50 matches of IPL 2026 have been played. Till now no team has been able to secure its place for the playoffs, nor has any team been officially out of the race for the playoffs. There are only Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants, who will now be able to reach only 14 points even after winning all their matches. Their fate will be decided by the results of other matches. Punjab has slipped from the top position after losing 3 consecutive matches, 3 bowlers of this team are included in the list of top-5 bowlers who have given 60 or more runs in a match.

If we look at the data after 50 matches in the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League, out of the top-5 bowlers who gave the most runs in a match, 3 are from Punjab Kings. Arshdeep Singh is also included in this. While the other 2 are bowlers from Sunrisers Hyderabad. And both these teams are currently on top-2 in the points table.

1. Xavier Bartlett

In the ongoing edition, the bowler who has given the most runs in a match is Xavier Bartlett. This bowler, playing for Punjab Kings, had conceded 69 runs in his spell of 4 overs against Delhi Capitals on April 25. This is the same match in which KL Rahul had scored unbeaten 152 runs. However, Delhi lost the match even after scoring 264 runs.

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2. Arshdeep Singh

Punjab Kings bowlers are also at second place. Arshdeep Singh gave away 68 runs in his spell of 4 overs against Rajasthan Royals on 28 April. He was able to take only 1 wicket. This match was played at the home ground (Mullanpur) of Punjab only.

3. Saqib Hussain

Sunrisers Hyderabad fast bowler Saqib Hussain is at third place in the list, this is his first IPL season. He has impressed a lot with his bowling so far, Hussain took 4 wickets in his very first match. But on April 25, he gave away 62 runs in his spell of 4 overs. In this match, Punjab had achieved the target of 265 runs.

4. marco yansen

At number four is Marco Jansen, who gave 61 runs in his spell of 4 overs against Sunrisers Hyderabad on May 6 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Punjab had lost in this match, which was their third consecutive defeat.

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5. Praful Hinge

Praful Hinge, who is in Sunrisers Hyderabad, is at fifth place in the list of bowlers giving the most runs in a match. Hinge had given 60 runs in his spell of 4 overs against Chennai Super Kings on 18 April.

Sunrisers Hyderabad has defeated Chennai Super Kings by 12 runs. In this match played in Hyderabad, SRH team batted first and scored 194 runs. At one time the Chennai team was moving towards an easy victory, because it needed 84 runs in the last 10 overs. Ishan Malinga came in the middle overs and gave a double blow to Chennai. Shivam Dubey was Chennai’s last hope, but the entire CSK team got frustrated due to the deadly bowling of Saqib Hussain and Nitish Kumar Reddy.

Chennai lost the won game

Chennai Super Kings team, which came to chase the target of 195 runs, had at one time scored 111 runs in 10 overs and had 7 wickets left in their hands. CSK needed 84 runs in 60 balls. With 7 wickets in hand, victory seemed very easy for Chennai. Then Ishan Malinga dismissed Sarfaraz Khan on the fourth ball of the 11th over. It was from here that the match took a turn.

Dewald Brevis also left after 6 balls of Sarfaraz. Somehow Ishan Malinga made a comeback for Hyderabad with those 2 wickets when he dismissed Sarfaraz Khan and Matthew Short. Malinga started dominating CSK’s batting line-up by dismissing both the set batsmen.

Where Chennai’s score was 111 runs for 3 wickets, but within no time CSK had lost 7 wickets by reaching 154 runs. Shivam Dubey was completely dodged by Saqib Hussain’s ball and was clean bowled.

The tables turned in the last moments

The big players of Chennai including Shivam Dubey, Matthew Short were out. Jamie Overton took over. The situation was such that CSK had to score 30 runs in the last 12 balls. Nitish Kumar Reddy gave 12 runs in the 19th over. Now Chennai had to score 18 runs in 6 balls. 3 runs came on the first 2 balls, but Praful Hinge no-balled the next ball. The good thing was that a six did not come on the free-hit. Praful proved to be very expensive in the entire match, but in the last over, he bowled yorker after yorker and ensured Hyderabad’s victory by dismissing Jamie Overton on the fourth ball.

In the 27th match of the Indian Premier League 2026, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Chennai Super Kings by 10 runs. In this match played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad won the toss and decided to bowl first. SRH batted first and scored 194 runs. Abhishek Sharma played an amazing inning of 59 runs in 22 balls and Heinrich Klaasen played an amazing inning of 59 runs in 39 balls. While chasing the target, Chennai Super Kings were in a good position at one point, but fell behind in the end. Chennai could score only 184 runs and lost the fourth match in the ongoing edition.

