SRH vs PBKS Highlights IPL 2026: Powerful SRH rise to top of table, no support for Cooper Connolly's lone warrior knock
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings Highlights, IPL 2026: The entirety of SRH's top five clicks to help them to first place on the table, vaulting over a Punjab team which was profligate in the field, dropping several chances. 235 always too much, despite Cooper Connolly's 107*.
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings Highlights, IPL 2026: More than ever, the Indian Premier League is all about its fireworks and brute force. Run-rates rocket and boundaries are breached again and again, and no two teams are better examples of this than Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings. One team which likes to set up totals with their flamboyant batting unit, against another which likes knocking them down for fun....Read More
SRH had their five-match winning run interrupted in a rude fashion as they were put into a bind by KKR's spin twins at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium over the weekend, a fast start rendered obsolete as they wound up limping to the finish line. They had a chance to go to the top of the table then, and tonight, the peak beckons once again. A win over table-leaders Punjab would see the Orange Army vault to first place, and take a huge step towards securing a top two berth in the playoff system where they are a big threat.
But for the travelling Punjab Kings, the trip down south before a return to their mountainous abode in Dharamshala gives them an opportunity to open up some daylight. They have a game in hand over the chasing pack of RR, SRH, and GT, all of whom are on 12 points after 10 games: with 13 points in 9, opening up a wider gap will give them the room and breathing space towards the end of the season to gather themselves before the playoffs, which are an inevitability at this point.
What will concern Shreyas Iyer's team is that they have already slipped slightly – perhaps it is to be expected, after they became the first IPL team to go through an entire first half of the season unvanquished. But bruising losses to RR and GT have allowed that very chasing pack to pull within touching distance, leading to a night when that precarious hold to the top of this table could let slip from their hands.
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- 6 May 2026, 11:09:38 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Sunrisers win by 33 runs and climb to top of the table!
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: A big win that takes them to the top of the IPL table and helps them collect some bonus NRR – a formality in the end, but good knock from Connolly on the night even as it goes in vain.
A new team at the top of the table!
- 6 May 2026, 11:07:11 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Century for Cooper Connolly – muted celebration
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Sweeps fine and picks up four – that's a century for Cooper Connolly! His return to form will be the one big positive from this match.
Last couple of balls.
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- 6 May 2026, 11:03:43 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: 187/6 with last over coming – Connolly on 95*
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Match gone now, but Connolly will want to get a century and importantly get his team past 200 to rescue some NRR. Big six to take him to the 90s.
- 6 May 2026, 10:48:18 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Going through the motions now – 130/6 with 5 to play
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Things have certainly quietened down now. 106 needed off 30 – it's about minimising that NRR damage now, from PBKS' perspective.
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- 6 May 2026, 10:32:42 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Shashank next to go! Can't clear square leg
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Shashank tries to go big early, and falls! Tries to hook it away off Sakib, but Nitish Reddy on the boundary grabs hold.
119/6 now – looking a far way off, this target now.
- 6 May 2026, 10:25:28 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: And Shedge falls! Cummins strikes on return
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Pat Cummins at it again! Brings himself on after a couple of big overs, and Shedge can't find the power on the pull shot. High into his collar, great bumper, spliced towards midwicket where it is well-taken again.
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- 6 May 2026, 10:23:35 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: 18-run over – PBKS continue to battle
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: PBKS won't go down without a fight. It's Shedge who goes hard now, against Shivang. A couple of sixes down the ground, and a four thrown in too. High on confidence after his fifty, can he help Punjab motor throught he middle overs?
- 6 May 2026, 10:17:51 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: 6, 6 – things slow down but Connolly fires back
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Things were beginning to dawdle but they won't want to die wondering, will PBKS. Connolly set now so will want to go as hard as possible with batting yet to come. A couple of clean hits.
91/4 at the halfway mark.
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- 6 May 2026, 10:01:58 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Shivang Kumar strikes! Removes Stoinis, breaks partnership
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Stoinis and Connolly were threatening with some quick boundaries but that does the trick! Skids it through, does Shivang, and the attempted cut only catches a feather as it gets some extra bounce. Hard off Kishan's gloves, but he collects on the second attempt.
