SRH vs. RR Live Score, IPL 2026: Sakib and Hinge halt RR's winning run with a fantastic evening

Apr 13, 2026, 11:17 PM

Sakib, Hinge, and a night of dreams

The pair's combined stats are 8 for 58. The last three wickets taken by Sakib were all slower varieties. Eshan Malinga seals the deal by taking Tushar Deshpande's last wicket, condemning RR to their first IPL 2026 defeat. With their second victory in five games, SRH's campaign is back on track, moving them up to fourth place behind RR, PBKS, and RCB.

Apr 13, 2026, 11:01 PM

Is it sealed by SRH?

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Two wickets, two overs. The hitters in both sets are gone. Malinga and Sakib with the wickets. That must be it, right?

Apr 13, 2026, 10:35 PM

Donovan Ferreira's first IPL fifty

Donovan Ferreira, who reached his first IPL half-century off just 31 balls, has been especially quick to seize every opportunity presented by Shivang Kumar and Harsh Dubey. Their strategy has clearly changed since the tenth over. Fifty has been scored in the next four overs. Even still, RR has to score 97 runs in the next six overs, which is a high demand.

Apr 13, 2026, 10:22 PM

Ferreira and Jadeja fight

Despite their half-century partnership off 35 balls, the bowlers have not yet been targeted. This won't bother SRH. Damage limitation appears to be RR's current goal.

Apr 13, 2026, 9:50 PM

The fantasy evening goes on

Praful Hinge took three wickets in his opening over, and Riyan Parag, the captain of RR, took a fourth wicket after being mercilessly whipped through midwicket. Parag is hit by a beautiful away-swinger as he reaches for a full ball, and Abhishek Sharma expertly catches the thick edge at slip.

Sakib Hossain, the other debutant, had a beautiful little moment when he dismissed Lhuan-dre Pretorius.

9/5 in three overs for the Royals

Apr 13, 2026, 9:41 PM

Praful Hinge: you're a hero

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For the IPL rookie, what a moment! Even Josh Hazlewood and Jasprit Bumrah haven't been able to acquire Vaibhav Sooryavanshi this season, and he did it for a golden duck. He top-edges the wicketkeeper with a hard-length delivery in the middle.

A dream start for Praful Hinge

However, it doesn't stop there. Additionally, he dismisses Lhuan-dre Pretorius, who flicks straight to long leg, and Dhruv Jurel, who chops on.

An IPL debut over with three wickets. He will now be India's most sought-after cricket player. For those who don't know much about him, he plays for Vidarbha under Harsh Dubey and is from Nagpur.

Surprisingly, he had only played in one Twenty20 match before this one. contributed slightly to Vidarbha's victory in the Vijay Hazare Trophy earlier this year.

Apr 13, 2026, 9:18 PM

Does SRH have enough?

SRH has scored 53 runs in the last five overs.

The Royals won't be too upset with how they finished, although they would have aimed for something closer to 230. Nitish Reddy and Salil Arora made a few helpful cameos in the end.

Apr 13, 2026, 8:36 PM

The rage of Kishan

Parag turned back to Archer for a third over in the 13th after Deshpande took the brunt of Kishan's wrath in the 11th. However, there isn't much relief. Kishan continues to charge at top speed, using his lightning-fast hands to carve anything full and wide between backward point and cover and using the pull or whip to muscle anything short into the body in front of square.

Kishan skews one straight up off Sandeep and falls for 91 in an attempt to maintain the surge. Fortunately, the Royals were unharmed when the bowler and keeper collided while attempting a catch. In 14 overs, SRH 145/3.

Apr 13, 2026, 8:18 PM

Kishan-Klaasen on the charge

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This is a quick look at the results of overs 8–11.

With a massive slog sweep off Ravi Bishnoi, Kishan reached his half-century mark. reached his 19th IPL fifty off 30 balls. In the meantime, Kishan took Tushar Deshpande for 20 runs off his second over, and the two partners' half-century came off just 26 deliveries.

