An unbeaten knock from Abhishek Sharma has guided Sunrisers Hyderabad to post 242 runs in the IPL 2026 game played against Delhi Capitals on April 21 at Hyderabad.

He smashed 135* runs off 68 deliveries in the innings, smashing his second IPL century. His knock included 10 fours and 10 sixes.

Abhishek Sharma has played 83 games so far, where he has scored 2004 runs. In IPL 2026, he played six games and scored 188 runs at an average of 31.33.

After being invited to bat first, Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head opened the innings while Mukesh Kumar opened the bowling attack.

The duo made a decent start, scoring 67 runs in the power play. Axar Patel brought the breakthrough dismissing Travis Head for 37 runs. He was dismissed after hitting a delivery into deep mid-wicket where he didnot get elevation on th shot. The ball went right down to Sameer Rizvi who was placed in deep mid wicket.

Ishan Kishan who joined Abhishek Sharma, went on to score 25 runs off 12 deliveries. On the other hand, Abhishek Sharma slammed his century after the side cross 150 run mark.

With Heinrich Klaasen and Abhishek Sharma at crease, they went on to cross 200 run mark and aiming to post a massive total putting up tough target at Hyderabad.

By the end of 20 overs, Abhishek Sharma and Heinrich Klaasen guided Sunrisers Hyderabad to post 242 runs in their 20 over innings. They also posted one of the highest team score in the IPL history.

Abhishek Sharma remained unbeaten with 135 runs off 68 deliveries while Heinrich Klaasen scored 37* runs off 13 deliveries which included 3 fours and 3 sixes.

Only Axar Patel picked a wicket for Delhi Capitals while other bowlers went wicketless. All the bowlers were expensive as they leaked runs more than 10 runs per over.