RR vs SRH IPL 2026 Highlights: SRH coast to five-wicket win

Vaibhav Arora finishes it with a six off the third ball of the 19th over. He flicks it over deep square leg to make it four wins in a row for SRH. Wow, Sooryavanshi scored a scorcher of a century earlier today but you wouldn't say that if you saw just the last four or five overs of this match without looking at the score. SRH have absolutely coasted to victory here, RR never really looked capable of limiting them in their innings.

Excellent yorker from Brijesh, Reddy loses his balance completely and the umpire raises his finger for LBW. Reddy reviews it, it takes an age for ball-tracking to load after ultraedge shows no bat. Three reds and Reddy has to go.

Nitish Kumar Reddy lbw b Brijesh Sharma 36 (18)

SRH 219/4 in 17.2 overs

A good over from Brijesh Sharma but this feels like a ost cause now for RR. Their lethargic finish, just over 35 runs in the last five overs, plus their errors in their field has left them needing a miracle to win from here now.

SRH need 36 to win from 24 balls.

SRH 193/3 in 16 overs

Well, that's end of a wonderful partnership but is this the way back that RR were looking for? Abhishek tries to lift the last ball of that 10th over down the ground for a six. Archer takes the catch at long off right by the boundary. The stand ends on 132 off just 55 balls. He had to catch it well above his head, his weight was taking him to the boundary ropes but he balances himself on one leg. Pretty good work there from Archer.

Abhishek Sharma c Archer b Ferreira 57 (29)

SRH 139/2 in 10 overs

And it has come in just 24 balls. Ishan takes a single off the first ball of the ninth over by Brijesh. His second ball is slow and short on leg, Abhishek pulls it away through square leg for four. The next ball is a full toss outside off, Abhishek sends it through point for another four. That takes im past fifty. Four more runs in that over, he is on 54 off 26, Kishan on 49 off 23.

SRH 125/1 in 9 overs

What in the world is going on! Abhishek drives at a full toss outside off last ball of the fifth over by Tushar Deshpande. The ball pops straight to Ravindra Jadeja, RAVINDRA JADEJA, at backward point. And he DROPS THE SITTER! Jadeja of all people. The man who often finds a place in teams simply because of his fielding prowess. Before that, Abhishek had hit back to back fours off the fourth and fifth balls of the fifth over. Kishan had got one off the second.

SRH need 159 from 90 balls, they are going at a run rate of 14, required rate is just over 10.

Archer started off with a 140kh length ball that went across Head, it squared the batter up. Outside edge and Jurel goes to his left, he gets both gloves on it but can't hold on! Archer shouts and punches the air in frustration before walking back. Head was beaten a couple more times in that over before he managed to hit a six over backward point fourth ball. The fifth is another 140kph length ball on leg, slanting across. Head squared up again on his backfoot now, this time, Jurel holds on. Archer unbelievable!

Head c Jurel b Archer 6 (5)

SRH 7/1 in 0.5 overs

Well, all said and done, SRH should be pretty happy with how they have ended this innings, even though they have a mountain to climb now with the bat. Just 37 runs in the last four overs for the loss of three wickets. Moreover, RR would also know that they have left runs in the locker here. Sooryavanshi was going big guns and while Jaiswal did the same, he didn't last long. After that, Jurel and Parag could not keep up the pace, Parag and Hetmyer later couldn't get going while Ferreira found the boundaries. They had one batter in touch and one out of it throughout the innings. One good partnership with runs from both ends is all SRH needs to challenge this target.

Well Parag was struggling but you could be the most in-form batter with the best bat in the world and still you won't be able to do anything about that. It kept drifting in to Parag, goes right through him like hot knife through cold butter and clatters the stumps.

Parag b Cummins 7 (9)

RR 191/4 in 16.1 overs

Century and out for Sooryavanshi. This was a full delivery from Sakib, Sooryavanshi tried to scoop it over deep fine leg. But he couldn't get under the ball enough and raps him on the pads. Looks like Parag has told him to just go for the review, even though it looked plumb to the naked eye. And plumb it was, but he is worth burning a review on.

Sooryavanshi lbw b Sakib Hussain 103 (37)

RR 170/3 in 13.5 overs

He started stepping up and perished. Reddy gives his India teammate a bit of a sendoff as well! Jurel had played a majestic drive down the ground to raise a fifty third ball of that over. The fourth ball sits up outside off, Jurel tries to hook it but it takes a top edge. Caught by Aniket who comes running in from cover.