Sunrisers in 11 overs, 110/2

Apr 13, 2026, 7:52 PM

Head: unlucky third time

In the fourth over, Nandre Burger came dangerously close to dismissing him twice.

First, a nip-backer that beat a diving Dhruv Jurel behind the stumps by kissing the inner edge. Then Head almost missed a retreating Archer by skewing a skier over mid-on.

However, Head's good fortune is short-lived as Riyan Parag beats him in flight to hole out to long-on in the seventh over. However, he and Ishan Kishan's second-wicket partnership of 55 (from 40 balls) has laid the groundwork for the Sunrisers to reach 56/2 in seven overs.

Apr 13, 2026, 7:33 PM

Abhishek's golden duck

Abhishek has the most ducks of any player in T20s this year with seven.

He launches himself at Jofra Archer's first ball, giving third man a hefty edge. The audience looks on in shock as Archer launches into a joyous sprint. In the IPL, this is Archer's fourth first-over, first-ball wicket. With five, Mohammed Shami has the most.

Ishan Kishan picks Archer for ten in his second over, bringing him back to earth if his first was a ripper. The next bumper is blasted over deep midwicket after a whip behind square for four.

In three overs, Sunrisers 16/1.

Apr 13, 2026, 7:11 PM

Sakib Hussain: Who is he?

He is a seamer for Bihar who is twenty-one years old. Many people confuse him for Bihar batter Sakibul Gani.

Sakib will face Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, with whom he has played age-group cricket. In 2024, he was a member of the KKR team but did not play.

Sakib is from Gopalganj, a hamlet made famous by Delhi Capitals and India fast bowler Mukesh Kumar. In contrast to Sakib, Mukesh relocated to Kolkata and made a name for himself on the home circuit in Bengal.

Apr 13, 2026, 6:57 PM

Can Sunrisers get out of a mini-slump?

The Rajasthan Royals choose to bowl against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

The undefeated Rajasthan Royals chose to bowl on a new surface in Uppal against a Sunrisers Hyderabad team in an attempt to snap a two-match losing run, and Riyan Parag made the right selection.

Lhuan-dre Pretorius, a hitter from South Africa, was given his first chance of the season by the Royals after Shimron Hetmyer was "rested." Seamer Brijesh Sharma stepped out to make room for Tushar Deshpande in another like-for-like move.

Sakib Hussain and Praful Hinge, two rookies, replaced the seasoned bowling combo of Harshal Patel and Jaydev Unadkat. Hinge plays for Vidarbha under Harsh Dubey, while Sakib, who represents Bihar, will face Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.

Teams

Rajasthan Royals bowling-first XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Riyan Parag (capt), Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Sandeep Sharma, Ravi Bishnoi, Tushar Deshpande

RR bench: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravi Singh, Shubham Dubey, Brijesh Sharma

Sunrisers Hyderabad batting-first XI: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (capt & wk), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Eshan Malinga, Praful Hinge

SRH bench: R Smaran, Sakib Hussain, Liam Livingstone, Shivam Mavi, Harshal Patel

Apr 13, 2026, 6:31 PM

Sooryavanshi paving the way

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has dominated Indian cricket and the T20 world just 197 deliveries into his IPL career. At a strike rate of 229.44, 452 runs are not insignificant. When you consider that he is only 15 years old, those statistics are not credible.

Apr 13, 2026, 6:15 PM

Bishnoi's long-term progress

Bishnoi's improved success for the Rajasthan Royals may be traced back to realising what went so terribly wrong for him the previous time around. He has taken nine wickets at an economy rate of 8.76 and an average of 12.66. "I had one weakness: if my length was wrong then I was getting hit for fours and sixes," he remarked following last week's four-for performance against the Gujarat Titans. He used to make pretty bad mistakes.

