In the 27th match of IPL 2026, a spectacular batting scene was seen on the Hyderabad ground, where Sunrisers Hyderabad's star batsman Abhishek Sharma created history in a stormy manner.

Against Chennai Super Kings, he broke his own record by scoring a half-century in the powerplay.

After being invited to bat first, the opening pair of Sunrisers Hyderabad, after playing the first over with caution, targeted the bowlers of Chennai Super Kings from the second over. Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma together started the innings in a sizzling manner and scored 38 runs in just 4 overs. After this, Matthew Short, who came to bowl in the next over, gave away 25 runs. In this way, Sunrisers Hyderabad scored more than 60 runs in just 5 overs.

Matthew Short wasted a lot of runs

Actually, Abhishek Sharma targeted all-rounder Matthew Short in the fifth over of the innings and hit three consecutive fours and two sixes. With this he completed the 11th half-century of his IPL career, which is also his fastest fifty so far for SRH. He improved his own record and made a record of scoring a half-century in 15 balls. Earlier, he had done the feat of scoring a half-century in 16 balls. Travis Head has also achieved the feat of scoring half-century in 16 balls twice. You will be surprised to know that Abhishek is the first batsman to score a half-century in less than 20 balls against MI and CSK.