In the 21st match of IPL 2026, Sunrisers Hyderabad registered a spectacular victory by defeating Rajasthan Royals by 57 runs. Batting first in this match played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad scored a strong score of 216 runs for 6 wickets. In reply, the entire Rajasthan team was reduced to 159 runs.

Kishan’s brilliant innings

Captain Kishan batted brilliantly for Sunrisers and played a explosive inning of 91 runs in 44 balls. Fast strokeplay and aggressive shots were seen in his innings. Apart from this, Heinrich Klaasen scored 40 runs in 26 balls, while Nitish Kumar Reddy contributed 28 runs. Salil Arora also took the team to a strong score by scoring 24 runs in 13 balls. In bowling for Rajasthan, Jofra took 2 wickets, while Sandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande and Ryan Parag got 1-1 success.

Rajasthan Royals, who set out to chase the target of 217 runs, had a very bad start. The young fast bowlers of Sunrisers wreaked havoc from the very beginning. 24 year old Prafulla Hinge gave three big blows in the first over in his debut match. He sent Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel and Luan-Dre Pretorius to the pavilion without opening the account. After this, 21-year-old Saqib Hussain dismissed Yashasvi Jaiswal for just 1 run. Half of the Rajasthan team was under pressure in the first three overs itself.

Donovan Ferreira scored a fifty

In the third over, Hinge also dismissed captain Riyan Parag and Rajasthan’s score became 5 wickets for 9 runs. From here the match completely went in favor of Sunrisers. However, after this Jadeja and Donovan Ferreira tried to make a comeback by making a partnership of 118 runs. Ferreira scored 69 runs, while Jadeja played an inning of 45 runs.

But this partnership could not last long. Saqib Hussain broke this partnership by dismissing Ferreira, while later Ishan Malinga ended Rajasthan’s hopes by sending Jadeja to the pavilion. In the end the entire team collapsed for 159 runs and Sunrisers Hyderabad won the match by 57 runs.