IPL 2024: Abhishek Sharma’s Explosive 50 Powers SRH To Straightforward Win In opposition to PBKS

Abhishek Sharma bossed Punjab Kings bowlers with one more explosive half-century as Sunrisers Hyderabad cruised to a four-wicket win within the IPL in Hyderabad on Sunday. Opting to bat on a flat observe, Punjab Kings posted an imposing 214/5 using on Prabhsimran Singh’s 45-ball 71 and skipper Jitesh Sharma’s ultimate over heroics. However SRH seemed in full management of the tall chase after dropping Travis Head off the primary ball and chased down the goal with 5 balls to spare.

The win took them second place within the desk with 17 factors from 14 matches as they would want to attend for the consequence for the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals.

Rajasthan, who’ve 16 factors, can topple SRH for the prized No 2 spot with a win over KKR in Guwahati.

Ending inside top-two offers the groups an additional probability of creating the ultimate.

Abhishek went about his enterprise with utmost nonchalance for a 21-ball fifty, his third half-century of the season.

He smoked six sixes and 5 boundaries in his knock of 66 from 28 balls to fully tilt the equation of their favour.

Henrich Klaasen (42) Rahul Tripathi (33) and Nitish Reddy (37) made helpful contribution of their full domination act.

Shashank Singh dismissed Abhishek towards the run of play with the batter getting crushed by a slower ball and ended up gifting a catch to Shivam Singh at covers.

However with SRH in prime gear at 129/2 on the halfway stage, the chase was only a formality and Klaasen continued their sturdy momentum, slamming three fours and two sixes.

Seeking to seal the chase, the South African wicketkeeper-batter was bowled by Harpreet Brar within the ultimate over.

However by then, SRH simply wanted seven runs from 10 balls and Sanvir Singh sealed the difficulty with a 4 within the first ball of the ultimate over.

Earlier Arshdeep gave SRH an early blow, cleansing up the damaging Travis Head for a golden duck.

After dropping a wicket of the primary ball, SRH confirmed little signal of panic with Rahul Tripathi seizing the momentum in a 18-ball 33.

Taking part in solely his second match of the season, Tripathi took Rishi Dhawan to clearners with two fours and one six in a row that set the tone for his or her tall chase.

Abhishek then got here on his personal, smashing Arshdeep for 2 fours and one six because the duo continued their assault dealing solely in boundaries to cruise to 50 in 4 overs.

Harshal Patel leaked 22 runs in his first over however returned with a wicket, dismissing Tripathi with a slower ball.

However with 72/2 in 5 overs, there was no trying again for SRH when Klaasen got here to the occasion to file their third highest powerplay rating of 84/2.

The brand new look opening pair of Prabhsimran and Vidarbha’s Atharva Taide placed on 97 runs from 55 balls as PBKS did effectively to see by way of the ability play with out dropping a wicket.

Prabhsimran smashed seven fours and 4 sixes for his 45-ball 71, whereas Taide will remorse lacking out on a fifty after being dismissed for a well-made 46 off simply 27 balls.

Taide hit 5 fours and two sixes and after his departure, Prabhsimran within the firm of Rilee Rossouw because the duo put collectively 54 off 32 balls to maintain the momentum going within the center overs.

It seemed a one-way visitors at 151/1 in 14 overs when leg-spinner Vijayakanth Viyaskanth (1/37) dismissed the set batter Prabhsimran off a faster supply that took a faint edge and Klaasen did effectively to take a one-handed catch behind the stumps.

Cummins (1/36) ended his spell taking the wicket Rossouw one run shy of a half-century within the 18th over that left two new batters on the crease — Jitesh Sharma and Ashutosh Sharma.

T Natarajan (2/33) then did effectively to take away the inform Ashutosh within the penultimate over.

PBKS went on to lose 4 wickets for 44 runs in 5 overs earlier than the stand-in skipper Jitesh’s final over assault took them to a combating complete.

Jitesh (32*) completed with two sixes towards Nitish Kumar Reddy in a 20-run ultimate over.

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