NEW DELHI: Sunrisers Hyderabad notched up a staggering whole of 287-3 earlier than clinching a 25-run victory over Royal Challengers Bengaluru on a Monday crammed with record-breaking performances, highlighted by Travis Head‘s century.
SRH, having been invited to bat first by hosts RCB, surpassed their earlier mark of 277 set final month, courtesy of Travis Head’s blazing 102 off simply 41 balls.Head reached his ton in 39 balls for the fourth-fastest hundred within the competitors as he set the tone for the assault.
Following Head’s departure, Heinrich Klaasen assumed management together with his brisk 31-ball 67. The South African displayed comparable aggression to Head, putting the ball to all corners of the bottom earlier than ultimately falling sufferer to Lockie Ferguson.
SRH, having been invited to bat first by hosts RCB, surpassed their earlier mark of 277 set final month, courtesy of Travis Head’s blazing 102 off simply 41 balls.Head reached his ton in 39 balls for the fourth-fastest hundred within the competitors as he set the tone for the assault.
Following Head’s departure, Heinrich Klaasen assumed management together with his brisk 31-ball 67. The South African displayed comparable aggression to Head, putting the ball to all corners of the bottom earlier than ultimately falling sufferer to Lockie Ferguson.
Fellow South African Aiden Markram (32) and Abdul Samad (37) then mixed forces to muster a formidable 59 runs off simply 19 balls, igniting a last storm.
Virat Kohli (42) and captain Faf du Plessis (62) supplied RCB with a scorching begin, laying the muse for his or her innings. Dinesh Karthik then unleashed a shocking assault, smashing 83 runs off simply 35 balls, propelling RCB to 262-7.
The match noticed quite a few information being made. Have a look:
- SRH’s whole of 287/3 not solely stands as the best in IPL historical past but additionally marks the best ever in franchise cricket.
- This stands because the second-highest whole ever recorded in T20 cricket, second solely to Nepal’s 314/3 towards Mongolia through the Hangzhou Asian Video games.
- RCB’s rating of 262/7 whereas chasing 287 stands as the best whole ever recorded by a group batting second within the IPL.
- The match produced the best mixture for a T20 sport with a tally of 549 runs. The earlier finest was 523 between SRH and Mumbai Indians.
- The match additionally equalled the report for probably the most boundaries hit in a T20 match, with a complete of 81 boundaries scored, together with 43 fours and 38 sixes.
- SRH hammered 22 sixes, marking probably the most ever in an IPL innings, surpassing RCB’s earlier report of 21 set towards Pune Warriors India in 2013.
- 4 RCB bowlers have conceded 50+ runs – there have by no means been greater than two bowlers doing the identical beforehand in an IPL innings. Reece Topley (1/68), Yash Dayal (0/51), Lockie Ferguson (2/52), Vijaykumar Vyshak (0/64)
