{"id":543233,"date":"2026-04-21T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543233\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:51:08","slug":"ipl-2026-abhishek-sharma-hits-135-not-out-for-sunrisers-against-delhi-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543233\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Abhishek Sharma hits 135 not out for Sunrisers against Delhi Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India opener Abhishek Sharma hit the fifth-highest score in Indian Premier League history for Sunrisers Hyderabad against Delhi Capitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old left-hander, who is number one in the men&#8217;s T20 batting rankings, batted throughout the innings for 135 not out from 68 balls in the hosts&#8217; 242-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He peppered the straight boundaries with powerful drives, hitting 10 sixes and 10 fours, and reached three figures in 47 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His score has only been bettered in the IPL by West Indies great Chris Gayle (175 not out),  Brendon McCullum (158 not out), Abhishek&#8217;s 141 on the same ground last year and Quinton de Kock&#8217;s 140 against Kolkata Knight Riders in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was also Abhishek&#8217;s ninth T20 century, taking him joint fourth on the all-time list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India opener Abhishek Sharma hit the fifth-highest score in Indian Premier League history for Sunrisers Hyderabad against Delhi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-543233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}