Sunrisers Hyderabad ended their IPL 2024 league round on a winning note. They chased down a 215-run target against the Punjab Kings to rise up to the second position in the standings.
Abhishek Sharma was the hero for the Orange Army in this game. After Travis Head got out for a golden duck, Sharma launched a counter-attack and scored 66 runs off 28 deliveries to help the Hyderabad-based franchise chase down the mammoth target.
Earlier in the match, Atharva Taide and Prabhsimran Singh’s 97-run opening stand placed PBKS in a commanding position. Here’s an in-depth look at this IPL 2024 game.
List of all award winners in SRH vs PBKS match, IPL 2024
Abhishek Sharma unsurprisingly won the Electric Striker of the Match award. The Sunrisers Hyderabad opener blasted a 28-ball 66 at a strike rate of 235.71. He also won the Player of the Match and Super Sixes award.
Punjab Kings opener Prabhsimran Singh won the other two awards at the post-match presentation ceremony. Here is the complete list of award winners:
Electric Striker of the Match: Abhishek Sharma (Strike rate of 235.71)
Ultimate Fantasy Player of the Match: Prabhsimran Singh (102 fantasy points)
Super Sixes of the Match: Abhishek Sharma (6 sixes)
Most Fours in the Match: Prabshimran Singh (7 fours)
Player of the Match: Abhishek Sharma (66 off 28).
SRH vs PBKS scorecard
Prabhsimran Singh was the top-scorer for the Punjab Kings. The uncapped batter ended his IPL 2024 tournament on a high with a 71-run knock, comprising seven fours and four sixes. He received fine support from Atharva Taide and Rilee Rossouw, who chipped in with 40+ scores each. Captain Jitesh Sharma finished the innings in style with an unbeaten 15-ball 32.
T Natarajan was the best bowler for the home team. The left-arm fast bowler finished with figures of 2/33 in four overs, dismissing Taide and Ashutosh Sharma in his four-over spell.
Sunrisers Hyderabad lost Travis Head’s wicket on the first ball itself, but Abhishek Sharma and Rahul Tripathi stitched up a 72-run partnership for the second wicket inside five overs. Then, Nitish Kumar Reddy scored a 25-ball 37, while Heinrich Klaasen amassed 42 runs off 26 deliveries.
Arshdeep Singh and Harshal Patel scalped two wickets each. However, their efforts went in vain as Punjab Kings lost by four wickets.
SRH vs PBKS, IPL 2024: Top records and stats from Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings match
It was a high-scoring thriller between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings last evening in IPL 2024. Here’s a quick glance at the top stats emerging from this contest:
- Travis Head got out on the first ball of the innings against Punjab Kings. This was the 8th time in IPL history that PBKS dismissed an opposition batter on the first ball. Mumbai Indians (9 times) are the only team to have achieved this feat on more occasions.
- This was PBKS’ fourth defeat while defending a target of 200 or more. Only Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Chennai Super Kings (5 times) have done so on more occasions.
- Abhishek Sharma took 21 balls to complete his half-century against PBKS. Surprisingly, it was his slowest fifty of the season.
