SunRisers Hyderabad have scripted history once again. After setting the record for the highest team total in the 17-year-old history of IPL against Mumbai Indians, the SunRisers Hyderabad broke their own record at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Monday. In a match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, SunRisers Hyderabad scored 287/3 in 20 overs – which is the highest ever score in T20 franchise cricket. This IPL has now seen the top three highest scores in the history of the tournament.
Highest team totals in the IPL
287/3, SRH vs RCB, Bengaluru 2024
277/3 – SRH vs MI, Hyderabad, 2024
272/7 – KKR vs DC, Vizag, 2024
263/5 – RCB vs PWI, Bengaluru, 2013
257/5 – LSG vs PBKS, Mohali, 2023
248/3 – RCB vs GL, Bengaluru, 2016
246/5 – CSK vs RR, Chennai, 2010
SRH’s Travis Head came out all guns blazing as he scored his first IPL ton in just 39 deliveries – the fourth fastest century in the league.
On a M Chinnaswamy pitch, that looked like a batting paradise, Sunrisers Hyderabad openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma went on the charge. With Maxwell missing from their squad, RCB gave the new ball to offspinner Will Jacks to try and take it away from the left-handers, who bowled a decent over for RCB.
Reece Topley, bowling the second over of Power-play, was taken down for 20 runs. Head started with a boundary, maximum, and then Abhishek ended the over with a maximum. The fifth over of the day was bowled by Lockie Ferguson and his second and third balls were both dispatched for sixes by Head; the first a clip over square leg, and the next a swat over midwicket. Head ended the over with a four by going over mid-off.
Yash Dayal concluded the Power-play with another 20-run over, and Head flew his way to a 20-ball fifty including three fours and five sixes. SRH were 76 without loss after six overs.
Abhishek Sharma departed after scoring 34 off 22 deliveries failing to put the leg-side delivery of Topley over the boundary. Both the batters added 108 runs in mere deliveries for the visitors. Head on the other hand slammed the fastest century for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 39 deliveries, beaking David Warner’s previous record of 43 deliveries.
Opening the batting for Hyderabad, Head went off to absolute carnage and reached a century in 39 deliveries with the help of nine fours and eight sixes. It was also his maiden IPL century. However, he departed after scoring 102 off 41 deliveries on Ferguson’s bowling. Ferguson went for a knuckleball on the third ball of the 13th over, and Head sent it straight into the air.
This was the fourth fastest century in the history of the IPL only behind Chris Gayle, Yusuf Pathan, and David Miller. Head broke the record of his countrymate, David Warner, who smashed a 43 deliveries century against Kolkata Knight Riders back in 2017.
SRH were 171/2 after 13 overs as Aiden Markram joined his South Africa team-mate Klaasen in the middle.
RCB entered this match without a single specialist spinner. They went for the off-spin of Will Jacks, who was taken for 32 in his three overs. RCB’s pace bowlers Topley, Dayal, Ferguson, and Vyshak were belted for 137 off ten overs. Mahipal Lomror, bowling the 14th over, was smashed for 18 runs as SRH reached 189 for 2.
The 15th over ended with Heinrich Klaasen clubbing a six over the bowler Vijaykumar Vyshak’s head, capitalising on a low full toss to send it bang into the sightscreen, reaching his half-century in just 23 balls.
With IANS inputs
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