In the 27th match of IPL season 19, Hyderabad defeated Chennai Super Kings by 10 runs. With this, they won their third consecutive match. Abhishek Sharma batted brilliantly in this victory. He scored 59 runs off 22 balls with the help of 6 fours and 4 sixes. Abhishek’s innings helped Hyderabad to score 194 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. CSK could only score 184 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs.
Abhishek Sharma creates history – In the history of IPL, Abhishek Sharma has become the only batsman to score a half-century in less than 20 balls against both Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. In this match, Abhishek scored a half-century in 15 balls against CSK. In 2024, he achieved the feat of scoring a half-century in 16 balls against Mumbai Indians. Not only that, after 80 IPL innings, no other Indian batsman has a higher strike rate than Abhishek. During this innings, Abhishek also completed 2000 runs in IPL.
Abhishek is the fastest half-century scorer for SRH
15 balls: Abhishek vs CSK (2026)
16 balls: Abhishek vs Mumbai (2024)
16 balls: Head vs Delhi (2024)
16 balls: Head vs Lucknow (2024)
17 balls: Klaasen vs Kolkata (2024)
Joined the 2000-run club – Hyderabad opening batsman Abhishek Sharma has completed 2000 runs in IPL. He crossed the milestone by scoring 59 runs off 22 balls in the match against Chennai. He hit 6 fours and 4 sixes in this innings. He reached his half-century in just 15 balls. This was his 11th half-century in the IPL. He made his debut for Delhi in 2018. He got the opportunity to play only 3 matches in that season. Hyderabad bought him in the 2019 season. Since then, Abhishek’s dominance has continued. He has played 83 matches and has scored a total of 2004 runs with 11 half-centuries and one century.
He is the first player to reach a half-century in less than 20 balls six times in the IPL. Abhishek is the fourth highest run-scorer for Hyderabad. Only David Warner has scored 4014 runs for Hyderabad, while Shikhar Dhawan has scored 2518 runs and Kane Williamson has scored 2101 runs.
