Sunrisers Hyderabad Move to Second Spot After Comfortable Win Over Punjab Kings | IPL 2024 | N18VIn today’s first match of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) chased down 215 to win the match by four wickets and with five balls to spare as they beat the Punjab Kings (PBKS) at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.Chasing the target, they lost Travis Head off the very first ball, but fifty from Abhishek Sharma and quick runs from Rahul Tripathi, Heinrich Klaasen and Nitish Reddy meant that they reached the target easily. They went to the second spot in the points table. Batting first, Punjab got a brilliant start as the opening pair of Prabhsimarn Singh and Atharva Tiade put on 97. While Taide (46) missed his fifty, Prabhsimran completed it (71). Rilee Rossouw (49) continued to attack before Hyderabad made a mini comeback in overs 16-19 with Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma failing together in a rare game. Jitesh Sharma (32*) though made the most of the 20th over and pushed the Punjab score beyond 200. Earlier Punjab’s stand-in captain Jitesh won the toss and elected to bat against Sunrisers Hyderabad in their penultimate Indian Premier League contest.