Apr 13, 2026, 5:45 PM

Sooryavanshi is getting close to 1000 T20 runs

In men's Twenty20 cricket, Sooryavanshi has the opportunity to tie a long-standing record for the fastest to 1000 runs. In 22 innings, he is now at 901. Brad Hodge and Shaun Marsh hold the record with 23 innings. The first player to reach 1000 T20 runs was Hodge. Only Shaun Marsh has reached the milestone in 23 innings out of the 1061 other players who have scored 1000 T20 runs since.

Apr 13, 2026, 5:31 PM

Bowlers, take note

For bowlers, Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad is one of the harshest venues in the nation. The game will be played on pitch number three, which is a flat, mixed-soil deck with a run rate of 10.91 during spin overs. Both teams may primarily use their quick bowlers because pace performs marginally better, at 9.41. Additionally, it will be a scorching evening because of the heavy humidity, which makes the low 30s (Celsius) seem much hotter.

Apr 13, 2026, 5:15 PM

Be wary of Bishnoi's googlies

After experiencing his worst season ever the previous year, Ravi Bishnoi joined his new squad, RR. He averaged 44.55 and leaked runs at 10.83 per over. These figures have since dropped to 8.76 and 12.66, respectively, due to improved control over line and length and a notable decrease in hit-me balls. The Hyderabad surface is renowned for its genuine speed and bounce, which will provide Bishnoi's stock ball the quick googly with an intriguing backdrop.

Apr 13, 2026, 5:03 PM

Klaasen in the limelight

The IPL's second-highest run scorer is Heinrich Klaasen. His finest innings of the competition thus far was his half-century against KKR. Even while they are fruitful, the other knocks—31 off 22, 62 off 41, and 39 off 33—show a more serious problem with his batting. All three of SRH's games have been losses. Although he is not to blame for their bowling problems, his strike rate this season has dropped significantly from 172.69 to 140.45. In order to offer his team those extra 15–20 runs on Monday, he will try to score more quickly after struggling with timing against PBKS in the final overs.

Apr 13, 2026, 4:46 PM

Is Hinge going to make his debut?

When Ishan Kishan announced that Vidarbha seamer Praful Hinge will be making his IPL debut against PBKS, he made a mistake. They were batting first, and Hinge was supposed to enter the game as an Impact Sub in the second inning. However, after observing how the pitch played, they substituted Unadkat. Due to Unadkat's lacklustre performance, SRH may make Hinge's postponed debut on a softer Hyderabad pitch. Additionally, they only used three foreign players in their last match; this time, Livingstone might bolster their middle order.

Apr 13, 2026, 4:00 PM

Old guard is challenged by newcomers

You can excuse Travis Head for believing that 2024 seems like a long time ago. Together with Abhishek Sharma, he set the IPL record at the time with a powerplay score of 125 for 0. A new age of big-hitting, unmatched in IPL cricket at the top of the order, was ushered in by the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) openers. While that specific record is still in place, the Rajasthan Royals (RR) have their own opening duo, 24-year-old Yashasvi Jaiswal and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, vying for T20 history.

In their most recent game, against Punjab Kings, Travishek scored their third powerplay goal of 100 or more, demonstrating that SRH's top order is still capable. SRH will be concerned with their middle order's subsequent decline, as they struggled—and occasionally even hesitated—to go for the big strokes on a sluggish deck. In the first eight overs, they scored 120 for 2, and in the next twelve, they scored 99 for 4.

RR's all-around bowling attack will now confront their middle order; if Jofra Archer's pace isn't enough to get you, Purple Cap holder Ravi Bishnoi will be waiting with his spin. To make matters worse, SRH's own bowlers were helpless against a clinical chase by the Punjab Kings. This season, they have had three chances to defend totals of 200 or more, but they have only succeeded once.

Due to their disparate results below No. 3 in their lineups, RR is at the top of the points table while SRH is at No. 6. SRH will hope that their home environment brings out the best in them.