Abhishek Sharma and I admire each other a lot, I would love to bat with him…: Travis Head
The 30th match of the 17th season of IPL was played at M Chinnaswamy ground in Bengaluru. In this match, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad were face to face. In which Sunrisers Hyderabad gave a record-breaking performance and won over RCB by 25 runs. In this match, Hyderabad, batting first, scored a record 287 runs on the basis of Travis Head’s century. However, in reply, RCB team could score only 262 runs for 7 wickets. Dinesh Karthik contributed the maximum 83 runs for RCB, although his innings went in vain.
Bangalore bowlers were washed away by Hyderabad batsmen.
Many batsmen of Hyderabad together had set this big target. First of all, Abhishek Sharma started by playing an inning of 34 runs in 22 balls. Apart from this, opening batsman Travis Head scored his fourth century of the season. Travis Head scored a brilliant century for SRH, he scored 102 runs in just 41 balls with the help of 9 fours and 8 sixes. There was a big partnership of 108 runs between the two openers.
After the dismissal of Head, the runs were being controlled, but Heinrich Klaasen, who came to bat, continued the game in the same style. He scored 67 runs on 31 balls. During this, 2 fours and 7 sixes came from his bat. Apart from this, Aiden Markram also batted amazingly and scored 32 runs on 17 balls.
I love batting with him – Travis Head
“The pitch surface was amazing. We also got feedback from the groundsmen regarding the pitch. We thought that we would have to adapt to the pitch and play well in the first six overs. But we had a batting order that had the license to wash the bowlers.”
Head further talked about batting with Abhishek Sharma.
“Abhishek (Sharma) and I admire each other a lot. We rely on each other’s confidence. I love batting with him.”