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Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: A day before the Sunrisers Hyderabad took the field against Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday, Travis Head talked about the side’s strategy of maximising power-play to the fullest in IPL 2024 in a select virtual media interaction.

"Here at the Sunrisers, the aim has been to take control of the Powerplay and be aggressive in the Powerplay. Myself, Abhi (Abhishek Sharma) and Klass (Heinrich Klassen) are able to do that. Every team has got different identities and different game plans and ours is to try to make the most of the Powerplay with the kind of batting we have got," Head had said.

On Saturday, Head and Abhishek did exactly what SRH have been successful at: go big in power-play and take bowlers to cleaners to pile another big total. Once DC skipper Rishabh Pant won the toss and put SRH into batting first, few would have predicted an absolute hurricane of boundaries coming from willows of Head and Abhishek in a power-play which looked more like stick cricket in fast-forward mode.