Sunrisers Hyderabad pulled off a huge chase against Rajasthan Royals on Saturday, beating them by five wickets at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium after chasing 229 with nine balls in the IPL 2026.Teenager Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored 103 for Rajasthan Royals and smashed the third-fastest century in IPL history, reaching the hundred in just 36 balls. But his innings ended on the losing side as SRH’s batting unit combined to complete the fourth-highest run chase in IPL history.This came just hours after Punjab Kings chased down 265 against Delhi Capitals in New Delhi, which became the highest successful run chase in IPL history.For SRH, Ishan Kishan led the chase with 74 off 31 balls, while Abhishek Sharma made 57 off 29 balls after getting a lifeline in the innings.Heinrich Klaasen added 29 points and Nitish Kumar Reddy scored 36 points. Klaassen and Nitish added 53 runs for the fourth wicket to pull SRH closer before finishing the job comfortably.Rajasthan Royals used as many as eight bowling options, but poor fielding hurt them badly.They dropped Abhishek Sharma twice. First, Shimron Hetmyer moved away from third man when Abhishek hit the ball straight at him from Nandre Berger.
Later, Tusshar Deshpande bowled a low full toss and Abhishek clipped it to Ravindra Jadeja at backward point, but the catch was dropped again.RR also missed another chance when Brijesh Sharma dropped Nitish Reddy off Jofra Archer when he was on 14.Earlier in the innings, Dhruv Gurriel also dropped Travis Head off Archer in the first round. The header made just 6 before Archer caught him behind.Archer also tested Ishan Kishan with a 145.4kph short ball, which hit the helmet and escaped for four.
Kishan quickly recovered and hit three runs from Archer.Abhishek and Kishan then dominated the match. They added 132 runs for the second wicket in just 55 balls and kept SRH ahead in the chase.Earlier, Rajasthan Royals scored 228 for six, buoyed by another strong innings from 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.He made 103 off 37 balls with 12 sixes and five fours. He reached his hundred with a six off Sakib Hossain on his 36th ball, making it the third-fastest century in IPL history after his 35-ball knock last year and Chris Gayle’s 30 ton for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2013.Sooryavanshi got an early life as a 32-year-old after he was dropped by Aniket Verma at deep midwicket off Eshan Malinga.He made SRH pay for those mistakes and brought up his fifty in just 15 balls with a six in the sixth over.He added 40 runs in 14 balls for the first wicket and then shared a 112-run stand for the second wicket with Dhruv Gurel, who scored 51 off 35 balls.After hitting his century, Sooryavanshi was dismissed immediately as he missed the scoop of Saqib Hossain and was trapped lbw.Pat Cummins returned to SRH and finished with figures of 4-0-27-1, his only wicket coming off RR captain Riyan Parag for 7.