Abhishek Sharma may not have played in the T20 World Cup 2026, but he definitely played a explosive innings in the final against New Zealand. Now Abhishek seems ready to maintain the same rhythm in IPL 2026 also. Sunrisers players including Abhishek are preparing vigorously for the tournament starting from March 28 and in connection with this preparation, the team also played a practice match. In this practice match, the new captain of the team Ishan Kishan failed but Abhishek played a stormy innings and scored 94 runs.
Sunrisers Hyderabad played its first practice match on Saturday 21st March at its home ground Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. This match was played only between the squad players, who were divided into 2 teams. Out of it CoronationExplosive batsmen like Ishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Liam Livingston were in the same team.
Abhishek’s explosive innings
This team was batting first and for that the Ishan-Abhishek pair opened but Ishan Kishan was out after scoring only 18 runs in 14 balls. But from the other side, Abhishek Sharma started taking notice of the bowlers and hit sixes and fours. He completed his half-century in just 27 balls and even after that he remained at the crease for a long time.
Be it a spinner or a pacer, Abhishek did not spare anyone and kept trying to collect as many boundaries as possible. During this, he also hit some beautiful sixes over the straight boundaries and covers. In this attempt, he was finally caught out at the long off boundary and missed his century. He scored 94 runs in just 42 balls. Abhishek’s wicket was taken by England’s fast bowler Brydon Carse.
Will the bat work in the first match also?
The effect of Abhishek’s explosive batting was that at one time he and Heinrich Klaasen were together for around 15 runs. But after this, SRH’s young opener increased the pace so much that Classen kept watching. On the basis of this inning, Sunrisers had scored more than 160 runs in just 13 overs. Now Sunrisers will only hope that on March 28, when the team takes the field against defending champion Royal Challengers Bangalore in the first match of this season, Abhishek will show similar wonders.