How a random wake-up thought spurred Abhishek

It was a 'random' thought Abhishek Sharma wrote in his diary that led him to smash the highest individual score by an Indian in the IPL.

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HYDERABAD: It was a 'random' thought Abhishek Sharma wrote in his diary that led him to smash the highest individual score by an Indian in the IPL.

Sharma raised the power-hitting bar with a sensational 141 off 55 balls as Sunrisers Hyderabad made short work of the 246-run target set by Punjab Kings to end their four-match losing streak on Saturday.

But to his own admission, Sharma too was under pressure to perform after a string of failures and he overcame a bout of sickness to play one of the most memorable knocks in the IPL.

Sharma was running a high fever for the majority of the six-day break that SRH got ahead of the home game, but he woke up on Saturday envisioning a match-winning contribution.