SRH vs RR Highlights, IPL 2026: Praful Hussain, Sakib Hussain demolish Royals, leading Sunrisers to a 57-run win

SRH vs RR Live Score: Gone!!!! Huge wicket for the Royals!!! Ishan Kishan departs for 91. Just the wicket Royals needed to comeback.

SRH vs RR Live Score: Four boundaries and 17 runs off it. The over SRH needed. Ishan Kishan enters 90s.

SRH vs RR Live Score: Ishan Kishan and Heinrich Klaasen switch gears. The momentum of the game shift towards SRH again.

SRH vs RR Live Score: Ishan Kishan is changing the game around. He is now trying to score quickly and get SRH to an above par total.

SRH vs RR Live Score: Ishan Kishan gets to his half-century in 30 balls. With Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma back in the dug out this has been a very matured knock from the SRH captain.

SRH vs RR Live Score: Heinrich Klaasen has joined Ishan Kishan in the middle. The duo is looking to rebuild and take SRH towards a formidable total.

SRH vs RR Live Score: Travis Head departs!!!! Captain Riyan Parag gets the big wicket. SRH pushed to the backfoot once more.

SRH vs RR Live Score: The powerplay has come to an end. After that early wicket, SRH have recovered well to go past 50 in the first six overs.

SRH vs RR Live Score: Six more!!!! Abhishek Sharma may be back in the hut, Ishan Kishan is not curbing his instincts for that. He takes down Burger now.

SRH vs RR Live Score: Ishan Kishan shows a bit of fight back with a four and a six in that over. Hyderabad will hope the captain stays there and changes the complexion of this match.

SRH vs RR Live Score: Two overs done. Just 6 runs in two overs with Abhishek back in the hut.

SRH vs RR Live Score: A wicket and just 2 runs of the first over. An ideal start for the Royals.

SRH vs RR Live Score: Oh!!! Archer gives a wonderful start to RR. Abhishek Sharma goes for a golden duck.

SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Live Score: So, we are all set to go. Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head to start the innings for SRH. Jofra Archer will start the proceedings for RR with the ball.

SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Live Score: Impact Player Substitutions -

Rajasthan Royals: Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Ravi Singh, Brijesh Sharma, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Smaran Ravichandran, Harshal Patel, Liam Livingstone, Shivam Mavi, Sakib Hussain

The playing XI of the two teams are here -

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

Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (c), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Praful Hinge, Eshan Malinga

SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Live Score: Rajasthan Royals have won the toss, and they have decided to field first.

SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Live Score: The captaincy spotlight in SRH vs RR may be split, but on individual performance this season, Ishan Kishan has been ahead of Riyan Parag. The Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper has scored 122 runs in IPL 2026 so far at a strike rate of 179.41 and an average of 30.50, while also positing a higher overall impact.

Riyan Parag, meanwhile, has scored 44 runs at a strike rate of 146.67 at an average of 14.67.

SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Live Score: Only one match has been played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in IPL 2026. In the game, SRH were strangled early at 22/3 in powerplay, scoring at just 3.67 runs per over, before exploding for 72 runs in overs 12-16 at 14.40. LSG then chased 160 by winning the start, making 53/1 in powerplay, and never really letting the game drift.

So this has not yet played like a blind six-hitting strip. The truer read is this: the new ball can still bite, but once set batters get through that phase, the surface opens up quickly. Early control may decide tonight's contest.

SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Live Score: The batter of the openers in SRH vs RR brings together two pairs with very different season shapes. RR's Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi have put together first-wicket stands of 74,82,82 and 8, giving them 246 runs at an average of 61.50 across four matches. SRH's Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma have returned 18, 82, 1 and 120 for 221 runs at 55.25.

RR's pair has been the more reliable engine, with Vaibhav and Yashasvi delivering stronger season-long output. SRH's duo has shown the wilder swing, producing both the lowest and highest opening stand between the two teams.

SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Live Score: This game comes with a clear-points table split. Rajasthan Royals walk in as the team to beat, sitting top of the IPL 2026 points table with four wins in four matches and 8 points. Their early-season charge is powered by a blazing batting unit and a net run rate that has kept them ahead of the pack.

Sunrisers Hyderabad, meanwhile, are still searching for lift-off, with one win from four matches and 2 points, leaving them in the lower half and badly in need of a result that can steady both the campaign and dressing-room mood.

SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Live Score: The SRH-RR clash also brings together two of the most explosive young batters in the league, but on numbers, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has been ahead of Abhishek Sharma so far in IPL 2026. The RR opener has scored 200 runs at a stunning strike rate of 256.41.

Abhishek Sharma has also been dangerous for Sunrisers Hyderabad, scoring 129 runs at a strike rate of 186.96, but his returns have been less consistent.

SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Live Score: SRH's bowling season has so far been defined by one major issue: they have fallen behind too early, too often. SRH have conceded 296 runs at 12.33 runs per over in the powerplay across four matches while taking only five wickets, making the first six overs their biggest problem phase by some distance. That has repeatedly left them trying to repair the innings rather than control it.

There have still been useful pockets. Shivang Kumar has made an impact in 7-11 overs, while Harsh Dubey has offered control and wickets later on. But the larger picture remains shaky, with SRH leaking heavily even in phases where wickets have come.

SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Live Score: RR's bowling in IPL 2026 has been shaped less by pure run suppression and more by timely damage. They have taken 12 wickets in the powerplay and 13 more in overs 7-11, showing how efficiently they have broken innings before the death overs arrive. That middle phase has been particularly strong, with RR combining wicket pressure and control to prevent teams from settling.

The attack has still leaked runs in patches, especially later in the innings, but RR's bowling identity is clear: strike early, squeeze in the middle, and force opponents into recovery mode. Ravi Bishnoi has been the standout figure in that pattern, while Jofra Archer and Nandre Burger have added pace and penetration around him.

SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Live Score: Sunrisers Hyderabad's batting in IPL 2026 has looked dangerous in flashes rather than fully settled across the innings. They have scored at 10.83 runs per over in the powerplay, with Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head setting the tone, but have also lost seven wickets in that phase, underscoring the risk of their early aggression.

Their clearest slowdown has come in overs 7-11, where the run rate drips to 7.75, and the innings often loses shape. But SRH have responded well in overs 12-16, scoring at 11 runs per over, with Heinrich Klaasen and Nitish Kumar Reddy driving the recovery.