SunRisers Hyderabad star Heinrich Klassen recorded history during the clash against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Friday, May 22. The wicketkeeper batter who was already having a remarkable season, became the first overseas batter to register double-digit scores in all 14 league stage games of a single IPL season. He achieved the feat throughout the IPL 2026 season for the SunRisers Hyderabad.

In the clash against the Royal Challengers, he walked in while the side needed 45 runs to breach the 600-run mark in the season. While doing so, he achieved something that only one player in the history of T20 cricket had ever managed before. He became the only second batter to surpass the mark in a single T20 series while batting at number four or lower in the order. Earlier, Rishabh Pant had achieved the feat as he accumulated 684 runs for Delhi Capitals in IPL 2018.

Heinrich Klassen scored 2,000 career runs for SunRisers Hyderabad

As the Orange Army recorded a massive 55-run win over the defending champions, the former Proteas batter recorded another remarkable milestone. Klassen crossed the 2,000 career run mark for the Hyderabad-based franchise in the IPL. He now stands at 2,020 runs from 56 games at an average of 45.90 with 13 fifties and two hundreds to his name for the team. According to ESPNcricinfo, Klassen is the only fifth batter in the history of the team to reach the 2,000-run landmark for the franchise.

With this, he has joined names such as David Warner (4,014), followed by Shikhar Dhawan with 2,518, Abhishek Sharma with 2,316, and Kane Williams with 2,101 runs. On Friday, Klassen produced 51 runs off 24 balls, studded with two boundaries and five sixes. Not only this, but he also formed a third-wicket partnership of 113 runs off only 48 balls alongside Ishan Kishan.