Sunrisers Hyderabad pulled off a sensational four-wicket win over Punjab Kings in their last league stage game of the IPL 2024 on Sunday. In-form batters Abhishek Sharma and Heinrich Klaasen pulled off brilliant knocks to help Sunrisers chase down their joint-highest 215-run target with five balls remaining.
A win boosted Sunrisers Hyderabad to the second position in the points table while Punjab Kings finished their IPL 2024 campaign at the ninth spot. However, Rajasthan Royal are facing Kolkata Knight Riders in the double-header fixture on Sunday and a win will take the former to second position.
Prabhsimran Singh top-scored with 71 runs off 45 balls to help Punjab Kings post a challenging total of 214/5 while batting first at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Hyderabad lost their in-form opener Travis Head on the very first ball but Abhishek smashed 66 off 28 balls and then Heinrich Klaasen scored 42 runs to power the hosts to an easy chase.
Punjab Kings Playing XI: Prabhsimran Singh, Rilee Rossouw, Atharva Taide, Shashank Singh, Jitesh Sharma (c & wk), Ashutosh Sharma, Shivam Singh, Harpreet Brar, Rishi Dhawan, Harshal Patel, Rahul Chahar.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sanvir Singh, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, T Natarajan.
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