Watch: Abhishek Sharma smashes successive towering sixes in SRH vs PBKS IPL 2026 clash

The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 clash between the Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Punjab Kings at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium was expected to be a high-scoring contest with a flurry of boundaries and over boundaries from both sides’ strong top order, as fans geared up for an exciting contest. 

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The visiting captain, Shreyas Iyer, won the toss and decided to bowl first on a surface that was a belter for the batting department. Both sides wanted to bowl first, given the presence of the dew and how good it had been in this edition.

Abhishek Sharma nails successive huge sixes in IPL 2026

The first ball of the fixture was a yorker just outside the off stump from the left-arm pacer, Arshdeep Singh, at the left-handed opener, Abhishek Sharma, who managed to dig it out of the hole to the off side. But on the very next delivery, he showed his real colour.

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The Punjab pacer pitched it up and put the ball in the slot of the southpaw, who got under it nicely and smacked the ball over the long-off region for a massive six. He just hit it through the line. 

Abhishek welcomed Marco Jansen’s very first over with another six. The South African pacer made the mistake of putting the ball in his arc as the batter again went under it and lofted it to the long-off region with a lovely bat swing as the ball went a long way.

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He backed it up with a boundary after the ball was banged in short on the stumps. The World Cup-winner pulled it away to the fine leg region before hanging back and smashing the length delivery down the ground for another six. 

He was finally dismissed on 35 runs off 13 balls with the help of two boundaries and four sixes.

SRH make firing start inside powerplay vs PBKS

Sunrisers Hyderabad side brought up their fifty in just 3.2 overs, which is the third fastest of their IPL history, after 2.4 overs against the Delhi Capitals in 2024 and the 3.1 overs against the Lucknow Super Giants in the same edition. Abhishek’s 35 runs were the first score under fifty against Punjab in the last four games.

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SRH ended the powerplay with 79 runs for the loss of one wicket before Yuzvendra Chahal sent back Travis Head for 38 runs in 19 balls. The PBKS side made the mistake of dropping the regulation catch of Travis Head.

Brief Scores (at the time of writing): SRH- 118/2 (Travis Head 38, Yuvzendra Chahal 1/20) vs PBKS. 

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