IPL 2024 PBKS vs SRH Highlights: Sunrisers Hyderabad registered their 3rd victory of the season by beating Punjab Kings by just 2 runs.
Arshdeep Singh Dismissed Travis Head, Markram in the Same Over
Punjab Kings bowler Arshdeep Singh made a massive breakthrough by dismissing dangerous Travis Head and Aiden Markram in the same over during the PBKS vs SRH clash.
Travis Head played a massive role in SRH’s record-breaking inning against Mumbai where the team scored a whopping 277 runs in their first inning. Markram also made a decent contribution in the game by scoring 42 runs off 28 balls.
Though SRH lost a couple of wickets cheaply, Nitish Reddy with his 37 ball 64 runs led the team towards a safe zone.
Speaking on the game, Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to bowl first where Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma opened the inning for SRH. SRH made a steady start by scoring 4 and 6 runs in the first two overs respectively.
But SRH made a gear change in the 3rd over where Head slammed Rabada for 16 runs. Arshdeep Singh who bowled the next over just flipped the entire inning by dismissing Head(21) and Markram(0) in the same over.
Following his extraordinary spell, Sam Curran in the next over dismissed Abhishek Sharma for 16 runs and loads pressure over the SRH batting lineup. At the end of the powerplay, SRH scored 40 runs for 3 wickets and registered their lowest total in powerplay this season.
While Rahul Tripathi and Nitish Reddy started to build a partnership, Harshal Patel in the 4th ball of the 10th over broke the partnership by dismissing Tripathi for 11 runs. With a wicket of the 10th over, SRH scored 66 runs for 4 wickets loss at the end of 10 overs.
With Nitish Reddy’s explosive 64 runs off 37 balls, Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 182 runs for 9 wickets loss at the end of 20 overs.
On the other hand, while chasing Punjab Kings struggled after losing their top three batters for low scores.
Cummins dismissed Jonny Bairstow for a three-ball duck and drew the first blood for PBKS. Bhuvneshwar Kumar on his behalf dismissed Shikhar Dhawan and Prabhsimran Singh for 14 and 4 runs respectively and scattered Punjab’s top order.
At the end of the powerplay, PBKS scored 27 runs for 3 wickets loss. Following the top-order batters’ failure, Sikandar Raza and Sam Curran made a steady partnership for the 4th wicket but the partnership was broken by T Natarajan by dismissing Sam Curran for 29 runs.
At the end of 10 overs, Punjab Kings scored 66 runs for 4 wickets loss and were in need of building a match-winning partnership between Shashank Singh and S Raza.
But Jaydev Unadkat dismissed Raza for 28 runs and broke the partnership. Though Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma made some aggressive shots towards the end, they fell just 2 runs short for the victory.
IPL 2024 PBKS vs SRH Highlights
Sunrisers Hyderabad Batting
| BATTING | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Travis Head | c Dhawan b Arshdeep Singh | 21 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 140 |
| Abhishek Sharma | c Shashank Singh b Curran | 16 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 145.45 |
| Aiden Markram | c †JM Sharma b Arshdeep Singh | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nitish Kumar Reddy | c Rabada b Arshdeep Singh | 64 | 37 | 4 | 5 | 172.97 |
| Rahul Tripathi | c †JM Sharma b Patel | 11 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 78.57 |
| Heinrich Klaasen †| c Curran b Patel | 9 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Abdul Samad | c Patel b Arshdeep Singh | 25 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 208.33 |
| Shahbaz Ahmed | not out | 14 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 200 |
| Pat Cummins (c) | b Rabada | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75 |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | c Bairstow b Curran | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 75 |
| Jaydev Unadkat | not out | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 600 |
Punjab Kings Bowling
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
| Kagiso Rabada | 4 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Arshdeep Singh | 4 | 0 | 29 | 4 | 7.25 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Sam Curran | 4 | 0 | 41 | 2 | 10.25 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Harshal Patel | 4 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 7.5 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Harpreet Brar | 4 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Punjab Kings BattingÂ
| BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Shikhar Dhawan (c) | st †Klaasen b Kumar | 14 | 16 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 87.5 |
| Jonny Bairstow | b Cummins | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Prabhsimran Singh | c Nitish Kumar Reddy b Kumar | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 |
| Sam Curran | c Cummins b Natarajan | 29 | 22 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 131.81 |
| Sikandar Raza | c †Klaasen b Unadkat | 28 | 22 | 38 | 2 | 2 | 127.27 |
| Shashank Singh | not out | 46 | 25 | 51 | 6 | 1 | 184 |
| Jitesh Sharma †| c Abhishek Sharma b Nitish Kumar Reddy | 19 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 172.72 |
| Ashutosh Sharma | not out | 33 | 15 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 220 |
Sunrisers Hyderabad Bowling
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 4 | 1 | 32 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Pat Cummins | 4 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 5.5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T Natarajan | 4 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 8.25 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nitish Kumar Reddy | 3 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Jaydev Unadkat | 4 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 12.25 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| Shahbaz Ahmed | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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