SRH thump RR in IPL
Sunrisers Hyderabad posted 216/6 and then bowled Rajasthan Royals out for 159 on April 16, with debutants Praful Hinge and Sakib Hussain each taking four wickets in the match. (x.com) Two four‑wicket hauls by new players flipped the game and give SRH fresh bowling options for the run into the middle of the IPL season. (x.com)
Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Rajasthan Royals by 57 runs in Hyderabad after posting 216 for 6 and then dismissing the league leaders for 159. (iplt20.com) Ishan Kishan, captaining Sunrisers Hyderabad, made 91 from 44 balls with eight fours and six sixes, and Heinrich Klaasen added 40 from 26 as the home side recovered from Abhishek Sharma’s first-ball duck on April 13. (espncricinfo.com) Rajasthan Royals were chasing 217 when Sunrisers Hyderabad handed Indian Premier League debuts to Praful Hinge and Sakib Hussain, and the pair returned combined figures of 8 for 58. Hinge took 4 for 34 and Sakib took 4 for 24. (espncricinfo.com) Hinge’s spell changed the match in his first over, when he removed Yashasvi Jaiswal, Nitish Rana and Riyan Parag. ESPNcricinfo said no bowler in the tournament’s 18-year history had taken three wickets in his first over on debut before Hinge did it here. (espncricinfo.com) The result ended Rajasthan Royals’ four-match winning streak and handed them their first defeat of the 2026 season. It also stopped Sunrisers Hyderabad’s two-match slide. (espncricinfo.com) Rajasthan Royals still found runs through Donovan Ferreira, who made 69, and Ravindra Jadeja, who made 45, but they were 50 for 3 inside four overs and never brought the asking rate under control. The chase ended in 19 overs. (espncricinfo.com) The batting card showed how Sunrisers Hyderabad built the total in phases. Kishan and Klaasen took them to 143 for 3 in 13.2 overs, Nitish Kumar Reddy hit 28 from 13, and wicketkeeper Salil Arora finished unbeaten on 24 from 13. (espncricinfo.com) For Rajasthan Royals, Jofra Archer took 2 for 37 and struck with the first ball of the match, but the bowlers still conceded 10.80 runs an over. Rajasthan Royals then lost by a margin of 57 runs after being bowled out with six balls unused. (espncricinfo.com) Praful Hinge was named player of the match, and Sunrisers Hyderabad left with a scoreline built on one established batter and two new bowlers. Rajasthan Royals left with their first loss after four straight wins. (espncricinfo.com)
