IPL 2025, SRH vs PBKS Highlights: Abhishek Sharma's record knock helps Sunrisers make mockery of 246-run target

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: A target of 246 has been chased down in a T20 match with more than an over to spare. If you were wondering why people were saying that SRH have raised the bar in T20 batting, you saw why today.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Shashank Singh thrown the ball for the 18th over and Klaasen blasts the first ball between long on and deep midwicket. Single and then Ishan Kishan hits the third ball past deep dover for another four. Single again, then Klaasen is beaten and so a dot fifth ball. The last ball is hit for a monster six over deep midwicket.

SRH need six to win off 12 balls. Once again, they are chasing 246. In a T20 match.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Pommie Mbangwa tries a good old-fashioned commentator's curse by indicating that they need 21 for a Super Over. Well we have seen some utterly unbelievable things happen today but well, even by those standards, a choke from SRH would be quite ridiculous, to put it mildly. Klaasen on strike though, he was part of a similar choke by South Africa against India in the T20 World Cup final, remember.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: That's all this is. This is not a dismissal. It is a chance for the stadium to rise and applaud an innings that will go down in T20 folklore.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Yep, no mistakes there. SRH really need just 28 to win here in the last four overs. Yash Thakur returns for the 16th, Abhishek blasts the second ball over long on for a six, then he makes room and clips a delivery full on leg stump fine for four. A bonkers shot to break the record for the highest IPL score by an Indian. Three singles after that.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Klaasen takes a single off the second ball from Chahal in the 15th over. Then Abhishek hits the third over deep backward square leg for a six. Chahal bowls the fourth wide outside off and well, when it is rebowled on middle, Abhishek sweeps it over short fine leg for four. Then he hits the fifth ball over deep midwicket for a six and then takes a single last ball to keep strike.

Abhishek on 125 off 48, Heinrich Klaasen at the other end playing second fiddle at four off six.

SRH 205/1 in 15 overs

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Take. A. Bow. Three singles come off Chahal after Head's fall. Another off the last ball and that raises three figures for Abhishek. He takes a bow and, takes out a piece of paper from his pocket and shows it to all parts of the ground. "This one's for the Orange Army," is what was scribbled on it, as we find out later. Unbelievable knock here.

SRH 175/1 in 13 overs, need 71 to win from 42, their required rate is 10.14, they are going at 13.46.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Shashank Singh thrown the ball in the 12th over, Abhishek hits back to back fours off the fourth and fifth balls. He gets to 98 in 38 balls, Head at the other end on 60 off 35.

Chahal comes back for the 13th now.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: What do you do as a bowling side in this situation. You thought PBKS's innings was incredible earlier today? Well Abhishek and Head are making that look like a slow grinding Test knock. Head slogs the second ball from Chahal in the 11th over between deep mid and long on. The former fielder dives right over the ball and it is a boundary which should've never been. That takes Head past fifty in 31 balls.

He is on 59 off 34, Abhishek has played one ball less than him but smashed 88 runs.

SRH 154/0 in 11 overs

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: It's official, we are witnessing something historic here. The target is is 246 and yet, it is the bowling side that is looking like a train has hit them. Jansen brought back for the 10th over but who cares? Not Abhishek or Head for sure.

Abhishek pulls the second ball for a flat six over square leg, the next is sent back down the ground for another six with a helicopter shot. Then back to back fours to end the over.

Abhishek is on 87 off 32, if you can believe it, Head on 49 off 29.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: 14 runs off the ninth but this partnership has been saw bizarrely incredible that it feels like par for course. Two singles off the first two balls of Maxwell's over, then Head makes room, the bowler follows and still he pulls it over long on for six. Then he pulls the fourth ball as well for an even bigger six. Head is on 49 off 29 at the end of that over, Abhishek on 67 off 26.

And well, well, well, Head has a few words with Maxwell after that and Stoinis steps in to separate his fellow Aussies.

SRH 123/0 in 9 overs

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Or rather, Travishek go past 100 in 46 balls. Yuzvendra Chahal brought on for the eighth over, starts with a shortish delivery and Abhishek top edges the pull. Chahal calls for it but then DROPS IT! The batters run a single there and another off the next ball and Abhishek sends the third soaring over midwicket for what has to be his 1000th six of the evening surely. Deep cover stops the fourth ball from reaching the boundary but the batters run three. Then Head cuts the fifth ball hard for four and finishes the over off with a single.

Head on 36 off 24, Abhishek on 66 off 25.

