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Sunrisers Hyderabad opener Abhishek Sharma played a brilliant knock in the IPL 2026 match against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens on Thursday, April 2. He attacked aggressively in the power play, especially against Varun Chakravarthy , scoring 24 runs in one over (not counting a wide).
Abhishek started the over with a huge six in the fifth over, smashing a flighted ball over long-on into the crowd. He then hit another six over extra cover on the third ball and followed it up with three consecutive boundaries, completely dominating the over.
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During his innings, Abhishek Sharma scored 48 runs off just 21 balls at an impressive strike rate of 228.57, hitting four sixes and four fours.
Explosive start for Sunrisers Hyderabad vs KKR
Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma gave Sunrisers Hyderabad a great start after Ajinkya Rahane, captain of Kolkata Knight Riders, chose to bowl first in the IPL 2026 match. Head played aggressively, scoring 46 runs off 21 balls with three sixes and six fours. The opening pair added 82 runs in just 34 balls before Kartik Tyagi broke their partnership.
Soon after, Blessing Muzarabani picked up two big wickets in the ninth over, dismissing captain Ishan Kishan (14 off 9) and Abhishek. Anukul Roy then got rid of the in-form Aniket Verma for just one run. At the time of writing, SRH were 118/4 in 9.2 overs, with Heinrich Klaasen and Nitish Kumar Reddy batting.
Both teams are looking for their first win in IPL 2026. KKR and SRH lost their opening matches by six wickets to Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bengaluru respectively. Overall, KKR have a strong record against SRH with 20 wins compared to 10, but SRH had crushed KKR by 110 runs in their last meeting in IPL 2025.