Sunrisers Hyderabad staged a big chase against Rajasthan Royals on Saturday, beating them by five wickets at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium after chasing 229 with nine balls to spare in IPL 2026.Teen sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored 103 for Rajasthan Royals and smashed the third fastest century in IPL history as he reached his hundred in just 36 balls. But his innings ended on the losing side as the SRH batting unit combined for the fourth highest run total in IPL history.This came just hours after Punjab Kings chased down 265 against Delhi Capitals in New Delhi, making it the most successful run 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 two lifelines in the innings.Heinrich Klaasen added 29 and Nitish Kumar Reddy scored 36. Klaasen and Nitish added 53 runs for the fourth wicket to bring SRH closer before finishing the job comfortably.Rajasthan Royals used as many as eight bowling options but poor fielding hurt them a lot.Abhishek Sharma dropped twice. First, Shimron Hetmyer moved away from third man as Abhishek hit one straight to him off Nandre Burger. Later, Tushar Deshpande bowled a low full toss and Abhishek cut it to Ravindra Jadeja at backward point but the catch was dropped again.RR also wasted another chance when Brijesh Sharma dismissed Nitish Reddy off Jofra Archer in the 14th over.Earlier in the innings, Dhruv Jurel also dropped Travis Head off Archer in the first over. Head only made 6 before Archer caught him behind.Archer also tested Ishan Kishan with a 145.4km/h short ball that edged, hit the helmet and ran away for four. Kishan quickly recovered and hit Archer with three fours.Abhishek and Kishan then took control of the game. They added 132 runs for the second wicket in just 55 balls and kept SRH well ahead in the chase.Earlier, Rajasthan Royals posted 228 for six, powered 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 Hussain on his 36th ball, making it the third-fastest century in IPL history after his own 35-ball hundred last year and Chris Gayle’s 30-ball ton for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2013.Sooryavanshi was given an early life on 32 after Aniket Verma dropped him at deep mid-wicket off Eshan Malinga.He made SRH pay for that mistake, getting his fifty in just 15 balls with a six in the sixth over.He added 40 runs off 14 balls for the first wicket and then shared 112 runs for the second wicket with Dhruv Jurel who scored 51 off 35 balls.After reaching his century, Sooryavanshi was immediately dismissed as he missed Sakib Hussain and was trapped lbw.Pat Cummins returned for SRH and finished with figures of 4-0-27-1 with his only wicket coming off RR skipper Riyan Parag for 7 overs.
