IPL 2026: Abhishek Sharma-Ishan Kishan’s performance overshadows Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s century in Jaipur run chase. cricket news
Achieved a big target against Sunrisers Hyderabad Rajasthan Royals On Saturday, they were defeated by five wickets at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium after chasing 229 runs with nine balls to spare in IPL 2026.Young sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 103 runs for Rajasthan Royals and scored the third fastest century in IPL history, completing his century in just 36 balls. But their innings ended in defeat as SRH’s batting unit came together to complete the fourth-highest run chase in IPL history.This came just hours after Punjab Kings chased a target of 265 against Delhi Capitals in New Delhi, becoming the most successful target chase in IPL history.For SRH, Ishan Kishan Chased the target by scoring 74 runs in 31 balls, while Abhishek Sharma scored 57 runs in 29 balls after getting two lives in the innings.Heinrich Klaasen added 29 runs and Nitish Kumar Reddy scored 36 runs. Klaasen and Nitish added 53 runs for the fourth wicket to take SRH closer before finishing the job comfortably.Rajasthan Royals used eight bowling options, but poor fielding hurt them badly.He dropped Abhishek Sharma twice. Firstly, Shimron Hetmyer moved away to third man when Abhishek took a straight hit at him off the bowling of Nandre Berger. Later, Tushar Deshpande bowled a low fulltoss and Abhishek sent it to Ravindra Jadeja at backward point, but the catch was again missed.RR also missed another chance when Brijesh Sharma had Nitish Reddy caught behind off the bowling of Jofra Archer when they were on 14.Earlier in the innings, Dhruv Jurel had also dropped the catch of Travis Head on the ball of Archer in the first over. Head had scored only 6 runs but Archer had him caught behind the wicket.Archer also tested Ishan Kishan with a short ball with a speed of 145.4 kmph, which took the edge and hit him on the helmet and ran away for four runs. Kishan recovered quickly and hit three fours off Archer’s balls.After this Abhishek and Kishan took control of the game. He added 132 runs in just 55 balls for the second wicket and kept SRH well ahead in the chase.Earlier, Rajasthan Royals scored 228 runs for six wickets thanks to another strong innings from 15-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi.He scored 103 runs in 37 balls with the help of 12 sixes and five fours. He completed his century by hitting a six off Shakib Hussain on his 36th ball, which became the third fastest century in IPL history after his 35-ball century last year and Chris Gayle’s 30-ball century for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2013.Suryavanshi got an early lease of life when he was on 32 when Aniket Verma dropped his catch at deep midwicket off Ishan Malinga.He made SRH pay for that mistake and completed his half-century in just 15 balls with a six in the sixth over.He added 40 runs in 14 balls for the first wicket and then made a partnership of 112 runs for the second wicket with Dhruv Jurel, who scored 51 runs in 35 balls.After reaching his century, Suryavanshi was out immediately as he missed to scoop the ball from Saqib Hussain and was out LBW.Pat Cummins returned for SRH and finished with figures of 4-0-27-1, his only wicket being that of RR skipper Riyan Parag for 7 runs.
