Ishan Kishan scored a binding, unbeaten 94 (48b, 7×4, 5×6) and the opposite batters fired like sawn-off shotguns in brief bursts as Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 42 runs in IPL 2025 on the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on Friday (May 23, 2025).
SRH’s opening duo of Abhishek Sharma (34) and Travis Head (17) stroked up a 54-run stand that fizzed and poured on the viewers like glowing champagne. The partisan RCB crowd gamely loved the get together so long as it lasted.
Milestone
Abhishek casually sliced an additional cowl six off Lungi Ngidi earlier than cheekily shuffling throughout early and scooping a slower supply for a 4 to high quality leg off the identical bowler to deliver up his 4000 T20 runs.
Klaasen, the zen grasp of hitting, produced a few his signature massive hits in his 13-ball 24: from his typical hang-back set off, he uncoiled for sixes over midwicket and lengthy on, off Ngidi and leg-spinner Suyash Sharma.
Aniket Verma (26) went one higher than Klaasen. He hit three sixes down the bottom — two off Suyash to lengthy off earlier than promptly despatching a rank full toss straight down the bottom off Krunal Pandya’s left-arm spin.
Kishan was the gravitational pull of his workforce’s batting. His innings was like a tugboat to an ocean liner. Three of his 5 sixes got here on the loss of life. He barely shuffled throughout and swept one over brief high quality leg off a dipping full toss from Romario Shepherd; produced a well-timed, Rishabh Pant-like, one-handed six off Bhuvneshwar Kumar over lengthy on; and sliced Yash Dayal’s slower ball from deep in the crease over broad lengthy off in the final over. Before that sliced six, he reached out for a large supply, like a lizard pouching its prey, to slap it for a 4 to deep cowl level.
Phil Salt’s 32-ball 62 was the spotlight of the RCB chase. The standout shot of Salt’s innings was a mosquito-bat swat off a brief ball from Nitish Kumar Reddy for a six over lengthy off. The shot highlighted the core elements of Salt’s batting: staying deep in the crease, getting whipcord-tight whereas hitting, clubbing with all his may.
Published – May 24, 2025 12:05 am IST
