Rajasthan Royals were torn to shreds by the entire batting line-up of Sunrisers Hyderabad
England pacer Jofra Archer return to the Indian Premier League (IPL) was on the flip of a fairytale as he was clobbered all across the park by Sunrisers Hyderabad batters on Sunday.
In the second match of the IPL 2025 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad between SRH and Rajasthan Royals, Archer got handed the ball in the fifth over with Travis Head in strike. By the end of the over he was carted for 23 runs a six and four boundaries.
| Player | Overs | Match | Ground | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jofra Archer | 4-0-76-0 | RR v SRH | Hyderabad | IPL 2025 |
| Mohit Sharma | 4-0-73-0 | GT v DC | Delhi | IPL 2024 |
| Basil Thampi | 4-0-70-0 | SRH v RCB | Bengaluru | IPL 2018 |
| Yash Dayal | 4-0-69-0 | GT v KKR | Ahmedabad | IPL 2023 |
| Reece Topley | 4-0-68-1 | RCB v SRH | Bengaluru | IPL 2024 |
| Luke Wood | 4-0-68-1 | MI v DC | Delhi | IPL 2024 |
He was kept on hold until the 11th over before Head’s dismissal but the next three overs took his overall figures of 4-0-76-0 which is the worst in history of IPL.
In his second over, Archer faced off against Nitish Kumar Reddy who whacked him for a couple of boundaries after trying few variations in the same over. However, it was in the 13th over against Ishan Kishan that Archer’s unravelling began.
Kishan smacked the pacer for a six over the covers to bring up fifty in just 25 balls and a ball prior, had sent him over the fence with a hook over the wicket-keeper.
After running two singles with Nitish Kumar Reddy, Kishan opened space outside off-stump and played a beautiful lofted shot over the covers for a third six and made it 21 for the over.
It was already looking terrible for Archer at 0-57 after three overs, but Heinrich Klaasen made it much much worse, in fact the worst four overs in IPL history. Archer began the 18th over with a dangerous beamer that eked past Kishan and ran away to the boundary.
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The Free-Hit off the No-Ball was caught by long-off but it brought Klaasen to the strike and the South African blasted three boundaries to take Archer’s figures to 71 from 3.4 overs before Kishan smacked him for another boundary off the last ball to make it 76 from 24 balls.
More embarrassingly, there was just a single solitary dot ball. SRH went on to post a total of 286/6 in 20 overs, thanks to a collective effort from all their batters who clobbered 12 sixes and 34 boundaries in the innings.
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