Hyderabad: With Abhishek Sharma's destructive century innings, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Punjab Kings by 8 wickets. This is the second win of Sunrisers Hyderabad team this season. With this, Sunrisers Hyderabad also made the record of successfully achieving the second biggest target in the history of Indian Premier League. In the match, Punjab Kings won the toss and batted first and scored 245 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. In response, Sunrisers easily won the match by scoring 247 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in 18.3 overs with Abhishek's century and Travis Head's fifty.
For the Sunrisers team chasing the target in the match, Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head together made a partnership of 171 runs for the first wicket. Against Punjab, both these batsmen made the match one-sided with their stormy batting. However, during this time Travis Head was out after scoring 66 runs in 37 balls, but Abhishek Sharma's storm continued.
Abhishek completed century in 40 balls
After Travis Head's wicket, Abhishek Sharma became more explosive. First of all, Abhishek completed his fifty in 19 balls. After this, he faced 21 balls to score the next 50 runs. In this way, Abhishek Sharma completed his century in just 40 balls. This was Abhishek Sharma's first century in IPL. Not only this, Abhishek also made the record of scoring the second fastest century for Sunrisers in this league. The record of fastest century from Sunrisers is in the name of Travis Head. Travis Head made this record against RCB in the year 2024.
Abhishek became the Indian to play the biggest innings
With a century in 40 balls, Abhishek Sharma has become the Indian batsman to play the biggest innings in IPL history. Abhishek was dismissed after playing an innings of 141 runs in 55 balls against Punjab Kings. In his innings, he also hit 10 sixes and 14 fours. In this case, he has left KL Rahul behind. KL Rahul was the Indian batsman to play the biggest innings with an innings of 132 runs.
Punjab Kings also made a splash in batting
Not only Sunrisers, the players of Punjab Kings also made a splash in batting. Punjab scored a huge score of 245 runs for six wickets with the stormy half-century of captain Shreyas Iyer (82) and fiery innings of Priyansh Arya (36), Prabhsimran Singh (42) and Marcus Stoinis (34 not out). Punjab Kings made the second highest score of this season.
Captain Shreyas scored 82 runs in 36 balls with six fours and six sixes. Priyansh hit two fours and four sixes in 36 runs off 13 balls. Prabhsimran hit seven fours and a six in 42 runs off 23 balls. Nehal Wadhera hit two fours and a six in 27 runs off 22 balls. Priyansh and Prabhsimran gave Punjab a stormy start in the powerplay by adding 66 runs in four overs. Iyer shared a 73-run partnership with Wadhera for the third wicket.
Harshal Patel took 4 wickets
Glenn Maxwell and Shashank Singh became the victims of Harshal Patel after scoring three and two runs respectively. Shreyas Iyer was dismissed in the 18th over on a score of 205 but Stoinis hit four consecutive sixes off Shami in the last over of the innings to take Punjab to a huge score of 245. Harshal took four wickets for 42 runs in four overs while Shami proved to be very expensive by conceding 75 runs in four overs.