Ishan Kishan was adjudged the best player of the match. This bowler of Sunrisers Hyderabad took 3 wickets for 29 runs in 4 overs. He dismissed Ruturaj Gaikwad, Matt Short and Sarfaraz Khan.

CSK innings highlights

Sanju Samson hit a six on the first ball of the innings, but he was out on the first ball of the second over. He was caught out by Nitish Kumar Reddy, Sanju scored 7 runs in 3 balls. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad once again flopped, scoring 19 runs in 13 balls. Ayush Mhatre played an important inning of 30 runs in 13 balls, but a difficult catch by Heinrich Klaasen ended his innings. Matt Short scored 34 and Sarfaraz Khan scored 25 runs.

Dewald Brevis could not even open his account today, Shivam Dubey was out at the crucial time after scoring 21 runs. Overall, no batsman could play a big innings for Chennai. Ishan Malinga took 3 important wickets for 29 runs in 4 overs. Nitish Kumar Reddy took 2 wickets. Prafulla Hinge, Saqib Hussain and Shivang Kumar took 1 wicket each.

SRH innings of highlights

Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head had a bright start, Abhishek scored a half-century in 15 balls. Head was out after scoring 23 runs in 20 balls. Ishan Kishan could not open his account today. Mukesh Chaudhary dismissed Head and Ishaan on consecutive balls in the sixth over. After this, Jamie Overton ended Abhishek’s innings, he scored 59 runs in 22 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 6 fours.

Heinrich Klaasen played an important inning of 59 runs in 39 balls, he hit 2 sixes and 6 fours. But in the last overs, the Chennai Super Kings bowlers made a good comeback and managed to limit Hyderabad to under 200, in which Anshul Kamboj’s 18th and 20th overs were important, in which he gave only 10 runs in total.

Anshul Kamboj took 3 wickets for 22 runs in 3 overs. Mukesh Chaudhary took 2 wickets for 21 runs in 2 overs. Jamie Overton had 3 wickets in his name, he gave 37 runs in 4 overs. Noor Ahmed created a chance to dismiss Abhishek, but Shivam Dubey dropped the catch. Noor could not take any wicket. Gurjapneet Singh took 1 wicket.

Playing XI of Chennai Super Kings: Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Sarfaraz Khan, Shivam Dubey, Dewald Brewis, Jamie Overton, Matthew Short, Anshul Kambok, Noor Ahmed, Mukesh Chaudhary, Gurjapneet Singh.

Playing XI of Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (captain), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora (wicketkeeper), Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivang Kumar, Prafulla Hinge, Saqib Hussain, Ishan Malinga.

SRH vs CSK Head to Head

A total of 22 matches have been played so far in the IPL between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings, in which Chennai has the upper hand. CSK has won 15 matches while SRH has been able to win only 7 matches.

Hyderabad franchise is undoubtedly known for big totals, they have touched the 250 mark many times but they have never scored more than 200 runs against Chennai Super Kings. SRH’s best score against CSK is 192. Chennai’s best score against Hyderabad is 223.

Praful Hinge displayed lethal bowling in his IPL debut match. He took 3 wickets in the very first over, which included the wicket of Vaibhav Suryavanshi. Hinge, who was included in the Sunrisers Hyderabad team, took 4 wickets for 34 runs in 4 overs against Rajasthan Royals, for which he was adjudged Player of the Match. After this match, he became popular on the internet, his videos and reels started going viral. He became a star overnight. Before this match he had less than 4 thousand followers.

In that match played on Monday, Sunrisers Hyderabad had scored 216 runs (vs Rajasthan). While defending the target, Praful Hinge bowled the first over, on the very second ball of which he dismissed Vaibhav Suryavanshi. He walked Dhruv Jurel on the fourth ball and Luan Dre Pretorius on the last ball. Took 3 wickets for 1 run in the first over. Praful created an Instagram account in 2018, from then till last Sunday he had less than 4 thousand followers, which have now crossed 5 lakh.

Followers increased 150 times

Praful Hinge’s Instagram ID is prafulhinge_140. He created this account in 2018. Very few people knew Praful, who played for Vidarbha, he had less than 4 thousand followers on Instagram. But after his debut match against Rajasthan Royals, the whole of India is talking about him. Cricket watchers know that the 4 wickets he took in the debut match were not easy. Vaibhav scored a lot of runs on legendary bowlers like Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar, who were dismissed by Praful on the first ball.

