Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) finished with 105 for no loss in the powerplay against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in New Chandigarh in IPL 2026, which was the fifth instance of a side scoring 100 or more in the first six overs in the league. Here are all such instances.
It was the first season of Travishek, and they had plenty of fun. After DC opted to bowl, Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma left DC wondering what to do by taking 125 runs off the powerplay, the highest ever in the IPL. Each of the first six overs went for at least 19 runs, even as DC tried five different bowlers. Head and Abhishek combined to thump 13 fours and 11 sixes in the first six overs, which Head finished on a staggering 84 not out off just 26 balls. Abhishek, meanwhile, was going at a strike rate of 400 in smashing 40 from ten deliveries.
Travishek was at it again. LSG set SRH 166 to win, which they chased down inside ten overs. Abhishek started the carnage in the second over by going 4, 4, 4, 4 off successive legal deliveries from Yash Thakur. Head went even better. Despite two dots, K Gowtham was hit for 22 runs – three sixes and a four. The next three overs cost 60 runs, the highlight of which was Head going 4, 4, 6, 4, 4 off Naveen-ul-Haq in the fifth over. SRH finished the powerplay on 107 for no loss.
Sunil Narine and Chris Lynn set KKR’s chase of 159 alight. After Lynn hit Aniket Choudhary for two fours and a six in the opening over, Samuel Badree gave just six runs in the second. But from 20 for 0 in two overs, KKR went to 105 for 0 in six. Lynn took Yuzvendra Chahal for 14 runs, and Narine cracked 6, 6, 6, 4 off Badree to pick 25. Narine then crashed Sreenath Aravind for four fours and a six. On the way, he raised fifty off 15 balls – the joint-fastest in IPL at the time. Lynn completed the powerplay with a 20-run over, including two sixes and a four, off Chahal.
Take three from Head and Abhishek. They looted 105 runs in the powerplay, although only 20 runs came off the first two overs. All three boundaries until then had come from Abhishek, who then smashed two fours and two sixes in a 24-run over from Arshdeep Singh. Head got into the act in the fourth over. He took Marco Jansen for two fours and a six, before Abhishek launched Vijaykumar Vyshak for 6, 0, 6, 6, 0, 6. Head began the final over of the powerplay with 4, 4, 4 off Xavier Bartlett, whom Abhishek also took for a six.
Set 227 by Kings XI Punjab (now PBKS) to win Qualifier 2, CSK were 9 for 1 after one over. But Suresh Raina went 4, 4, 0, 6, 4, 0 off Sandeep Sharma to plunder 18 runs off the second over, before taking two boundaries off Parwinder Awana in the third. Raina then bashed Mitchell Johnson for a four and two sixes in a 20-run fourth over. Sandeep conceded only 11 in his next over, before Raina tore into Awana with 6, 6, 4, 4, 4 (nb), 4, 4 to rake up 33 and take CSK to 100 for 2 in six overs. But CSK still lost the match.
