Sunrisers Hyderabad's Travis Head, second from left, and Abhishek Sharma, right, greets Lucknow Super Giants after winning the Indian Premier League cricket match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Sup🗹er Giants in Hyderabad.
The opening pair of Travis He𝄹ad and Abhishek Sharma shared a massive 167-run stand as Sunrisers Hyderabad required just 58 balls to rout Lucknow Super Gi🍰ants by 10 wickets in the Indian Premier League on Wednesday. Head and Sharma cranked 16 fours and 14 sixes in an extraordinary display of power-hitting in the first-ever IPL game that saw so many runs being scored inside the first 10 overs. Head has been scoring consistently for the batting power-house of Hyderabad this season and raced to his half-century off 16 balls before he eventually finished on an unbeaten 89 off 30 balls. Sharma followed the Australian left-hander soon when he reached his 50 off 19 balls as they raced to century-stand inside the batting power play. Sharma regained his lost touch with an undefeated 75 off 28 balls. The win lifted Hyderabad to No. 3 with 14 points and more importantly gave it a healthy net run-rate of 0.41 with two home games to go. The huge defeat has pushed Lucknow in the tight corner for the playoffs with 12 points from 12 games.
Sunrisers Hyderabad's Travis Head, second from left, and Abhishek Sharma, right, greets Lucknow Super Giants after winning the Indian Premier League cricket match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Sup🗹er Giants in Hyderabad.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad's Travis Head plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants in Hyderabad.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad's Travis Head play♏s a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants in Hyderabad.
Lucknow 🐻Super Gi🍰ants' Ayush Badoni plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants in Hyderabad.
L🌟ucknow Super Giants' Nicholas Pooran plays a shot dur🌌ing the Indian Premier League cricket match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants in Hyderabad.
Sunrisers Hyderabad's captain Pat Cummi🍰ns, centre, celebrates the runout of Lucknow Super Giants' Krunal ✅Pandya with his teammates during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants in Hyderabad.
Lucknow S🌟uper Giไants' captain KL Rahul plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants in Hyderabad.
Sunrisers Hyderabad's Bhuvneshwar Kumar celebrates the wicket of Lucknow Super Giants' Marcus Stoinis with teammate Sa𒁃nvir Singh during the Indian Premier League cricket match b🌼etween Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants in Hyderabad.