Sunrisers Hyderabad’s batting line-up has proved to be the most explosive in the IPL for the last two seasons. Due to batsmen like Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen, Ishan Kishan, this team has come close to 300 runs 2-3 times. However, the team did not get title success and SRH would like to achieve this destination this season. Whether this will happen or not will be known after the start of the season, but even before that it has become clear that another explosive batsman has entered SRH, who gave away sixes to the bowlers in the practice match.
SRH, which has been preparing for the last few days at its home ground in Hyderabad, played an intra-squad match for the first time on March 21, so that the players could get a chance to practice according to the match. In this Abhishek Sharma Played an explosive innings and scored 94 runs. Apart from him, Heinrich Klaasen also scored a lot of runs, while Ishan Kishan failed. But apart from these famous stars, 23 year old batsman Salil Arora also caught everyone’s attention.
Salil Arora’s explosive batting
Salil, who has performed strongly in domestic cricket, also showed a glimpse of the coming storm in IPL in the practice match. After the innings of Abhishek Sharma and Heinrich Klaasen, Salil, who came to bat in the middle order, destroyed the bowlers and scored 48 runs in just 16 balls. That means his strike rate was exactly 300. He was out on the 17th ball, which was the last ball of the innings.
Another batting powerhouse from Sunrisers Hyderabad – Salil Arora
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— Sunrisers Army (@srhorangerarmy) March 21, 2026
During this inning, Salil also hit 5 sixes in 5 consecutive balls. First, he hit sixes on the last two balls of Jaydev Unadkat’s over. Then in the next over, as soon as he came on strike, he hit 3 more sixes in a row. On the basis of this, the batsmen took the score beyond 240 runs in 20 overs.
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— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) March 21, 2026
Scored a century in Mushtaq Ali Trophy
With this innings, the right-handed batsman has presented his claim to the team management. Now whether there is a place for him in the playing-11 or not, it will be known after the start of the season. Salil Arora, who played for Punjab in domestic cricket, was bought by SRH in the auction for Rs 1.50 crore, which was 5 times more than his base price of Rs 30 lakh. Before the auction, Salil had won accolades by scoring a blistering 125 runs in just 45 balls in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

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