SunRisers Hyderabad beat the Rajasthan Royals by five wickets in the Super Saturday clash played in IPL 2026 on April 25. The Hyderabad-based franchise chased down a 229-run target with nine balls to spare to add two more points to their kitty.
SRH won the toss and returning skipper Pat Cummins chose to field first in Jaipur. The decision didn’t work in SRH’s favor initially as Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s century powered RR to 228/6 in their 20 overs.
In the second innings, RR leaked 229 runs in 18.3 overs and lost the contest by five wickets. Here’s a look at the scorecard, match stats and award winners from this IPL 2026 game.
RR vs SRH IPL 2026 scorecard
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi notched up his career’s second IPL century to inspire the Rajasthan Royals to 228/6 in their 20 overs. Dhruv Jurel supported him well with a half-century, but the other RR batters could not support him much.
Pat Cummins bowled a fantastic spell of 1/27 in four overs against the Rajasthan Royals. Although the overall run rate was above 11, Pat managed to bowl with an economy rate of 6.75.
Ishan Kishan destroyed the Rajasthan Royals bowling unit with a 31-ball 74 at number three. Abhishek Sharma chipped in with a quickfire half-ton at the top as SRH made light work of the run-chase.
Jofra Archer and Brijesh Sharma bagged a couple of wickets each for the Royals. However, their efforts went in vain as the chase ended in less than 19 overs.
RR vs SRH IPL 2026 full list of award winners
Although Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored a fine century in the first innings, the Man of the Match award went to Ishan Kishan for his match-winning knock of 74 runs in the second innings. Vaibhav won other awards at the post-match presentation ceremony. Here is the complete list of award winners:
Player of the Match: Ishan Kishan (74 off 31)
Super Striker of the Match: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (SR of 278.31)
Super Sixes of the Match: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (12 sixes)
Most Fours in the Match: Ishan Kishan (11 fours)
Most Dot Balls in the Match: Jofra Archer (13 dot balls)
RR vs SRH IPL 2026 stats and records
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became the youngest batter to score a hundred in IPL 2026. Here are some of the other top stats coming out from this night game between RR and SRH:
- SunRisers Hyderabad broke Punjab Kings’ record for the highest team total in IPL history at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium. SRH scored 229, while PBKS had scored 219 against RR last season.
- SRH broke their own record for the highest successful run-chase in Jaipur. In 2023, SRH chased down 215 against RR at their home, and now they have chased down 229.
- Riyan Parag lost a match for the first time as captain when RR were defending a target of 200 or more.
- SRH pulled off their second highest successful run-chase in IPL. The first was of 246 against PBKS in the year 2025.
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Edited by Vinay Chhabria