Jurel c Verma b Nitish Kumar Reddy 51 (35)

RR 152/2 in 12.4 overs

Jurel hasn't rteally got going yet but it really doesn't matter at all because of what Sooryavanshi has done at the other end, although the latter has taken it down a notch, comparitively speaking. The brilliant Pat Cummins managed to keep them down to three runs in the ninth over. Sakib Hasan returns for the ninth, he had dropped a tough chance of Sooryavanshi off his own bowling in his last over. Sooryavanshi smashes the fifth ball of the ninth straight back to Sakib, he puts his hand up almost in evasive action and the ball bounces off. It is technically another dropped catch and Sooryavanshi ends the over with a six down the ground.

Then Sooryavanshi gets a four off Hinge in the 10th over fourth ball. He is on 76 off 29, Jurel on 25 off 23.

He is also the youngest player now to score more than 1000 runs in T20 cricket and he has got there at a strike rate of over 205. Utterly bonkers.

And that's that for Jaiswal. Malinga had started the third over with a back of a length delivery outside leg, Jaiswal had helped it on its way for four. Malinga stays back of a length second ball on leg angling across. But the pace does the trick, Jaiswal hurried into the pull and holes out to Klaasen at mid-on.

Praful Hinge had become the first bowler to take three wickets in the first over of an IPL match the last time these two sides met. Today, he has been smashed by Sooryavanshi for four back to back sixes. Astonishing stuff. Jaiswal cut away towards deep backward point for a single, Sooryavanshi swings and misses second ball. The third is hooked over deep backward square for the first six. The second flicked into the sky, all the way to the edge of space, and then down for another six. Sooryavanshi backs away and clobbers the fifth ball down the ground for a hat-trick of sixes. The last one is hit flat down the ground for the fourth six.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora(w), Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Pat Cummins(c), Shivang Kumar, Sakib Hussain, Praful Hinge, Eshan Malinga

Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Nandre Burger, Brijesh Sharma

"First time here in Jaipur and I’ve got to say, it’s been a magnificent day. And as you do in Jaipur, what happened? Hot, hot and hotter. So when I come to this part of the world, the pink is everywhere, but the green is here too. And I think about the dimensions first on this superb stadium. I’m bowling from the northern end. And so to my right, it is 65. To my left, it is also 65 because we’re smack right in the middle of the square here. And downtown, a lovely straight hit of 76 meters. So lots of pink, very dry, but also quite green. It’s like a Garden of Eden. WV Raman, our pitch doctor - I like what I see. What about you? Yeah, I like it too because traditionally what has happened at this venue is that the pitches have always been good for batting, and this is no different. This looks fresh, but the curator told me that he’s been working on this surface for about a week now. And that’s the reason why this looks so good, because it’s well rolled. And I’m sure that the tradition of this pitch being good for the batters is going to continue as well. I like it. We all like it. I'll tell you what - would you bat first night game, or would you prefer to bowl? That depends on what kind of dew you get here tonight because this is the first game they’re playing at this venue. So that’s something that we'll have to wait and see. And as far as the local intel is concerned, I don’t think there’s going to be much of dew. So I think they would look to put runs on the board first - the captain winning the toss."

SRH lead 13-9 after 22 matches and have won each of the five previous outings between these two teams. At Jaipur, it's deadlocked at 2-2.

Pat Cummins' post on Instagram indicates that he is back to full fitness and set to go today. SRH's pace attack has looked quite one-dimensional in recent games and so Cummins' return should help them out in that department.

KL Rahul has gone berzerk in Delhi and showing just what he is made of today. Going into the final over of the DC innings vs PBKS, Rahul is on 145 off 63 balls. He is five runs away from becoming the first player since Chris Gayle in 2013 to score a 150 in the IPL, and just the third to do it after Gayle and Brendon McCullum in that first ever IPL match.

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Donovan Ferreira, Shubham Dubey, Jofra Archer, Ravi Bishnoi, Brijesh Sharma, Nandre Burger, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Ravi Singh, Yash Raj Punja, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Adam Milne, Dasun Shanaka, Kuldeep Sen, Sushant Mishra, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Kwena Maphaka, Vignesh Puthur, Aman Rao Perala