- 6 May 2026, 09:52:12 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: 19-run over! PBKS being bailed out
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Don't need to provide a struggling team errors like that! A massive beamer from Sakib, away from Stoinis' body which is helped on for four, before the free hit is clipped off his legs and hit for six!
SRH need to maintain their discipline here.
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- 6 May 2026, 09:42:47 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: MALINGA SNAPS UP SHREYAS – could that be it?
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: HUGE WICKET! Eshan Malinga amongst it yet again, hits a hard length that catches Shreyas high on the bat as he tries to clear the straight fielders. Goes nowhere, Cummins can circle and snap it up easily.
23/3 now, is there a way back for Punjab?
- 6 May 2026, 09:38:19 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Release for Connolly – hammers free-hit for six
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: The runs still coming – Cummins commits the sin of over-stepping. Connolly clears his front leg and slices a long six over point.
PBKS won't shy down just yet.
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- 6 May 2026, 09:31:44 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: AND NOW PRABH OUT! NKR gets him, Cummins with the catch
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: TERRIFIC! Dream start for SRH. Just a little bit of shape from Nitish Kumar Reddy onto off-stump, Prabhsimran tries to flick it, but a massive leading edge high up. Not an easy catch for Cummins to go after, but he gets underneath it and takes a really nice grab!
4/2, PBKS in big trouble.
- 6 May 2026, 09:29:26 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: GOT HIM! The ploy against Priyansh works a treat
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: This has been the go-to tactic against Priyansh Arya ever since Jofra Archer had him hopping – short and sharp on a fifth-sixth stump line, take away the pull and take away the drive over covers! Arya loses all shape trying to go after it, and it's an excellent catch in the deep from Eshan Malinga! First blood SRH!
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- 6 May 2026, 09:23:21 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Ready for the chase – Cummins wants an early wicket
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Here we go then – Pat Cummins with the first over and the fresh new ball against the dangerous PBKS openers. First over will tell us a lot about the chase.
- 6 May 2026, 09:08:27 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: SRH finish on 235/4
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Klaasen gets away a six and then a four, but no further damage – last ball of the innings, he gets underneath one and skies it up, easily taken by Jansen.
235/4 – runs on the board are runs on the board, but is it enough against Punjab? We find out soon!
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- 6 May 2026, 09:02:04 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Good 19th from Arshdeep – concedes only 10
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: You very much take that over from Arshdeep if you're a Punjab fan. Nails his lengths and does concede one four, but that's not worst case.
SRH looking at 15+ in this over.
- 6 May 2026, 08:56:49 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: NKR connects again – 13 run over!
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: It was a really good over from Lockie Ferguson to that point, but Nitish Kumar Reddy gets one right where he wants it! On his legs and he can take a free swing to pick up an easy six!
212/3 now – with two overs to go, what is the target from here?
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- 6 May 2026, 08:52:41 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: 199/3 after 17 – Klaasen, NKR go bang, bang!
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Couple of terrific shots in that over from Klaasen and NKR, dismissing Marco Jansen deep into the leg-side with some ferocious power!
3 overs to come – how much can SRH get here? They know defending against this team is tricky.
- 6 May 2026, 08:40:01 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Kishan falls – catch held onto this time!
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Finally a catch sticks in the hands – Suryansh Shedge on the fence. Great over from Arshdeep, into the surface and Ishan can't get enough muscle on it. Floats nicely to midwicket and a simple catch is taken confidently this time.
172/3 with 32 balls to play.
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- 6 May 2026, 08:34:26 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Kishan, Klaasen clicking into gear – PBKS haunted by Kishan's hat-trick of sixes
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Every boundary from this pair of batters from here on in will sting Punjab that much more. Klaasen ends the 13th over with six, and Kishan hammers Vyshak for three consecutive sixes the very next over. The runs flowing with real ease all over again!
- 6 May 2026, 08:21:37 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: A THIRD DROP – Chahal cannot believe his eyes!
