Hyderabad
Abhishek Sharma’s century won the hearts of fans in IPL 2025 on Saturday. The Sunrisers Hyderabad opener scored 141 runs in 55 balls. In his innings, he hit 14 fours and 10 sixes. Abhishek’s innings helped Sunrisers Hyderabad to return to the victory. He shared a 171 -run partnership for the first wicket with Travis Head. Head could score 66 runs in 37 balls with the help of nine fours and three sixes.
Abhishek scored his first century of IPL career in 40 balls. He became the sixth batsman to score the fastest century in the IPL. As soon as he scored a century, Kavya Maran jumped from his seat happily. After this, she ran to Abhishek’s parents sitting nearby. Kavya embraced Abhisheka’s mother. Then shook hands with Abhishek’s father. IPL has also shared a video of this.
Abhishek told a special thing after the match. He said, ‘The whole team is waiting for my parents. They are very lucky for the team and the Orange Army. We only wanted to express and play the natural game. ‘ At the same time, Abhishek’s mother also expressed happiness over a century and victory. He said, ‘Everyone is happy, the whole of Hyderabad is happy, the mother is also happy that we have won the match. A little stop was installed, but it would not be seen now.
Hyderabad wins by eight wickets
Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Punjab Kings by eight wickets on the strength of Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head’s stormy partnership. In the match played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Saturday, Punjab, after winning the toss, came out to bat first and scored 245 runs losing six wickets in 20 overs. In response, the runner -up team of the previous season scored 247 runs losing two wickets in 18.3 overs and won the match. Its Sach Hyderabad achieved the second largest goal in IPL history. Earlier, Punjab Kings achieved the biggest target against Kolkata in the last season by scoring 262/2 runs.
The Hyderabad opening pair, chasing a target of 246 runs, appeared in their color. Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma had a big partnership of 171 runs for the first wicket. This is the second major partnership played by an opening pair for Hyderabad. The case is at the top Johnny Bairstow and David Warner, who partnered 185 runs against RCB in 2019. Apart from Abhishek and Head, Henrik Klassen scored 21 and Ishaan Kishan scored nine runs and remained unbeaten. For Punjab, Arshdeep Singh and Yuzvendra Chahal took one wicket each.
