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Travis Head–Abhishek Carnage Lead SRH in Massive Run Chase vs Mumbai Indians

Travis Head–Abhishek Carnage Lead SRH in Massive Run Chase vs Mumbai Indians

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A solid start from Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma anchors Sunrisers Hyderabad in a 243-run chase against the Mumbai Indians on April 29 at Wankhede Stadium. Mumbai Indians bowlers had no answers for the duo’s aggressive start in Wednesday’s clash. After choosing to bat first, Will Jacks and Ryan Rickelton opened the innings while Pat Cummins opened the bowling attack. The duo made a solid start, scoring 78 runs in the power play. However, Will Jacks got dismissed on the first ball of the 8th over from Nitish Kumar Reddy. He was caught out on an outside off delivery. With a swing in the delivery, Ishan Kishan picks the catch safely behind the wickets. Suryakumar Yadav came to bat at No.3 and joined Ryan Rickelton aiming for playing a brilliant knock. In the meantime, Ryan Rickelton smashed his fifty in 23 deliveries which included 5 fours and four sixes. Eshan Malinga bagged the wicket of Suryakumar Yadav for 5 runs. He got dismissed on a short delivery where Abhishek Sharma take the catch. Naman Dhir …

Most sixes in an IPL season: Can Vaibhav Sooryavanshi break Chris Gayle’s record in 2026? | Cricket News

Most sixes in an IPL season: Can Vaibhav Sooryavanshi break Chris Gayle’s record in 2026? | Cricket News

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2 min readApr 29, 2026 09:50 AM IST The IPL 2026 season has seen unprecedented levels of six-hitting just as the tournament has moved past the half-way stage. The previous season in 2025 was the greatest edition in terms of six-hitting with 1294 sixes hit in 73 matches. The individual striking has entered a whole new level this year, with the Indian batters leading the charts with a bevy of maximums. Among them, teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has emerged as the six-hitting freak thus far, smoking a staggering 37 sixes in only nine innings, putting him already close to the Indian record in an edition. Sooryavanshi also tops the run-getters list with 400 runs and also broke the Indian record held by Murali Vijay for most sixes in an innings, having smashed 12 of them during his 36-ball hundred against SunRisers Hyderabad. Among Indian batters, Abhishek Sharma holds the record for the most sixes struck in a series, with 42 maximums in the 2024 edition. ALSO READ | Has Vaibhav Sooryavanshi already set a world …

IPL 2026: Abhishek Sharma vs Jasprit Bumrah – what will happen when unstoppable force meets immovable object | Cricket News

IPL 2026: Abhishek Sharma vs Jasprit Bumrah – what will happen when unstoppable force meets immovable object | Cricket News

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5 min readUpdated: Apr 28, 2026 07:40 PM IST When Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) face Mumbai Indians (MI) on Wednesday, one of the most significant individual battles could begin straight away: Jasprit Bumrah vs Abhishek Sharma. It is a clash between one of the IPL’s greatest pacers and one of its most dangerous Powerplay batters. But beyond reputations, there is a more specific tactical question. Can Bumrah’s slower ball change the scoring areas that have powered Abhishek’s best innings in IPL 2026? The head-to-head numbers can give MI confidence. Across five IPL innings against Bumrah, Abhishek has scored only 17 runs from 23 balls at a strike rate of 73.91 and has been dismissed twice.The numbers suggest that Bumrah has not allowed Abhishek to get off to a start. That is significant because SRH’s batting model depends heavily on fast starts. A look at the left-hander’s major innings this season shows a clear pattern. Most of his runs have come through the offside. In his 74 off 28 balls against Punjab Kings, 53 percent of his …

Sooryavanshi’s 103 goes in vain as Kishan and Abhishek power SRH to record chase | Cricket News

Sooryavanshi’s 103 goes in vain as Kishan and Abhishek power SRH to record chase | Cricket News

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3 min readApr 26, 2026 12:18 AM IST Synopsis: Sooryavanshi blazed 103 off 37 balls but Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Sharma put on 139 to power SRH to the fourth highest chase in IPL history. Half-centuries from Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Sharma helped SRH chase down 229 and ensure Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s century went in vain. Sooryavanshi tees off Vaibhav Sooryavanshi had scored 54 runs across his previous three innings. For a teenager who had been one of the stories of this IPL, that was a slump. On Saturday in Jaipur, he answered it with 103 off 37 balls. The assault was immediate. Praful Hinge, who had taken three RR wickets in a single over earlier this season, found himself on the receiving end — four sixes in the opening over. Much of the damage came on the leg side, where 63 percent of Sooryavanshi’s runs were scored. He struck 12 sixes in all, eight of them between long-on and square leg. He was dropped on 32 — Aniket Verma putting down a chance off Eshan …

Ishan Kishan, Abhishek Fifties Powers SRH to 5-Wicket Win Against Rajasthan Royals

Ishan Kishan, Abhishek Fifties Powers SRH to 5-Wicket Win Against Rajasthan Royals

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A solid knock from Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan has set up Sunrisers Hyderabad to post a 5-wicket victory in the IPL 2026 game against Rajasthan Royals at Jaipur. Their fifties have guided the side towards a comfortable win in Saturday’s clash. With this win, they moved to the third position in the IPL 2026 points table. After being invited to bat first, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Suryavanshi opened the innings while Praful Hinge opened the bowling attack. The 15-year-old made four back-to-back sixes as the side posted 25 runs in the first over. Eshan Malinga brought the first breakthrough, dismissing Yashasvi Jaiswal for 10 runs. He was dismissed on a length delivery that bounced, striking in the mid-off area where Klaasen took the catch. With Dhruv Jurel joining Vaibhav Suryavanshi at crease, Rajasthan Royals went on to score 76 runs in the powerplay. In the mean time, Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 15-ball fifty troubling SRH bowlers. In the 9th over, the side went on to cross 100 run mark aiming to post a big total …

