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Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma flopped in the first qualifier of IPL 2024 on Tuesday. Both of them were instrumental in giving SRH a flying start to the league stage. Head’s account did not open against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). He was clean bowled by Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc on the second ball of the first over of the innings. His account was not opened. Head looked to play a shot at compatriot Starc on the leg side but missed. The ball went in quickly and two stumps were uprooted. After all, he was dismissed for nil in the league match as well.
At the same time, fast bowler Vaibhav Arora guided Abhishek to the pavilion on the fifth ball of the second over. He was trying to hit a cover over on a good length ball outside the off stump, but Andre Russell jumped and took a brilliant catch. Abhishek faced four balls and scored three runs. He scored brilliant half-centuries in his last two matches. He scored 66 against Punjab Kings and an unbeaten 75 against Lucknow Super Giants. He has scored 470 runs in 14 matches. Head has scored a total of 533 runs with the bat, including a century.
After winning the toss and batting first at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, the Hyderabad team fell badly in the powerplay. SRH added 45 runs for the loss of four wickets in the first 6 overs. Starc took two wickets in two consecutive balls in the fifth over. He had Nitish Reddy caught by wicketkeeper Rahmanullah Gurbaz and bowled Shahbad Ahmed. Reddy scored 9 runs in 10 balls with a four. Shahbaz became a victim of golden duck. After this, Rahul Tripathi (55 off 35 balls) shared a 62-run partnership for the fifth wicket with Henrik Klaassen (32 off 21 balls).