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Rajasthan Royals stormed into Qualifier 2 of IPL 2026 aft beating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 47 runs successful the Eliminator connected Wednesday. The nighttime belonged to 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, whose 97 disconnected conscionable 29 balls enactment RR successful implicit power of the contest. Chasing a spot successful Qualifier 2, Rajasthan Royals archetypal piled up 243 for 8 aft Sooryavanshi tore isolated the SRH bowling onslaught successful 1 of the astir destructive knocks of the season. The youngster smashed 12 sixes and came wrong touching region of Chris Gayle’s grounds for the fastest IPL hundred. Gayle had reached his period successful 30 balls, portion Sooryavanshi fell for 97 aft facing lone 29 deliveries. The left-hander attacked from the commencement and near Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins searching for answers.
Anything afloat disappeared consecutive down the ground, portion abbreviated balls were chopped and pulled into the stands. Sooryavanshi reached his 50 successful conscionable 16 balls, with 8 of those deliveries going for sixes. His opening spouse Yashasvi Jaiswal mostly watched from the different extremity and scored 29 disconnected 29 balls. By the clip Sooryavanshi was dismissed by Praful Hinge successful the eighth over, Rajasthan Royals had already raced to 125 successful conscionable 8 overs.
The teen besides broke Chris Gayle’s grounds for the astir sixes successful a azygous IPL season. He present has 65 sixes this season, going past Gayle’s tally of 59.
Dhruv Jurel past carried the innings guardant with a speedy 50 disconnected 21 balls, his sixth half-century of the season. Rajasthan Royals looked acceptable for an adjacent bigger full astatine 180 for 2 successful 13 overs, but Sunrisers Hyderabad fought backmost successful the decease overs. SRH picked up 5 wickets for 36 runs successful the last 5 overs to halt RR from crossing the 260-run mark. Still, the harm had already been done. Pat Cummins finished with costly figures of 0 for 64 successful 4 overs. Sakib Hussain gave distant 49 runs successful 3 overs, portion Praful Hinge took 3 wickets but conceded 54 runs. Eshan Malinga besides struggled, portion wrist spinner Shivang Kumar impressed and picked up the wicket of Jaiswal. In reply, Sunrisers Hyderabad ne'er genuinely recovered aft losing wickets successful the powerplay. Jofra Archer struck cardinal blows successful the powerplay and removed Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan and Travis Head.
Archer’s last figures work 4-0-58-3. Though helium leaked runs aboriginal successful the innings, his wickets of SRH’s biggest match-winners proved decisive. Ishan Kishan made 33 portion Nitish Kumar Reddy scored 38 to support SRH successful the pursuit briefly. Salil Arora added 35, but wickets kept falling astatine regular intervals. Heinrich Klaasen besides failed to marque an interaction and was trapped lbw by Yash Raj Punja portion trying an attacking shot. The lower-middle bid tried to counterattack, but the people proved excessively big. Sunrisers Hyderabad were yet bowled retired for 196 successful 19.2 overs. Rajasthan Royals volition present look Gujarat Titans successful Qualifier 2 connected Friday for a spot successful the IPL 2026 final.
