IPL 2024 PBKS vs SRH Highlights: Sunrisers survive crazy finish, win by 2 runs as Ashutosh, Shashank bring Punjab close

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Shikhar Dhawan has won the toss and Punjab Kings bowl first.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: This only PBKS's second home match of the season. The Kings beat the Delhi Capitals by chasing down 175. The spinners didn't leak as many runs as the quicks on that night, but it's been more than two weeks since then and conditions could easily have changed.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: SRH are on a bit of a tour at the moment. They hosted CSK in their previous game but are now playing away from home to Punjab today. Next, they play in Bengaluru against RCB on April 15 and then Delhi Capitals in Delhi on April 20. After that they host RCB on April 25.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek has smashed 161 runs in four innings at a mind-boggling strike rate of 217.56. It is the highest scoring rate for any batter with a minimum of 100 runs in the season! Sharma has eclipsed the likes of Andre Russell (212.96) and Heinrich Klaasen (203.44) who follow on the list. Sharma has hit 15 sixes in the tournament – second only to Klaasen (17). He has cleared the fence every 4.9 deliveries which is the best such frequency for any batter who has faced a minimum of 20 balls this season. Just for perspective, Sharma hit a six every 24 deliveries on an average in the last three seasons.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pacers have enjoyed considerably more success at Mullanpur in T20 cricket since the 2023 season with 87 wickets as against 33 to spin in 10 matches, which wasn't quite the case in the one IPL game at the venue thus far.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: This is the first of four consecutive matches that the Punjab Kings will be playing, a rare luxury for a team as this means that they don't have to hop into a plane every time they finish a match for almost the rest of the month. After this, they take on

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head has not had a great time against spin this season. He has been utterly belligerent in the powerplay, scoring at a strike rate above 210 in the first six overs of matches. However, against spinners he has scored at a strike rate of just 81.25 and dismissed just twice.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: It is interesting to note that while the noise around the two sides has been vastly different going into the match, they are both on four points and placed fifth and sixth on the league table, SRH being ahead due to their net run rate. SRH have won and lost alternatively thus far while PBKS won their first game, then lost the next two matches and then won the last one that they played.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: SRH have two batters who have strike rates above 200 this season (minimum 100 runs). Abhishek Sharma is going at 217.56 while Heinrich Klaasen has struck at 204.85 this season. For PBKS Prabhsimran Singh has the highest strike rate at 161.53.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: SRH may lead the head to 14-7 but games between these two sides have been involved in some close games off late. Except for the latest one though, which was last season and SRH won by eight wickets.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Punjab Kings haven't been the best at scoring at a consistently high run rate in the death overs, or any part of an innings for that matter, but what has been worse is the number of runs they concede in that period. PBKS have the second-worst economy rate in overs 17-20 of 12.65, which is only behind bottom-placed Delhi Capitals.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: It is a 3-2 head-to-head count between SRH and PBKS in the last five meetings, indicating that a tight battle is likely to be on the cards in Chandigarh.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Captain Cummins hasn't been too interested in taking the new ball for Sunrisers but today there might be a case for him to do so. Cummins has a great record in the IPL against PBKS openers Dhawan and Bairstow. He has bowled 50 balls to them and conceded just 47 runs, dismissing them four times at an average of 11.75.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: SRH were second on the powerplay run rate charts until yesterday, when CSK brought KKR down. They now lead, having scored at 11.7 thus far this season.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: He is young, he is hungry and he seems to be in the purplest of purple patches at the moment. Abhishek Sharma has been bludgeoning bowling lineups almost every time he took the field this season. In four innings Abhishek has scored 91 runs at a strike rate of 245.9 and that is all just in the powerplay.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Mayank Agarwal had not played in the last game with Pat Cummins stating that he is unwell. It is also to be noted that Agarwal has been pretty much the only batter not firing in the SRH lineup. It will be interesting to see if SRH decide to play him today or not. "Unwell" is a vague description of his problem and it will be quite interesting if Cummins says that he continues to be in that stat.

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Both Shikhar Dhawan and Jonny Bairstow have famously played for SRH in the past. Of Dhawan's 6734 runs, 2518 have come for SRH (37.39%), while the corresponding numbers for Bairstow are 1038 out of 1372 (75.66%).

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Nitish Reddy, Pat Cummins(c), Jaydev Unadkat, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, T Natarajan, Travis Head, Umran Malik, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Rahul Tripathi, Mayank Agarwal, Upendra Yadav, Anmolpreet Singh, Jhatavedh Subramanyan, Sanvir Singh, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Marco Jansen, Akash Maharaj Singh

IPL Live Score 2024 PBKS vs SRH, Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Shikhar Dhawan(c), Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Shashank Singh, Jitesh Sharma(w), Harpreet Brar, Ashutosh Sharma, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Liam Livingstone, Rilee Rossouw, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Chris Woakes, Rishi Dhawan, Atharva Taide, Shivam Singh, Prince Choudhary, Vishwanath Singh

Hello and welcome to the Live coverage of match 23 in IPL 2024 where Punjab Kings host Sunrisers Hyderabad in Chandigarh. Stay tuned for more updates!