Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma started to show the violence in the beginning, everyone assumed – Sunrisers Hyderabad will break all the records in the history of T20 today. In the previous match they made a record score of 287 runs. Breaking their own record of 277 runs. Today may break that record too.
When a team scores 100 runs in the first 5 overs, that’s what fans expect; But as Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma returned, Hyderabad’s run rate stalled. The record is not done. Couldn’t even get close to the innings of 287 runs in the previous match. Hyderabad’s innings stopped at 266 for 7 wickets.
The way Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma created a storm in the first 5 overs, one can feel that Sunrisers Hyderabad are changing the definition of T20 cricket. Fours and sixes almost every ball they fielded. Facing the Delhi Capitals, the two openers of Sunrisers Hyderabad again went on a batting rampage.
Delhi captain Rishabh Pant won the toss and invited Hyderabad to bat at the Feroz Shah Kotla (now Arun Jaitley Stadium) in Delhi. Travis Head started by hitting Khalil Ahmed for a six on the second ball he came in to bat. Both the openers then hit four-six celebrations.
These two batsmen scored 100 runs in just 30 balls (5 overs). This is probably the fastest century pair in T20 history. Travis Head completed his half century in just 16 balls. He hit 4 sixes with 7 boundaries.
Delhi managed to break the opening pair in the 7th over. Kuldeep Yadav dismissed Abhishek Sharma who scored 46 off 12 balls. He hit 6 sixes with 2 boundaries. Abhishek was dismissed in the 131st run.
Travis Head went close to his second consecutive century. He played an innings of 89 runs off 31 balls. In the 32nd ball, he could not get it past the boundary while hitting a low ball from Kuldeep Yadav. Tristan gets caught by Stubbs. By that time he hit 11 boundaries and 6 sixes.
Henrik Klaasen, another batsman who stormed the bat, couldn’t do much today. He got out after scoring 15 runs off 8 balls. Nitish Kumar Reddy played an innings of 37 runs off 27 balls. But Shahbaz Ahmed stormed. That’s why Hyderabad’s innings crossed two and a half hundred. He remained unbeaten with 59 runs off 29 balls. Shahbaz hit 5 sixes with 2 boundaries.
Delhi bowler Kuldeep Yadav took 4 wickets with 55 runs in 4 overs. Mukesh Kumar and Akshar Patel took 1 wicket each.
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