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Not working out for PBKS at all! Kishan pulls it but not with enough timing, and Lockie Ferguson on the fence is set underneath it. Should be a simple grab, but ends up having to lean forward and shells it!
With Ricky Ponting being interviewed in the dugout too – a smile on his face, but he won't be best pleased by the catching efforts today.
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- 6 May 2026, 08:19:15 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: 118/2 at halfway mark
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: PBKS doing well to pull things back slightly, but SRH still set up for something close to 230 – will that even be enough?
- 6 May 2026, 08:14:08 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: AND NOW KLAASEN DROPPED BY SHASHANK SINGH
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: HE SIMPLY CAN'T GET ANYTHING TO STICK! He is going through a really tough spell in the field, this is not a normal number of drops – Shashank looking shell-shocked. Klaasen tries to take Chahal on with a slog sweep but top edges it towards fine leg, where Shashank has all the time in the world, but ends up stretching for it – shells it and concedes four more!
107/2 – can't give batters like this bonus lives!
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- 6 May 2026, 08:07:14 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: KISHAN DROPPED ON THE BOUNDARY! Gets away with one
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: LUCKY FOR ISHAN KISHAN! Hooks it straight to Cooper Connolly, who makes a meal of a really standard chance – looks like he takes his eyes off it at the last second to shell a simple opportunity, and that could be a key moment!
- 6 May 2026, 08:04:20 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: CHAHAL DISMISSED HEAD!
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: GOT HIM! Really well bowled. Given air, brave bowling from Chahal. Gets enough bite to extract a mis-hit from Head, sliced into the air, and well-taken by Jansen at long off.
84/2 now, something for SRH to think about.
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- 6 May 2026, 07:59:56 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: SRH finish powerplay on 79/1
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Travis Head continues to look in devastating touch – 35*(16) thus far. Ishan Kishan will want to get into his work as the spinner comes into the attack.
- 6 May 2026, 07:49:53 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Miles into the air – ABHISHEK FALLS!
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: THERE'S A KEY WICKET! Abhishek tries to go big across the line against Lockie Ferguson but can't get anything of it – straight into the air, but towering, takes some catching, and captain Shreyas underneath it with safe hands!
PBKS have a chance to pull things back big-time here now.
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- 6 May 2026, 07:45:33 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: 48/0 after 3! SRH on fire early
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Expensive overs! 11, 21, then 16 – great start for SRH. Are they looking at another huge powerplay?
- 6 May 2026, 07:43:49 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: FLAT SIX – Travis Head joins in, and then with another
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: BANG! Hard length from Arshdeep but Head can hammer it hard square of the wicket for six more.
The next ball is even more emphatic – in front of square this time, clearing the man on the fence with ease!
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- 6 May 2026, 07:39:34 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: 6, 4, 6! Abhishek brings out the big guns
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Here we go then! He's hungry today. Gets a couple of length balls which he tonks with easy bat swings straight over the boundary for huge maximums, and even the surprise bouncer is helped along for four!
Score 141 when these teams last met on this surface – similar intentions today?
- 6 May 2026, 07:33:52 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Early six from Abhishek off Arshdeep!
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: We are off, and good start for Abhishek! Second ball of the innings, he gets one very nicely overpitched by Arshdeep, and can hit through the line over the top for six. As easy as you like.
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- 6 May 2026, 07:23:07 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: PBKS XI
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Shashank returns and as does Lockie Ferguson – looks like Nehal dropped.
PBKS XI: Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (c), Shashank Singh, Suryansh Shedge, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Lockie Ferguson, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal
Impact: Arya, Brar, Bartlett, Musheer, Vinod
- 6 May 2026, 07:12:12 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: SRH playing XI
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Aniket left out for the returning Nitish.
SRH XI: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (wk), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, Smaran Ravichandran, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Pat Cummins (c), Shivang Kumar, Eshan Malinga, Sakib Hussain
Impact: Aniket, Hinge, Livingstone, Harshal, Dubey
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- 6 May 2026, 07:03:10 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Shreyas Iyer wins toss, opts to BOWL first
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Punjab Kings win the toss and captain Shreyas Iyer opts to bowl first! No surprise there. Team news up next.