Till the time of writing this news, Praful Hinge has 5 lakh 20 thousand followers on Instagram. He himself follows 403 people, he has made 98 posts so far.

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The first match of IPL 2026 was between RCB and SRH, in which Prafulla got a chance to meet Virat Kohli, so he did not let it go. Prafulla took a photo with Kohli and shared it on Instagram. Prafulla wrote with it, “With the legend.”

Prafulla Hinge won the Player of the Match award in his IPL debut match, he dismissed a dangerous batsman like Vaibhav Suryavanshi on his very second ball. In the same over, he also sent Dhruv Jurel to the pavilion, who had looked in good form in the previous matches of the ongoing edition. He took a total of 4 wickets. In the match held on Monday, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Rajasthan Royals by 57 runs. Prafulla said after the match that he had already told the people that Vaibhav would be out on a bouncer ball. He also said that he had written somewhere that he would take 4-5 wickets in his debut match.

Batting first in this match played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Sunrisers Hyderabad had scored 216 runs, but considering the batting of Rajasthan Royals seen in the previous matches, this chase did not seem very difficult. But Prafulla Hinge, who was playing his debut match in IPL, wreaked havoc on the Rajasthan batsmen. He bowled the first over of the innings, on the very second ball of which he dismissed Vaibhav Suryavanshi and dismissed Dhruv Jurel on the fourth ball. In the very first over, he also sent Luan-Dre Pretorius to the pavilion. He took his fourth wicket in the form of Riyan Parag.

What did Prafulla Hinge say?

After receiving the Player of the Match award, Prafulla said, “I had written somewhere that I will take 4-5 wickets in my debut match. I thought that I will put pressure in the powerplay. I believe that whatever you think, it comes true. I started playing cricket at the age of 13, then I did not even know what leather ball cricket was. I asked my father to join some club. But he said that I am too young. Then he took me to the club, and after that I continued playing. I want to dedicate this award to my family.”

Describing Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s wicket as his favourite, Prafulla Hinge further said, “I told people that I will bowl him a bouncer and get him out. I just wanted to get him out. Our bowling coach helped me plan it, so thanks to him.”

With the brilliant bowling of debutant Prafulla Hinge (four wickets for 34 runs) and Shakib Hussain (four wickets for 24 runs) after captain Ishan Kishan’s innings of 91 runs in 44 balls, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Rajasthan Royals by 57 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 match here on Monday.

Hinge set a new IPL record by taking three wickets in the first over itself. He made his debut memorable by dismissing Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel and Luhan-Dre Pretorius without opening the account.

After Kishan’s explosive innings, Sunrisers scored 216 runs for six wickets in the last overs due to the explosive batting of Nitish Kumar Reddy and Salil Arora, in response to which Rajasthan Royals were bowled out for 159 runs in 19 overs.

This is the first defeat of the Royals in five matches, while this is the second win of the Sunrisers in the same number of matches. Hinge got good support from another debutant bowler Shakib, who took important wickets of Yashasvi Jaiswal (1) and Donovan Ferreira (69 runs in 44 balls). Ishan Malinga took two wickets for 31 runs.

After the fall of five wickets for just nine runs, Ferreira and Ravindra Jadeja (45 runs in 32 balls) kept the Royals in the match by making a partnership of 118 runs in 72 balls for the sixth wicket, but with the breakdown of this partnership, the team’s hopes ended.

Apart from hitting eight fours and six sixes in his innings, Kishan made an important partnership of 88 runs for the third wicket with Heinrich Klaasen (40 runs in 26 balls).

In the last overs, Reddy increased the run rate by scoring 28 runs in just 13 balls, while Arora scored an unbeaten 24 runs in 13 balls to take the team to a strong score.

While defending the target, Hinge got Vaibhav Suryavanshi caught by wicketkeeper Arora on the second ball of the innings. After this he bowled Jurel and completed three wickets by getting Luhan-Dre Pretorius caught by Reddy. These three batsmen returned to the pavilion without opening their account, due to which the Royals lost three wickets for one run.

Shakib dismissed Jaiswal in the second over and reduced the score to four wickets for two runs. Captain Riyan Parag hit the first four of the innings against Hinge, but was caught by Abhishek Sharma in the slip on the last ball of the third over, due to which half of the Royals team returned to the pavilion at nine runs in three overs.

After this, experienced Ravindra Jadeja and Donovan Ferreira batted cautiously and scored boundaries at regular intervals. Ferreira remained more aggressive during this period.

