11 incidents documented
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Chennai Super Kings
18 May 2026
Ishan Kishan mimicked blowing a whistle at the Chepauk crowd and gestured for fans to leave after SRH's five-wicket win over CSK — a celebration that divided the cricket world, with R. Ashwin criticising him and Sunil Gavaskar defending him.
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
23 May 2026
Virat Kohli walked past an outstretched hand from Travis Head without acknowledgement at the post-match handshake ceremony following Sunrisers Hyderabad's 55-run defeat of Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on 23 May 2026. The snub came after a heated on-field exchange in RCB's chase of a massive 256-run target, during which Kohli, set up by Venkatesh Iyer's blazing start, taunted Head by miming the Impact Player signal and appearing to invite him to come and bowl. Kohli was dismissed for 15 off 11 balls — to a bowler other than Head — and Head's parting line, audible to multiple broadcasters, was: "Mate, you got out before I even came on to bowl." After the match, Kohli shook hands with SRH captain Pat Cummins and Abhishek Sharma but visibly bypassed Head, who was standing in the handshake line with his arm extended. Head's subsequent Instagram story — "Keep the body guessing" — went viral.
Mumbai Indians vs Sunrisers Hyderabad
29 April 2026
Ryan Rickelton smashed the fastest century by a Mumbai Indians batter in IPL history — 100 off 44 balls — in MI's clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad on 29 April 2026. Rickelton finished unbeaten on 123 off 55 deliveries, the highest individual score by an MI batter in IPL history.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
5 May 2026
Sunrisers Hyderabad's IPL 2026 produced internal franchise discussion about whether Ishan Kishan should take over the SRH captaincy from Pat Cummins. The Cummins-Kishan internal debate, reported across cricket media, saw the franchise eventually back Cummins through the season — partly on the strength of his bowling contribution, partly on the difficulty of switching captains mid-tournament.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
2 April 2026
Sunrisers Hyderabad opener Abhishek Sharma was fined and given one demerit point for a Code of Conduct breach in an early IPL 2026 match — one of the season's first formal disciplinary actions, and a marker for what would become a busier-than-usual sanction season for the IPL match referee.
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings
6 May 2026
Shashank Singh's IPL 2026 fielding curse continued at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on 6 May 2026 when he dropped Heinrich Klaasen off Yuzvendra Chahal's bowling — a slog sweep that flew straight to him at the boundary, sat in his hands for a fraction of a second, and slipped out. PBKS fans on social media were unforgiving.
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings
6 May 2026
Three different Punjab Kings fielders dropped catches in a single match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on 6 May 2026 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium — Lockie Ferguson, Aaron Connolly and Shashank Singh — turning a difficult evening into the most public single-match collapse of the season's PBKS fielding crisis.
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings
May 2026
Heinrich Klaasen's IPL 2026 record against Punjab Kings reads like the index page of a fielding-textbook chapter on dropped catches. He has been put down by PBKS fielders at least three times across two fixtures, with each lifeline converting into a meaningful score. Klaasen's series of low-30s innings extended to 60s and 70s by the time the catches were finally taken — when, indeed, they ever were.
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings
6 May 2026
Ishan Kishan was lifelined by a PBKS dropped catch at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on 6 May 2026 and converted the reprieve into a sixty that helped SRH win comfortably. The drop joined the same match's catalogue of three different PBKS fielders putting down catches — the season's most public single-match collapse of the visiting franchise's fielding standards.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Sunrisers Hyderabad
22 March 2026
The first controversy of IPL 2026 arrived in the tournament's opening match. Sunrisers Hyderabad batter Heinrich Klaasen was given out for 31 off 22 balls when Phil Salt held a low catch at the deep boundary off Romario Shepherd's bowling. Third umpire Rohan Pandit, working with the angles available to him during the review, ruled the catch fair on the basis of inconclusive evidence. Minutes later, broadcasters aired a top-angle replay that had not been provided during the review and which appeared to show the boundary cushion moving as Salt completed the take. Klaasen, by then walking off, was filmed in a heated exchange with the fourth umpire near the boundary rope.
Bangladesh / Sunrisers Hyderabad
29 October 2019
Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan was banned for two years (one year suspended) by the ICC for failing to report multiple corrupt approaches by a bookmaker during IPL 2018 and a tri-series.