary, Gurjapneet Singh
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