SRH’s Salil Arora created havoc in the practice match, hit 5 skyscraper sixes

Samira Vishwas

Tezzbuzz|23-03-2026

Sunrisers Hyderabad team has been preparing for IPL 2026 at its home ground in Hyderabad for the last few days and in this sequence, this team also played its first intra-squad match on March 21. Many positives emerged for the team in this match. First of all, Abhishek Sharma played a stormy inning of 94 runs, while Heinrich Klaasen also hit fours and sixes.

However, in the end, the batting done by 23-year-old Salil Arora mesmerized everyone. Salil, who comes from Punjab, showed that he is no less than anyone and created a ruckus in this practice match by hitting five sixes one after the other. Salil Arora, who has been consistently performing well in domestic cricket, grabbed headlines by playing a stormy innings in this warm-up match.

Salil, who came to bat in the middle order after the innings of Abhishek Sharma and Heinrich Klaasen, made the bowlers sweat by scoring 48 runs in just 16 balls. Arora, who was batting at a strike rate of 300, was out on the last ball of the innings. In this innings, Salil hit five sixes in five consecutive balls. Arora also hit two consecutive sixes on the last two balls of Jaydev Unadkat’s over and then hit three consecutive sixes as soon as he came on strike in the next over. Thanks to Arora’s brilliant batting, SRH A, batting first, managed to score 253 runs in 21 overs.

Let us tell you that Salil Arora was bought by SRH in the auction for Rs 1.50 crore, which was 5 times more than his base price (Rs 30 lakh). Salil had also shown his strength in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy before IPL 2026 and now his batting in the practice match has shown that he is completely ready to make a splash in the upcoming IPL season.