Star South African wicketkeeper-batter Heinrich Klaasen on Sunday (March 30) joined former Australian opening batter David Warner in an elite list of batters. He scored 32 runs from 19 balls for the Pat Cummins-led side against Delhi Capitals in the IPL 2025 match currently underway at YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. During his stay at the crease, he hit two fours and two sixes. Follow DC vs SRH Live Score During his 32-run knock with the bat, he became the seventh batter to score 1000 runs in the IPL for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Most runs in IPL for SRH David Warner – 4014 Shikhar Dhawan – 2518 Kane Williamson – 2101 Manish Pandey – 1345 Abhishek Sharma – 1345 Jonny Bairstow – 1038 Heinrich Klaasen – 1019 Klaasen, who was retained for Rs 23 crore by the Hyderabad-based franchise ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction, crossed the 1000-run mark for the 2016 champions in his 31st match. He needed 13 runs in the match against DC to join the 1000-run club, and he achieved the objective by smashing Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel for a four on the third ball of the sixth over. Klaseen made his IPL debut for SRH against Punjab Kings in Hyderabad on April 9, 2023, and amassed a total of 448 runs in the 12 matches of IPL 2023. In 2024, he played 16 matches for the franchise and scored 479 runs. The record of scoring most runs in the IPL for SRH is held by David Warner. The former left-handed batter who went unsold in the IPL 2025 mega auction played 95 matches and, with the help of two centuries and 40 fifties, scored 4014 runs. He is followed by Shikhar Dhawan (2518 runs in 85 matches), Kane Williamson (2101 runs in 76 matches), Manish Pandey (1345 runs in 51 matches), Abhishek Sharma (1345 runs in 63 matches) and Jonny Bairstow (1038 runs in 28 matches). In three matches of IPL 2025, Klaasen has scored 91 runs for SRH. He hammered 34 runs from just 14 balls against Rajasthan Royals at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on March 23, and in the second match played against LSG at the same venue on March 27, he scored 26 from 17 balls as a No. 5 batter. Stay updated with all the latest news on IPL 2025, including the schedule, points table, top run-scorers (IPL Orange Cap), and leading wicket-takers (IPL Purple Cap). Get real-time updates, match highlights, and expert insights—only on News18.