Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Abhishek Sharma performs a shot throughout the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket match towards Mumbai Indians on the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on March 27, 2024.
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Young left-handed batter Abhishek Sharma has stated the message from the team administration was fairly easy “go out and express yourself” as Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Mumbai Indians by 31 runs in an IPL match that witnessed records tumbling like ninepins.
Records tumbled as SRH batters went on the rampage to publish the best IPL whole of 277 for 3 towards MI on Wednesday night time.
It was scintillating exhibition of power-hitting from SRH opener Travis Head (62 off 24) and quantity three Sharma (63 off 23) with the latter registering his team’s report for the quickest fifty in IPL.
Heinrich Klaasen (80 not out off 34 balls) supplied the fireworks in the direction of the tip to assist SRH break an 11-year-old report. The earlier highest whole in IPL was 263 for five scored by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2013.
“To be honest I didn’t realise that it was the fastest fifty for SRH and for this year. I just wanted to go and express myself and after getting out I realised that it was the quickest. I enjoyed it,” stated ‘Man of the Match’ Sharma.
“I think the message was pretty much simple for all the batters in the meeting we had before this match. ‘Everyone just go and express yourself’. That’s a very positive message if you get it from your captain and coach. That’s really supportive for all the batters.”
Sharma and Head stitched 68 runs off simply 22 balls for the second wicket for SRH.
“I was batting with Travis and he is one of my favourite batters. I really enjoyed batting with him,” Sharma stated.
Sharma stated regardless of placing a mammoth whole on the board, it wasn’t a cakewalk for SRH as MI got here fairly shut.
Tilak Varma (64 off 34 balls) took the sport deep with a high-quality knock, comprising half-a-dozen sixes and, in the direction of the tip, Tim David (42 not out off 22) tried his greatest nevertheless it was not sufficient.
“When Tilak Varma, Hardik bhai and even Tim David were batting, we were still a bit, I won’t say worried but concerned. The way they were playing it was very good but we knew our bowlers were very much prepared for this kind of situation and they executed really well,” Sharma stated.
David stated on the midway stage they have been optimistic about chasing down the goal and ultimately got here fairly shut.
“It would have been pretty good as a spectator if you are sitting home or in the stands it was very entertaining, amazing match.
“We consider in our batting unit. We chased some excessive scores final 12 months. The speak was let’s simply stick to our course of and we have been maintaining with the speed at a sure level of time. Although we did not get the runs it was an important batting efficiency from us too,” he said.
The Australian, however, credited SRH for their all-round show.
“Credit to SRH, they bowled fairly nicely on the finish, took the tempo of the ball on a slowing pitch, it was fairly onerous to hit. But every little thing has to go proper if you’re to chase 278, that did not fairly occur however we bought fairly shut,” David said.
“They performed some wonderful pictures, credit score to their batsmen for placing the strain on any bowler. There is nothing a lot you are able to do to cease them in the event that they play good pictures. You bought to take (your) hat off when somebody performs nicely.”