Jadeja hit two fours against Shakib in the fourth over, while Ferreira hit the first six of the innings against Hinge. The team’s score in the powerplay was 40 runs for five wickets.

Continuing his aggressive attitude, Ferreira hit two fours on consecutive balls against Shivang Kumar in the seventh over and hit the second six of his innings in the 11th over.

In the next over, he completed his half-century in 31 balls by hitting two fours and a six on consecutive balls of Harsh Dubey. Jadeja took the team’s score beyond 100 by hitting a four in the 13th over, while in the same over with one run by Ferreira, the pair completed a century partnership in 65 balls.

Shakib broke this wonderful partnership by bowling Ferreira in the 15th over, while Malinga ended the Royals’ hopes of victory by getting Jadeja caught by Arora.

After this, Shakib made his debut memorable by dismissing Joffra Archer and Ravi Bishnoi on consecutive balls in the 17th over. Tushar Deshpande scored 25 runs in 11 balls with the help of three sixes, but by then it was too late.

Before this, Sunrisers also had a bad start. Abhishek returned to the pavilion at the beginning of the innings without opening his account. He tried to play a big shot on the very first ball, but was caught by Bishnoi at third man on the ball of Archer (2 wickets for 37 runs).

After this, Kishan adopted an aggressive style and hit Archer for a four over fine leg and a six over deep midwicket. In the next overs, he also kept the run pace fast by hitting big shots on Sandeep Sharma and Deshpande. From the other end, Travis Head could not impress and was out after scoring 18 runs in 18 balls.

Even after this wicket, Kishan continued his aggressive stance and completed his half-century in 30 balls and took the team beyond 100 in 10.3 overs.

Kishan, while trying to play a big shot, waved Sandeep’s ball in the air and despite the collision with wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel, the bowler took a brilliant catch.

Reddy hit four sixes in the last overs, while Arora hit two sixes and two fours, including a six against Tushar Deshpande on the last ball of the innings.

Prafulla Hinge displayed lethal bowling in his IPL debut match, he bowled the first over and dismissed the top batsmen of Rajasthan Royals. This was the biggest turning point of the match, after which the difficulties for RR kept increasing. SRH is the first team to defeat Rajasthan in the ongoing edition. Prafulla dismissed Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel and Luan-Dre Pretorius in his first over.

In this match played in Hyderabad on Monday, Riyan Parag had decided to bowl first after winning the toss. Abhishek (0) and Head (18) could not play big innings, but Ishan Kishan, who came at number three, played a brilliant inning of 91 runs. Heinrich Klaasen scored an important 40 runs. Sunrisers had scored 216 runs. While chasing the target, Rajasthan Royals lost 3 wickets in the first over, this over was of Prafulla Hinge.

What happened in Prafulla Hinge’s first over?

Ishaan gave the first over to Prafulla, who was playing his debut match. The first ball he bowled to Jaiswal was a back of length ball outside off, on which one run came. Vaibhav Suryavanshi was in front on the second ball. This ball of Prafulla was a little short, on which Vaibhav swung the bat for a big shot. The ball hit the edge of the upper part of the bat and went only high. This became an easy catch for the wicketkeeper.

Dhruv Jurel, who came at number three, played his first ball a dot, but was bowled on the fourth ball of the over. This ball of Prafulla Hinge was on the off side, on which the batsman wanted to cut in the direction of the third man. After hitting the bat, the ball went straight to the stump.

Dwayne Pretorius, who came at number four, also played a dot on the first ball and was out on the last ball of the second and first over. Pretorius swept this ball towards deep backward square, making it an easy catch for Nitish Kumar Reddy at the boundary. Prafulla Hinge bowled a record spell in the first match of his IPL debut, he gave only 1 run and took 3 wickets.

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Dhruv Jurel
Lhuan-dre Pretorius

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Riyan Parag was also made a victim

Prafulla Hinge took his fourth wicket as Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag. In the spell of 4 overs, he gave a total of 34 runs and took 4 wickets. While chasing the target of 217 runs, Rajasthan Royals collapsed for 159 runs. Prafulla won the Player of the Match award.

Kavya Maran reaches the stadium to support Sunrisers Hyderabad in every match of IPL, on Monday also she was present at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. When Ishan Kishan was attacking the bowlers, happiness was clearly visible on Kavya’s face. When he hit a six off Joffra Archer, he stood up and applauded. After this, his happiness was at a different level on the deadly bowling of Prafulla Hinge.

