Ishan Kishan brought up a crucial fifty for Sunrisers Hyderabad during the IPL 2026 opener game against RCB played on March 28 at Bengaluru.

His fifty comes after SRH lost three quick wickets during the powerplay and revived the side, restricted to a low total.

Jacob Duffy’s spell foresaw SRH’s batting line crumble; however, a solid partnership from Ishan Kishan and Heinrich Klaasen has stabilised the innings to add 126 runs to the scoreboard for fourth wicket.

After invited to bat first, Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head opened the innings for SRH while Duffy opened the attack.

Both batters were out of touch as they struggled to strike the ball to boundary. With the dismissal of Abhishek Sharma for 7 runs, Duffy picked his second wicket dismissing Head for 11 runs.

Ishan Kishan and Nitish Reddy came in no.3 and 4 to stabilise the innings. However, Jacob Duffy bagged the wicket of Nitish Reddy in the 5th overs as SRH lost three wickets for 29 runs.

Ishan Kishan who has been in fine form joined Klassen to forge 97 run partnership which included SRH captain’s fifty.

His fifty came off in 27 deliveries which included 5 fours and 2 sixes. He also breached 3000 run milestone in the IPL.  He acce the innings aiming for a better score, but Klaasen got dimissed on Romario Shepherd’s delivery for the 31 runs.

Salil Arora who came to bat lost his wicket to Suyash Sharma for 9 runs, leaving SRH once again struggling to keep wickets.

By the end of 15 overs, Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 142 runs for 5 wickets.

RCB playing 11: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abhinandan Singh, Jacob Duffy, Suyash Sharma

SRH Playing 11: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan(w/c), Heinrich Klaasen, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Salil Arora, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga