SunRisers Hyderabad’s Ishan Kishan has shared a surprising request from one of their contingents during the drinks break of the IPL 2025 match against the Rajasthan Royals on Sunday. With Kishan sharing that they had the target to reach 288 and couldn’t do it in that game, he feels it’s a good motivation to return in the next match as well.

Speaking at the post-game presser, Kishan said, as quoted by ESPN Cricinfo: “Someone came in the middle with a water bottle and said we need to cross this total [their record of 287]. I was like, I did not know if there was a target set or something, but yeah, when you don’t achieve the goal, it’s something like you want to do it again. We did not do it today, so it’s good to have that target goal for us coming back. Some days [when] we get a good start, batters are set, we will try and definitely get a record total.”

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Ishan Kishan applauded the simple approach kept by captain Pat Cummins and coach Daniel Vettori as well and the freedom they gave the youngsters that made them play well.

“They keep it very simple, to be very honest. Like Pat [Cummins], he keeps it very simple, he knows if the player likes to attack from the beginning, he just backs it up. It’s not like if you go in there and get out trying to hit, it adds up any pressure. That’s the best part for any youngster. If you watched Aniket Verma playing his first game, at that moment he was not thinking about coming back not out. He just went for each and every ball, so that is the sort of confidence when you get from your support staff, or I would say captain, it makes a huge difference,” Ishan Kishan concluded.