Runs piled up in Delhi on Saturday as Sunrisers Hyderabad crossed 250 for the third time in IPL 2024. With the help of some tremendous hitting travis head, Abhishek Sharma And Shahbaz AhmedSRH made a dangerous score of 267/6 in 20 overs. However, DC put up a tough fight with the youngster Jake Fraser-McGurk Playing a leading role. He performed strongly by scoring a half-century in 15 balls, which was the fastest in IPL 2024 this season. This is the joint third fastest half-century in the history of the tournament.
Fraser-McGurk’s innings included seven sixes and five fours and he finished with 65 runs off just 18 balls. However, he was most brutal against SRH washington beautiful 30 runs were scored in the third over. Fraser-McGurk scored 4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 6 and DC was successful in the chase.
Earlier, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) opening pair of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma continued their dominance during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, scoring the highest powerplay score in the history of the competition and also creating other record books. Wrote again.
DC’s return to their home ground, the Arun Jaitley Stadium, was far from perfect and memorable for all the wrong reasons. From the very first ball, opener Abhishek hit fours and sixes left and right without caring about the bowler. After demolishing Mumbai Indians (MI) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 277 and 287 runs respectively with scores of over 250, which became the highest score in IPL history, the Australian-Indian pair posted another big total. laid the foundation. score. SRH finished with 266/7 in their 20 overs.
Head and Abhishek scored 125 runs in just six overs of their powerplay, which is the highest ever powerplay score in IPL history. He broke the record of 105/0 set by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) against RCB in IPL 2017. This is also the highest powerplay score in the history of T20 cricket.
Travis finished the powerplay with 84 runs off just 26 balls, making it the highest powerplay score by a single player for SRH in the IPL. david warnerScored 62 runs in 23 balls against KKR in Hyderabad in 2019.
Travis completed his half-century in just 16 balls, equaling Abhishek Sharma’s 16-ball half-century against MI as the fastest half-century in IPL history for SRH this season. Rajasthan Royals (RR) batsman Abhishek Jaiswal scored a half-century in 13 balls, which is the fastest half-century so far in the IPL.
Head completed his half-century for the third time in the season in the powerplay itself. David Warner has repeated this feat six times in IPL. chris gayle And Sunil Narine Have done this thrice also.
With the help of a long six from Abhishek, SRH reached the 100-run mark in just five overs. This is the fastest team century in the history of IPL, having crossed the 100-run mark in just six overs when Chennai Super Kings (CSK) scored against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in IPL 2014.
At the end of 10 overs, SRH’s score was 158/4. Despite the fact that the Delhi spinner Akshar Patel And -Kuldeep Yadav Bouncing back with some quick wickets, they could not stop SRH from scoring the highest score in IPL history after 10 overs, surpassing SRH’s recent total of 148/2 against Mumbai Indians.
SRH reached the 200-run mark in 14.5 overs, making it the third-fastest instance of a team reaching 200 runs in the IPL. The fastest example was of RCB, which reached the 200-run mark in 14.1 overs during a 15-over game against Punjab in 2016. SRH also has the fastest example of a team reaching 200 runs in a 20-over IPL game. Who did this in 14.4 overs against MI this season.
This is the third instance of SRH scoring 250-plus runs in T20s, tying it with Surrey for the most 250-plus scores in T20 cricket. 22 sixes were hit in this innings, making it a record for the joint-highest number of sixes hit in an IPL innings, equaling SRH’s record of 22 sixes against RCB recently this season.
266 runs scored by SRH is the fourth highest score in IPL. The Orange Army also holds the highest score so far this season by scoring 287/3 against RCB.
Head has scored 324 runs in six matches at an average of 54.00 and a strike rate of 216.00. He has scored one century and two half-centuries with a best score of 102. He is the second highest run scorer in the tournament so far.
Abhishek, on the other hand, has scored 257 runs in seven innings at an average of 36.71 and a strike rate of 215.96 with one half-century. His best score is 63. He is the 10th highest run scorer so far.
Talking about the match, DC fielded SRH first. Head (89 in 32 balls, with the help of 11 fours and six sixes) and Abhishek (46 in 12 balls, with the help of two fours and six sixes) made an explosive partnership of 131 runs in 6.2 overs. Later, contributions from Shahbaz Ahmed (59* in 29 balls, with two fours and five sixes) and Nitish Kumar (37 off 27 balls, with two fours and two sixes) came handy to take SRH to 266/7 in 20 overs.
Kuldeep Yadav was the best bowler for DC with 4 wickets for 55 runs. Mukesh Kumar And Akshar Patel also got a six.
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