PBKS vs SRH: Abhishek and Klaasen played brilliant innings, Hyderabad gave Punjab Kings a target of 220 to win.

PBKS vs SRH : The 17th match of IPL 2026 is being played between Punjab Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad at Mullanpur Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh. In this match, Punjab won the toss and invited Hyderabad to bat first. After this, Sunrisers Hyderabad, batting first, scored 219 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs and gave Punjab Kings a target of 220 to win, thanks to the explosive innings of Abhishek Sharma and Heinrich Klaasen.

Abhishek Sharma created a stir

In this match, Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head came to open the innings for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Both of them added 120 runs for the first wicket in 8.1 overs. Abhishek Sharma scored 74 runs in 28 balls with 5 fours and 8 sixes. He was the highest run scorer for the team. His Alana Head played an inning of 35 runs in 23 balls with 5 fours and 1 six. Shashank Singh sent both of them to the dugout in the same over.

Travis Head ✅
Abhishek Sharma ✅

Shashank Singh with the crucial wickets 😊

Smart bowling change by #PBKS 🫡

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Heinrich Klaas played a steady innings

Apart from these two, captain Ishan Kishan returned to the pavilion after scoring 27 runs, Aniket Verma 19 and Salil Arora scored 9 runs. Heinrich Klaasen scored important runs for the team in the last overs. He played an inning of 39 runs in 33 balls with 1 four and 1 six. He was caught out by Xavier Bartlett at the hands of Cooper Colony.

He made that catch look easy😏

🎥 Marco Jansen with a bit of magic in the deep 🪄🫴

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Playing-11 of Hyderabad and Punjab

Sunrisers Hyderabad – Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper/captain), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Harshal Patel, Ishan Malinga.

Punjab Kings – Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Johnson, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vishak, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.

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