Sunrisers Hyderabad Practice Match Before IPL 2026: Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 is going to start from March 28. Before the start of this tournament, Sunrisers Hyderabad tested their explosive batting. Before the IPL, a practice match was played between SRH A and SRH B, in which the Sunrisers batsmen gave a tough class to their own bowlers. Abhishek Sharma missed scoring a century in this practice match, but his bat resulted in an excellent inning of 94 runs in just 42 balls for SRH A.
This match was played at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium
In this practice match played at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad, SRH A scored 253 runs for 9 wickets. During this, Heinrich Klaasen scored 49 runs in 31 balls, while uncapped Indian player Salil Arora scored 47 runs in 16 balls. SRH A batted 21 overs. Jaydev Unadkat took 5 wickets for 48 runs in 5 overs, while Nitish Kumar Reddy also took three wickets.
SRH B scored 282 runs
While batting, SRH B team scored 282 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. During this, Ishan Kishan played a brilliant inning of 72 runs in just 25 balls. Salil Arora also batted for SRH B and this time he scored 56 runs in 26 balls. Harsh Dubey contributed 37 unbeaten runs on 14 balls with his bat. Harshal Patel took 3 wickets for 45 runs in 4 overs.
Sunrisers Hyderabad will play the first match of IPL 2026
Sunrisers Hyderabad team will take the field in the first match of IPL 2026 itself. In this match, SRH will face the challenge of defending champion Royal Challengers Bangalore. Ishan Kishan will captain the team in this match, because Pat Cummins is still not fully fit. For this reason, Ishan Kishan has been given the responsibility of captaincy. Under the captaincy of Ishaan, Jharkhand won the title of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025.

