Yesterday Match Result: Rickelton’s ton in vain as SRH cruise to easy win over MI
Ryan Rickelton's record-breaking 123* powered Mumbai Indians to 243/5, but Sunrisers Hyderabad's explosive batting, led by Travis Head's 76 and Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65, chased down the target with ease. SRH secured their fifth consecutive win, significantly boosting their playoff hopes, while MI's playoff chances are all but over.
MUMBAI: On a bowlers’ graveyard at the Wankhede stadium in IPL 2026, the Mumbai Indians are seeing their chances of making it to the playoffs buried for good. Almost. For a while, when they raced away to 243 for five riding on opener Ryan Rickelton’s blistering 123 not out off just 55 balls on Wednesday night, MI would’ve hoped to stop the juggernaut of Sunrisers Hyderabad and score a win that would’ve kept them alive in the tournament.
Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW! However, that still couldn’t prevent them from going down by six wickets, as a rampaging Sunrisers’ batting line-up, which chased down the target in just 18.
4 overs. Exploding in signature style, ‘Travi-Shek' provided a perfect start to chase down the 244-run target. Dropped a couple times by Naman Dhir (at deep point, and then at point), Travis Head, shaking off his below-par form, smashed his first half-century (76, 30b, 4x4, 8x6) of the season.
With Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24 balls, 4x4, 3x6) firing away at will too, the deadly left-handed added 129 in merely 52 balls for the opening wicket. A twin strike by spinner Allah Ghazanfar in the ninth over, that saw the in-form Ishan Kishan chop a ball onto his stumps for a rare first-ball duck, and Head out too soon after, brought MI back in the match for a brief period. However, using his blade like a sledgehammer, Heinrich Klaasen blasted 65 not out off just 30 balls, in an inning which included seven fours and four sixes, to take SRH home comfortably.