IPL 2024 : Sunrisers Hyderabad’s record breaking win against Mumbai Indians
Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians in the eighth match of the Indian Premier League (IPL), where more than a dozen cricket records were broken. Hyderabad won by 31 runs at the Rajiv Gandhi Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad, India.
Chasing the huge target of 278 runs given by Hyderabad, Mumbai lost 5 wickets in the allotted 20 overs and ended up at 246 runs. Tilak Varma scored highest 64 runs for Mumbai. He played a half century innings of 64 runs with the help of 2 fours and 6 sixes in 33 balls.
Opener Ishan Kishan scored 33 runs off 13 balls with the help of 2 fours and 4 sixes. Rohit Sharma and Kishan shared 56 runs in 20 balls for the first wicket. Sharma scored 26 runs in 12 balls with the help of 1 four and 2 sixes.
Naman Dhir scored 30 runs in 14 balls with the help of 2 fours and 2 sixes. Tim David scored 42 unbeaten runs with the help of 2 fours and 3 sixes. Captain Hardik Pandya scored 24 runs in 20 balls with the help of 1 four and 1 six.
Captain Pat Cummins and Jaydev Unadkat took 2/2 wicket each and Shahbaz Ahmed took 1 wicket for Hyderabad.
Before that, the home team, who lost the toss and batted first, lost 3 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs and made an unbelievable total of 277 runs. This total is the biggest total in IPL history. Earlier in 2013, Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 263 runs in 20 overs against Pune Warriors. In that match, the former West Indies captain Chris Gayle played an innings of 175 runs alone. For the home team Hyderabad, 3 players Heinrich Klassen, Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head scored half centuries.
Sharma, who completed his half-century in 16 balls, scored 63 runs with the help of 3 fours and 7 sixes. Opener Head scored 62 runs off 24 balls with the help of 9 fours and 3 sixes. For the second wicket, Sharma and Head shared a brilliant partnership of 68 runs off 23 balls.
South Africa’s Klassen scored an unbeaten 80 off 34 balls with the help of 4 fours and 7 sixes. Similarly, Aiden Markram scored an unbeaten 42 runs off 28 balls with the help of 2 fours and 1 six. Klassen and Markram shared 116 runs partnership.
On the bowling side, except for Jasprit Bumrah, other bowlers for Mumbai had an economy of more than 10 runs.
Both teams hit 38 sixes and 31 fours in this match. In both innings, a total of 523 runs were scored in this match. This is also the highest number of runs scored in a single match in IPL history. Earlier in the year 2010, the record of 469 runs was held in the match between Chennai and Rajasthan.
With this win, Hyderabad, who won their first win in 2 matches, has climbed to the third place in the points table with 2 points. Mumbai is in ninth place without any points. Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Capitals match will be played today,
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