Punjab Kings opening batter Abhishek Sharma devoted his match-winning century towards Punjab Kings to the followers of Sunrisers Hyderabad, taking out a observe for the ‘Orange Military’ after reaching the triple-digit rating on Saturday. Abhishek, who had been struggling for kind this complete marketing campaign, lastly got here to the shore as he smashed a record-breaking rating of 141 runs off simply 55 balls towards the high-flying Punjab facet. As Abhishek took out a observe from his pocket, after finishing his hundred, PBKS skipper Shreyas Iyer reached out to him and requested for the observe, curious to know what was written on it.
Iyer, who himself was elegant within the match, scoring 82 runs off 36 balls, failed to cover his curiosity as Abhishek devoted the observe to SRH followers. The truth that Iyer requested Abhishek to share the observe with him left everybody in splits.
Shreyas Iyer’s curiosity to see what was written on Abhishek’s observe #SRHvPBKSpic.twitter.com/me6CQnivzm
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Abhishek smacked a whopping 14 boundaries and 10 sixes over the course of his keep within the center. His runs got here at a strike price of 256.36.
“Particular point out to the group and captain. The environment was easy regardless that the batters weren’t doing nicely. It was a special occasion for each of us. [Any shot he liked ] In case you have seen me shut sufficient, I by no means play behind the wicket. However I wished to invent a number of photographs that had been very straightforward on this wicket. It helped us each. [On his parents being at the ground] I’ve been ready for them. My complete group was ready for my dad and mom as a result of they had been fortunate to have SRH. [Chat with Head] We did not speak about something. It was simply pure play for us. The partnership boosted me up.
“[His best knock?] This one may be very particular as a result of I wished to interrupt that dropping streak. Dropping 4 matches again to again was very powerful. However we by no means talked about it within the group. Particular point out to Yuvi paji and Suryakumar as nicely. They’ve been in contact with me,” Abhishek Sharma stated within the post-match presentation.
With this knock, Abhishek made historical past on Saturday, hitting the very best particular person rating by an Indian participant in Indian Premier League (IPL) historical past.
The 24-year-old participant has overtaken KL Rahul (132 towards Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2020) because the participant with the very best rating by an Indian in IPL historical past.
Total, subsequent to Chris Gayle (175* for RCB towards Pune Warriors India in 2013) and Brendon McCullum (for KKR towards RCB in 2008), that is the third-highest particular person rating in IPL historical past.
The teen hit 116 of his runs in boundaries, breaking the report of Jonny Bairstow (90) for many runs in an innings by an SRH batter through boundaries. Additionally, his 10 sixes are essentially the most by an SRH participant in an innings, overtaking David Warner’s eight.
With ANI Inputs
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