Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) faced Punjab Kings (PBKS) in the 69th match of the Indian Premier League 2024 on Sunday, May 19, at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. PBKS won the toss and elected to bat.
Atharva Taide and Prabhsimran Singh provided a dream start to PBKS and added 97 runs for the first wicket. Rilee Rossouw and Jitesh Sharma also made some important contributions. Prabhsimran was the highest scorer for the team with 71 runs off 45 deliveries.
PBKS scored 214 runs for the loss of five wickets in 20 overs. T Natarajan was the pick of the bowlers for SRH, taking two wickets for 33 runs in four overs.
SRH lost their first wicket on the very first delivery of their innings. However, the other batters didn’t let the chase get derailed. Abhishek Sharma was again at his best and played a knock of 66 runs off 28 deliveries. The middle-order batters made some decent contributions as well.
SRH reached the target of 215 runs in 19.1 overs with four wickets in hand. Arshdeep Singh and Harshal Patel took two wickets each for PBKS.
IPL 2024 Most Runs List
Virat Kohli is still the leading run-scorer with 708 runs in 14 games at a strike rate of 155.60. Ruturaj Gaikwad is second with 583 runs in 14 outings at a strike rate of 141.16.
Travis Head is third with 533 runs to his name in 12 matches, while Riyan Parag is in fourth position with 531 runs in 13 matches. Sai Sudharsan is fifth with 527 runs in 12 outings, whereas KL Rahul is in sixth position with 520 runs in 14 matches at a strike rate of 136.12.
Sanju Samson is in seventh place with 504 runs in 13 innings at a strike rate of 156.52. Nicholas Pooran is eighth with 499 runs to his name in 14 games. Abhishek Sharma has jumped to ninth place with 467 runs in 13 innings at a strike rate of 209.41.
Sunil Narine has moved to 10th from ninth with 461 runs to his name in 12 outings at an average of 38.41.
IPL 2024 Most Wickets List
Harshal Patel is still the leading wicket-taker this season with 24 wickets in 14 games. Jasprit Bumrah is in second place and has 20 wickets to his name in 13 matches.
Arshdeep Singh has jumped to third place from sixth with 19 wickets in 14 games. Varun Chakravarthy has slipped to fourth with 18 wickets in 12 games.
Mukesh Kumar has moved to fifth position from fourth with 17 wickets to his name in 10 games. T Natarajan has jumped to sixth place with 17 wickets in 11 games.
Tushar Deshpande has moved to seventh from fifth position and has picked up 17 wickets in 13 matches. Yuzvendra Chahal is eighth with 17 wickets in 13 matches.
Khaleel Ahmed is ninth with 17 wickets in 14 matches at a strike rate of 17.64. Harshit Rana has slipped to 10th position with 16 wickets in nine innings.