SRH 109/0 in 8 overs, need 137 to win from 72

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Their required rate is 11.76. Too easy, because they are going at 13.28. Abhishek races to fifty in 19 balls by edging the first ball of the 7th over bowled by Maxwell past leg stump and behind for four. Five singles and a wide after that in that over.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Abhishek Sharma on 49 off 18, Travis Head on 28 off 19. SRH are comfortably ahead of the required rate here which is just bonkers when you consider that they are chasing a target of 246 in a T20 match. Head pulls the last ball of that sixth over from Stoinis past midwicket for four.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Glenn Maxwell comes in to bowl the fifth over. Abhishek runs a single off the first ball, the second ball is wide down leg and then Maxwell appeals for caught behind against his Australia teammate. The umpire shakes his head, Iyer doesn't seem to sure but takes the review anyhow. No bat on it at all and so review lost. Another single and then Abhishek advances for the fourth ball and sends it over sweeper for a six. The fifth is powered through cover for four. Another wide down leg and then the batters run two.

Abhishek has incredibly reached 48 in just 15 balls, Head on 23 off 16.

SRH 76/0 in 5 overs, need 170 to win from 90

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Oh, the humanity! Head finishes the third over with a hat-trick of fours. Then the ball is tossed to Yash Thakur fourth over. Abhishek top edges a pull and clears short fine leg for a four. Then he slugs the third ball over midwicket for a six. He cuts the fourth ball and it goes straight into the hands of Shashank Singh at deep backward point. Celebrations everywhere but then that klaxon goes off for no ball! Free hit delivery is sent over square leg for a monster six. And then Thakur bowls a wide outside off, Abhishek swings at the legitimate fifth delivery and it somehow lands in no-man's land in the outfield with three fielders converging on it. A dot ball to end that utter mess of an over.

Abhishek on 35 off 11, Head on 22 off 14.

SRH 60/0 in 4 overs

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Now then, is today the day this partnership finally finds its feet? Abhishek faces his first ball off the second ball of the second with Head getting off strike. He flayed at it, takes an edge and goes over short third for a four. He is almost caught at cover third ball, it goes out of reach for Stoinis and the batters run two. Hat-trick of fours after that.

Abhishek on 18 off five, Head on 10 off seven.

SRH 28/0 in 2 overs

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Arshdeep swings the first ball away from Head, the batter left it alone. The second is swung in, Head hits it so well it almost goes all the way for six over cover. But takes a bounce just before the boundary and it is a four. Then he slaps the fourth ball in front of cover, takes a single last ball to keep strike.

Marco Jansen comes steaming in from the other end.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: If SRH do this, it will be the second most succesfull run chase of all time in the IPL. Based on last year's evidence, if any team can do it, it's SRH. But the opposite is true based on this year's evidence.

Travis Head facing up, Abhishek Sharma at the other end, Arshdeep Singh starts the PBKS attack. 246 to win.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Stoinis has a word with the broadcasters before heading back to the dressing room. "Has been a slow start for me, but that felt nice. Looks like there was a bit of spin and bounce. It was all about staying still. It is very good score. We will want to start well in the powerplay," he said.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Well scratch all that was said earlier about SRH's good finish. Mohammed Shami's figures have been absolutely dumped by Marcus Stoinis here. He has ended up conceding 27 runs in this over, and finishes the innings with figures of 0/75, the second worst for anyone in the history of the IPL.

Jansen took a single off the first ball and then Stoinis ran two. The third is a length ball on leg stump, Stoinis biffs over long on for a monster six. Then he uses his long levers to clear deep midwcket fourth ball. The fifth ball is sent over deep mid again and the last is sent soaring over deep square leg.

Stoinis finishes on 34 off 11. PBKS do get close to 250 after all.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Well it would've been four runs had it not been for Marcus Stoinis hitting his Australia teammate over mid-on for four last ball. This is a very good effort from SRH in the death. The question remains as to whether it is too late, but objectively, their battered fast bowlers can take some positives from this.

Mohammed Shami to bowl the last over, Marco Jansen on strike.

PBKS 218/6 in 19 overs

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: No century for the PBKS captain as he finds the point fielder to perfection.

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: Harshal Patel floats in a dipping full toss first ball, Maxwell shapes up to reverse it, misses it entirely and the ball brushes his pads and hits the stumps.

Maxwell b Harshal 3 (7)

PBKS 205/5 in 17.1 overs

SRH vs PBKS IPL Live Score 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings: And we can start muttering about a potential century here for the incredible Iyer. Malinga bowls out in the 17th, the first ball is in Iyer's arc and he pulverises it through extra cover for four. Two singles after that and then Iyer sends the fourth fine for a four. The next ball is sent fine again for another four and then Iyer makes a hat-trick of it by hitting the last ball past extra cover.

PBKS 205/4 in 17 overs