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Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Sharma (Image credit: BCCI/IPL)
NEW DELHI: Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klaasen and Ishan Kishan person been the driving unit down Sunrisers Hyderabad’s awesome IPL 2026 campaign. The trio has piled connected runs consistently portion showcasing SRH’s trademark fearless marque of batting passim the tournament.During SRH’s IPL 2026 clash against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, the Hyderabad-based franchise achieved a monolithic milestone. Abhishek, Klaasen and Kishan became lone the 2nd batting trio successful IPL past from the aforesaid squad to people 500-plus runs each successful a azygous season.
The SRH trio joined the elite database aft Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan and Jos Buttler achieved the feat for Gujarat Titans successful IPL 2025.Klaasen has been SRH’s starring run-scorer this season, amassing much than 550 runs astatine an mean supra 50.Explosive opener Abhishek has besides crossed the 550-run people successful IPL 2026, scoring astatine a staggering onslaught complaint of implicit 200.Kishan, who captained SRH during the aboriginal signifier of the tourney earlier regular skipper Pat Cummins resumed enactment duties, has besides gone past 500 runs this season.Already done to the playoffs, Sunrisers Hyderabad won the flip and opted to bat archetypal against RCB.RCB welcomed backmost skipper Rajat Patidar, who replaced the injured Jacob Bethell successful the lone alteration to the playing XI, portion SRH retained the aforesaid operation from their erstwhile match.
SRH skipper Cummins admitted that finishing successful the apical 2 remained a agelong shot, but said the squad wanted to springiness themselves the champion imaginable accidental by putting up a large total.RCB presently beryllium connected 18 points from 9 wins successful 13 matches, portion SRH person 16 points from the aforesaid fig of games. A triumph for Hyderabad would support live their hopes of climbing to 2nd spot based connected Net Run Rate."I deliberation it's a agelong changeable finishing apical two, but we conscionable privation to springiness it a crack.
Want the boys to bask tonight," Cummins said astatine the toss.SRH’s determination to bat archetypal appeared well-judged, with the Hyderabad aboveground looking adust and even, offering accordant bounce and transportation - perfect conditions for strokeplay and assertive batting.Playing XIs:Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (wk), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, R Smaran, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Pat Cummins (capt), Shivang Kumar, Eshan Malinga, Sakib HussainImpact substitutes: Aniket Verma, Praful Hinge, Liam Livingstone, Harsh Dubey, Harshal PatelRoyal Challengers Bengaluru: Venkatesh Iyer, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (capt), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Suyash Sharma, Josh HazlewoodImpact substitutes: Tim David, Kanishk Chouhan, Swapnil Singh, Abhinandan Singh, Jordan Cox.