Joffra Archer had dismissed Abhishek Sharma on the very first ball. Kavya present in the stadium was very sad on this, after this Travis Head (18) was also out cheaply. But captain Ishan Kishan played a stormy innings and took the team to a big score, he scored 91 runs in 44 balls with the help of 6 sixes and 8 fours. When she hit a six off Joffra’s ball, there was a different joy on Kavya’s face. He stood up and applauded with a slight smile.

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Kavya Maran gets excited after seeing Prafulla Hinge’s bowling

Sunrisers Hyderabad fast bowler Prafulla Hinge, playing his IPL debut match, gave a great start to SRH by taking 3 wickets in the very first over. He took the wicket of Vaibhav Suryavanshi on the second ball of the first over, after which he dismissed Dhruv Jurel on the fourth ball. He took 3 wickets in the first over and a total of 4 wickets, for which he received the Player of the Match award.

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Vaibhav Suryavanshi tried to hit a big shot on his second and first ball of the over, but the ball only went high. When the ball was in the air, Kavya Maran immediately stood up from her seat, as soon as wicketkeeper Salil Arora took the catch, Kavya Maran jumped with joy.

IPL 2026 SRH vs RR: Hyderabad captain Ishan Kishan praised debutant fast bowlers Prafulla Hinge and Shakib Hussain after defeating Rajasthan Royals by 57 runs in the Indian Premier League T20 match here on Monday.

Hinge created history by taking 3 wickets in a single over.

Hinge and Shakib took four wickets each in their debut match. ‘Player of the Match’ Hinge set a new IPL record by taking three wickets in his first over. He dismissed Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel and Luhan-Dre Pretorius without opening the account.

Kishan’s inning of 91 runs in 44 balls helped Sunrisers score 216 runs for six wickets, in response to which Rajasthan Royals were bowled out for 159 runs.

Giving opportunity to new bowlers is a well thought out strategy of the team management – Kisan

After the victory, Kishan expressed satisfaction over the team’s performance and said that this victory was important for the team and the players implemented the plans well. “We are very happy with this win,” he told broadcasters at the awards ceremony. The team scored two important points and the bowlers did what we expected from them. We told him to play freely and execute his plans properly, and today he did just that. The credit for this goes to all the bowlers.

On giving opportunity to new bowlers, he said, “You also have to see how much desire the young players have for success.” He was working hard with our bowling coach Varun Aaron throughout the season and was constantly interacting with the experienced players. It was necessary to give him a chance on home ground and today this decision proved to be right.

In this match, Sunrisers’ opener Abhishek Sharma was out without opening the account on the very first ball, but Kishan defended him and said, ‘The way Abhishek plays, it is inevitable to get out early sometimes. It is our responsibility to take the innings deep, so that he can play freely. If he gets going then we can easily make a big score. He was out today, but hopefully he will return more motivated in the next match.

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IPL 2026 SRH vs RR: The 21st match of IPL 2026 was played on Monday between Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Rajasthan Royals (RR). Batting first, SRH scored 216 runs and bowled out RR for 159 runs, winning the match by 57 runs.

Prafulla Hinge and Saqib Hussain, playing their first match, played a big role in SRH’s victory. Both had taken 4-4 wickets. Apart from this, captain Ishan Kishan also played an inning of 91 runs in 44 balls.

Saqib Hussain looks very fearless and talented – Michelle McClenaghan

Speaking on Star Sports’ Amul Cricket Live, former New Zealand fast bowler Mitchell McClenaghan praised Saqib Hussain and Praful Hinge.

Mitchell McClenaghan said of Saqib Hussain, “Saqib Hussain has looked very fearless and talented. At the start of the chase, he took the big wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal with the new ball. That wicket put an end to Rajasthan’s top order and any chances of chasing 217 runs. Later, he showed his ability to bowl slower balls and his ability to hit them surprised everyone. His slower ball took Mustafizur Showed a glimpse of Rahman, he appeared to be right-handed Mustafizur.

Mitchell McClenaghan said about Prafulla Hinge, “You also have to give credit to this young talented fast bowler. He changed his line and length very well. The first ball to Vaibhav Suryavanshi, he bowled a sharp bumper which surprised him and he was out. Against Dhruv Jurel, he bowled on the fourth-stump line and the inside edge hit the stumps, it was a peach ball. In his first over as a debutant, He showed great control by bowling such a good line, he proved that he is serious about the work.

McClenaghan said that these two fearless players have shown that the future of Indian bowling is in safe hands.

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