Ishan Kishan sent one soaring over deep backward square leg on Sunday night, and a piece of the big screen at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium came down with it. The SunRisers Hyderabad keeper-batter, facing Anshul Kamboj in the sixth over, picked the length quickly and lifted the ball for six during the IPL 2026 match against Chennai Super Kings in Chennai.
The strike briefly turned the focus from the scoreboard to the stadium itself. Star Sports clipped the moment online with a celebratory post showing Kishan’s clean hit, but the shot also left a small part of the screen on the ground, an odd detail in a match where every run mattered.
Chennai Super Kings needed the result just as badly as the spectacle. After Ruturaj Gaikwad won the toss and sent SunRisers Hyderabad into bat, Chennai posted 180 in 20 overs, built around Dewald Brevis’ 44, Kartik Sharma’s 32 and Shivam Dube’s 26. By the time the innings at Chepauk was being assessed late in the night, SunRisers were still chasing 38 from the final 24 deliveries, with the pressure fixed squarely on their middle order and on Kishan, who had already given them one of the cleanest shots of the evening.
The big screen damage did not affect the match, but it did underline how much force was behind the shot and how quickly a routine six can become the moment everyone remembers. For Chennai, the bigger calculation remained the points table and the playoff arithmetic that hangs over every late-season game; for Hyderabad, the ask was simpler and harder at the same time, to find 38 runs before the last over and turn a flashy stroke into a result.
Kamboj had the ball in hand, Kishan saw the length, and Chepauk saw the kind of hit that changes the feel of a chase. What happens next for SunRisers Hyderabad is a matter of closing out those final overs, but the night already had its image: one six, one fallen piece of the screen, and a match that moved faster than the stadium could absorb it.
