Heinrich Klaasen beats Hazlewood (Photo-PTI)
Heinrich Klassen vs Josh Hazlewood: Sunrisers Hyderabad batsman Heinrich Klaasen once again played an amazing innings and scored a brilliant half-century. He played an inning of 51 runs in 24 balls against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Heinrich Klaasen hit 5 sixes and 2 fours in his innings and he beat Josh Hazlewood, one of the best bowlers in the world, the most. Josh Hazlewood forgot to bowl in front of him. Heinrich Klaasen scored 27 runs in the over of this world class bowler.
heinrich classen Hazlewood was remanded in the 13th over. On Hazlewood's second ball, Klaasen hit a six over midwicket. Hazlewood bowled the next two balls wide. Hazlewood hit an amazing six on the third ball. He hit a four on the fourth ball and then Klaasen hit a six on the fifth ball. One run was scored on the last ball and Hazlewood gave away 27 runs.
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Josh Hazlewood also made mistakes in the 18th over. This player dropped an easy catch of Ishan Kishan on his fourth ball. On the next ball, he gave up the chance to run out Ishan Kishan. Hazlewood gave away 55 runs in his 4 overs. Let us tell you that Hazlewood has taken 12 wickets in 11 matches this season and his economy rate is 9.6 runs per over.
By the way, it was not only Hazlewood who was beaten. Other bowlers of RCB were also beaten badly. Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave 51 runs in 4 overs. Whereas Rasikh Salam Dar took 2 wickets but gave away 52 runs. Suyyash did not give away 36 runs and Shepherd did not give away 37 runs in 3 overs. Hyderabad scored 255 runs in 20 overs.
Heinrich Klaasen remains the run machine of Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL. This player has scored 606 runs in 14 matches at an average of 50.50 this season. He has scored 6 half-centuries from his bat. Klaasen has hit 30 sixes and 46 fours in IPL 2026.