- 6 May 2026, 06:50:44 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Nitish Kumar Reddy expected to return
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Nitish Kumar Reddy missed SRH's match against KKR – and the lack of balance affected by his missing out found evidence in how SRH proceeded to lose their first match in six attempts. NKR has been in top batting form, playing a handful of key cameos, and is a new man with the ball – a key piece.
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- 6 May 2026, 06:30:44 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Half an hour to the toss
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: 30 mins until the toss. Here is one team that likes to bat first and put up a total and another that likes to chase – neither team will be too unhappy with the toss in that sense. But don't be shocked if Pat Cummins will want to chase either.
- 6 May 2026, 06:15:44 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Sunrisers need Indian batting middle order to find their roar
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: The top four of Abhishek, Head, Ishan Kishan, and Heinrich Klaasen have enjoyed phenomenal seasons thus far – enough to make SRH real contenders. What the team would really like to see is a little more from the faith they are showing in Salil Arora and Aniket Verma. Both have been quality in flashes, but when the going gets tough, they need to begin putting their hand up a little more, perhaps taking notes from Prabhsimran and Priyansh across from them tonight.
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- 6 May 2026, 06:00:10 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Punjab's bowling under the scanner
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: This match will provide a key test of a Punjab bowling unit which has increasingly seen questions asked of its wicket-taking and run-preventing ability. Having conceded 200+ several times this season and failing to take wickets regularly, the lack of form for players like Arshdeep Singh is a big concern. They have 5 matches in the group stages to find the right combination and their rhythm, otherwise threaten to have a potential weakness exposed in the playoffs once they get there.
- 6 May 2026, 05:40:50 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: The battle of power-packed openers
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: The key battle in this game will come down to which pair of opening batters can find the most success early on. The uncapped duo of Prabhsimran and Priyansh have been mightily impressive, but the experience and international pedigree of Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head could be telling.
Both pairs of batters have been in terrific form – Head in particular is beginning to find his range at this part of the season, and that makes the combination of him alongside Abhishek extremely potent. A big task for Prabharya to keep up with them.
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- 6 May 2026, 05:25:13 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: PBKS held back by two successive losses
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: After going unbeaten and winning six of their first seven matches, Punjab Kings were in a truly comfortable position to run ahead and finish in the top two spots. They have seen their momentum held back a touch in the last week or so – losses to RR and GT in quick succession has exposed some of the flaws, but Ricky Ponting and Shreyas Iyer will back their team to come roaring back against a strong team.
- 6 May 2026, 05:10:50 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: SRH's five-match winning run ends with a loss
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: After that match, SRH well and truly clicked into gear – five wins in a row, figuring out their bowling combination, boosted by Pat Cummins' return, and roaring into the top 4 picture on the back of their batting and pace bowling. They did lose to KKR more recently, but they will hope that is nothing but a brief bump.
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- 6 May 2026, 04:55:36 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: Last time out – openers, Shreyas help PBKS chase down big score vs SRH
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: This is the second meeting of the year for these two teams, with Punjab hosting SRH at Mullanpur earlier in the season. SRH put on a strong 219 thanks to Abhishek Sharma exploding – but as has been the rule in IPL 2026, that wasn't nearly enough. Fifties for Prabhsimran, Priyansh, and finally Shreyas got the job done for PBKS with 7 balls to spare.
- 6 May 2026, 04:40:42 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: One point separates tonight's team
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: With 13 points from 9 games, PBKS sit on top of the table ahead of four teams on 12 points – one of them being SRH, after 10 games.
PBKS have a game in hand at this stage, but wins on the board matter more than anything else in this league.
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- 6 May 2026, 04:30:03 PM IST
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: HELLO AND WELCOME!
SRH vs PBKS LIVE Score: A huge night in the picture if this season's enthralling IPL. In a tournament that has been all about powerplay bashing and getting off to good starts, it is two teams with the best ability to do that this year – SRH, hosting PBKS at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, with the winner ending the night in first place in the table. Stay tuned!