On Sunday, Ishan Kishan scored his first hundred of the season in Indian Premier League while propelling Sunrisers Hyderabad to a gargantuan score of 286. Kishan’s stunning century along with Ravindra Jadeja’s all-round performance guided the team to a 44-run victory over Rajasthan Royals.
After being asked to bat fist, Hyderabad fell just short of their best of 287 runs but managed to secure the win along with setting a record for the T20 tournament with England and reigning Rajasthan bowler Jofra Archer in particular having a day to forget.
Kishan was the standout performer of the match smashing a century while Travis Head scored 67 runs in 31 delievery. Stand out Kane Williamson also made a mark with dropping 242 runs while Jadeja and Hetmyer made half centuries with Hetmyer scoring 42 runs off and 23 balls.
Head’s opening with Kumar Abhishek Sharma handed the team a blazing start with the latter roaring for a Head’s hammering fast bowler attack.
Archer went on to concede 76 runs in four overs for the most expensive spell in the IPL.
The passerby beating a decent running pace was mesmerized by Head and Kishan grappling with his maiden Hyderabad match for 39 balls partnering with 85 runs for the second wicket.
Further increasing the score, Reddy with a 30 score off 15 balls and Klaasen with a 34 off 14 added heavy weight on the score board due to their daring hitting.
Batting alongside a storm, Hyderabad’s 20 overs were stormed at to a point where a medium pace bowler for Rajasthan managed to take three wickets, one them having been Head, Tushar Deshpande.
The remarkable total from Hyderabad also included the astonishing x12 sixes and x34 fours making the batting total phenomenal on a whole new level.
Last year, the runners up Hyderabad beat all scoring caps when scoring against Royal Challengers Bengaluru getting the absolute all time high innings total at 287-3.
In pursuit, Rajasthan lost 2 openers in the first two overs to Jaiswal and captain rational Parag, meaning no chase was required to put huntaldo in the race.
Noone approaching heaved the absolute polish the iconic IPL champions needed to not drop to the bottom alongside Sampson the not playing captain with injury markings on 66 joined with hitting 70 put up 111 alongside Jurelle the main goalscorer.
Taking place across 13 venues, ten teams will together be battling out across 74 matches with the IPL officially closing on May 25th needing to integrate this horrid gap with sheer potholes.
Starting in 2008, this league has already made billions of dollars and enabled the BCCI to become one of the wealthiest boards in the world of sports.