Sai Sudarshan handled Gujarat with his inningsImage Credit source: PTI
IPL match, Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and Gujarat Titans team on the field. Whenever this happens, it is certain that Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan will play big innings. Usually both do this together. Still, sometimes if one batsman of this opening pair is out, the other one takes charge for the team. In the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2026, this responsibility was performed by Sudarshan, whose bat scored the third consecutive half-century.
Gujarat was facing Hyderabad in the 56th match of the season on Tuesday, May 12 at Modi Stadium. There was a competition between the two teams to reach first place in the points table. Host Gujarat was batting first in this match but contrary to expectations, the team had a very poor start. Captain Shubman Gill And star batsman Jos Buttler was out in the powerplay itself, while only 34 runs could be scored in the first 6 overs.
Sudarshan scored a hat-trick of half centuries
Despite such situation, Sai Sudarshan continued the process of scoring runs from one end for the team. Despite being in form, Sudarshan was having trouble hitting big shots due to Sunrisers’ tight bowling and slightly slow pitch. Still, this left-handed batsman did not give up his weapons and kept increasing the team’s score. Ultimately he took the team beyond 100 runs and during this he completed his half-century in 38 balls, which was his third consecutive half-century and fifth overall in this season.
Reached beyond 500 in IPL 2026
Sai Sudarshan was finally out in the 17th over on the bowling of Shakib Hussain. He played an inning of 61 runs in 44 balls. With this, he became the first batsman to cross the 500-run mark in IPL 2026. Before this match he had scored 440 runs. With this innings, he also became number-1 in the race of batsmen scoring the most runs. Not only this, this was the sixth time in this season when Sudarshan crossed the figure of more than 50. He has scored 5 half-centuries and one century.