Abhishek Sharma and the sightscreen father

Abhishek Sharma and the sightscreen father

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On Tuesday night, Abhishek Sharma had just hit 135 off 68 balls. The stadium in Hyderabad was still making the noise it makes after something like that. The presentation microphone was in his hand. And in that moment, with all of it around him, Abhishek Sharma thought about his father. “I don’t know how, but since my Under-12 days, my dad has been sitting next to the screen all the time. Whenever I am at the non-striker’s end, he always tells me how to play a certain shot. It’s still going on. I want one of the cameras to go to him next time and just see his reactions.” Raj Kumar Sharma was near the sightscreen. He is always near the sightscreen. It started when Abhishek was playing junior cricket in Punjab. Sharma Sr would travel across the state, find the stand nearest the sightscreen, and sit. Not cheer. Sit and watch. From there he could read a bowler’s wrist. He could see the seam position shift, the change-up being loaded, the field setting into …

The man who has been in Abhishek Sharma’s stands since Under-12

The man who has been in Abhishek Sharma’s stands since Under-12

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“I don’t know how, but since my Under-12 days, my dad has been sitting next to the screen all the time. Whenever I am at the non-striker’s end, he always tells me how to play a certain shot. It’s still going on. I want one of the cameras to go to him from next time and just see his reactions,” Abhishek Sharma said in the post-match presentation on Tuesday night after walloping an unbeaten 135 off 68 balls. Amritsar, sometime in the early 1980s. A boy in a colony watches another boy cycle past every morning in white clothes. He doesn’t know where the boy is going. He doesn’t know what cricket is. Neither does his father. Neither does his mother. One day he asks. In a conversation last year on Taruwar Kohli’s YouTube channel, Rajkumar Sharma went back to his own beginning — that boy on the cycle, white shirt, white pants, going somewhere he wasn’t. When he walked to Gandhi Ground one day, and saw the boys in white on a proper ground, …

Abhishek Sharma keeps the left-handers’ explosion going in IPL after Tilak and Priyanshu: ‘I dedicate this innings to my ailing sister’ | Cricket News

Abhishek Sharma keeps the left-handers’ explosion going in IPL after Tilak and Priyanshu: ‘I dedicate this innings to my ailing sister’ | Cricket News

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After starting the season slowly, Sunrisers Hyderabad are back on track, climbing up to the third spot with back-to-back wins at home and making a strong case for the playoffs with lesser-known bowlers. On a night when Sunrisers Hyderabad had the opportunity to get out of the middle muddle, Abhishek Sharma, who is affectionately called Puli (tiger) by Hyderabad fans, pounced upon the Delhi Capitals bowlers to smack 135 runs from just 68 deliveries. Later, in the defence of 243 runs, Eshan Malinga, with the older ball reversing, gave a masterclass of his slower balls and delivered lethal yorkers, picking up 4/32, not affording any DC batsmen even a semblance of respite. Abhi shakes Uppal It must be something in the DNA of left-handers that naturally fits into T20 cricket. For the third day in a row in the IPL after Priyansh Arya and Tilak Varma, it was Abhishek Sharma’s turn on Tuesday to keep the sequence going of breathtaking innings from southpaws. It wasn’t something the crowd at Uppal had not seen before from …

Axar Patel had Kuldeep Yadav and himself. He chose Nitish Rana instead. | Cricket News

Axar Patel had Kuldeep Yadav and himself. He chose Nitish Rana instead. | Cricket News

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3 min readApr 21, 2026 10:52 PM IST Nitish Rana’s place in the Delhi Capitals squad was partly justified by his ability to bowl off-spin. With Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head and Ishan Kishan — three left-handers — anchoring the Sunrisers Hyderabad top order, the logic was sound. A ball turning away from the left-hander is a harder proposition. There was one problem. Rana barely turned the ball at all. The part-timer bowled two overs in the Powerplay and two in the middle overs, conceding 55 runs without a wicket. Six sixes and two fours — all, ironically, from left-handers. The frustration for DC fans was not just the damage but the arithmetic: five specialist bowlers available, and yet Rana still bowled four. His first three overs cost 32 — an acceptable return for a non-regular in T20 cricket. Then Axar Patel gave him the 15th over. It went for 23, including three sixes and a four. This while Axar himself and Kuldeep Yadav — two spinners most captains would hand full quotas without hesitation — …

Abhishek Sharma: IPL’s smiling Buddha who demolishes bowlers | Cricket News

Abhishek Sharma: IPL’s smiling Buddha who demolishes bowlers | Cricket News

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4 min readUpdated: Apr 21, 2026 10:20 PM IST Among all the post-modern openers in the league, Abhishek Sharma inhabits a rarefied space of his own. So much so that he is already making a compelling case to be one of the most destructive openers in IPL history, not so much for his numbers as for the sheer impact he makes and the thrill he promises. He is IPL’s biggest blockbuster, the batsman that stops traffic, that fills stands, that forces people to set their chores aside without a dilemma. He is the smiling Buddha who demolishes bowlers. FOLLOW LIVE | SRH vs DC  Raised in the IPL era, the 26-year-old is a fusion of all the legendary openers who had revelled in the IPL stage. He has the six-hitting vigour of Chris Gayle. He hits one maximum every 9.8 balls (as an opener); the Jamaican swiped one six every nine balls. They are different in musculature and methods, but both rely on a sweet and high bat-swing. Like Gayle, he glides down the surface, …