New Delhi: After the stormy batting of Ishan Kishan and the lethal bowling of debutant Prafulla Hinge and Shakib Hussain, Sunrisers defeated Rajasthan Royals by 59 runs. In the 21st match of IPL 2026, Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag won the toss and asked Sunrisers to bat first. Batting first, Sunrisers scored 216 runs in the stipulated 20 overs due to Ishan Kishan’s brilliant innings of 91 runs.
In response, Rasthan’s team could score only 159 runs in 19 overs. In this way, Sunrisers team stopped the winning campaign of Rajasthan Royals with its second win this season. This is Rajasthan’s first defeat in five matches. At the same time, Sunrisers led by Ishan Kishan seem to be back on the winning track once again.
Prafulla Hinge wreaked havoc in the very first over.
Rajasthan team, which came to chase the target of 217 runs against Sunrisers, got back footed in the very first over. The team’s young sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi lost his wicket against Prafulla Hinge on the very second ball of the innings. After Vaibhav, Prafulla also dismissed Dhruv Jurel and Dwayne Pretorius in the same over.
All these three batsmen could not open their account. Rajasthan had not yet recovered from the havoc of Prafull’s first over when the second debutant Shakib Hussain dismissed Yashasvi Jaiswal. After this, in the second over of his spell, Prafulla dismissed Rajasthan captain Riyan Parag and reduced the score to 5 wickets for 9 runs.
Ravindra Jadeja and Donovan Ferreira saved honor
After losing 5 wickets within 10 runs, it seemed that the Rajasthan team would hardly be able to cross the 50-run mark, but in the middle order, Ravindra Jadeja and Donovan Ferreira together took the score beyond 100. For Rajasthan, Ferreira played an inning of 69 runs in 44 balls. In this innings he also hit 7 fours and 3 sixes. Apart from this, Ravindra Jadeja contributed 42 runs in 32 balls. Apart from these two, only Tushar Deshpande crossed the double figures for Rajasthan.
Prafulla and Shakib wreaked havoc in their debut
In bowling for Sunrisers, Prafulla Hinge and Shakib Hussain wreaked havoc with their powerful bowling. Both these players made their IPL debut for Sunrisers. Prafulla took 4 wickets for 34 runs in his four over spell for Sunrisers.
Prafulla has become the first bowler in IPL history to take three wickets in the very first over of his debut match. Apart from this, Shakib Hussain also bowled strongly. Shakib took 4 wickets for 24 runs in his 4 overs for Sunrisers. Apart from these two, Ishan Malinga also took 2 wickets in the account of Sunrisers.
Ishan-Klassen batted strongly for SRH
If we talk about Sunrisers’ batting against Rajasthan, the start was not good. Abhishek Sharma was out on the first ball of the innings. However, after that, captain Ishan Kishan played a brilliant inning of 91 runs in 44 balls for the team. After this, in the last overs, due to the brilliant batting of Nitish Kumar Reddy and Salil Arora, the team’s score reached 216 runs for 6 wickets.
Apart from hitting eight fours and six sixes in his innings, Kishan made an important partnership of 88 runs for the third wicket with Heinrich Klaasen (40 runs in 26 balls). In the last overs, Reddy further accelerated the run rate by scoring 28 runs in just 13 balls, while Arora scored unbeaten 24 runs in 13 balls and took the team to a strong score.
