IPL 2024, SRH vs MI: Sunrisers Hyderabad Break RCB's Record for Highest Total, Post 277/3 vs Mumbai Indians

Sunrisers Hyderabad shattered the record for the highest total in the Indian Premier League (IPL) as they posted 277/2 from their 20 overs against Mumbai Indians at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

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Travis Head, playing his first IPL game this season, blasted a 24-ball 62, while Abhishek Sharma slammed 63 off 23 to lay the foundation.

Heinrich Klassen (80) and Aiden Markram (42) provided the late charge to take the hosts past the 250-mark.

SRH trumped the record for the highest IPL total held by Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Bangalore then) of 263 that they managed against now-defunct Pune Warriors India in 2013, when Chris Gayle scored an unbeaten 175 – the highest individual score.

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SRH lost Mayank Agarwal when he top-edged a pull to mid-on off Hardik Pandya. But Head was stirring up carnage from the other end – getting off the mark with a cracking drive off the teenaged debutant pacer Kwena Maphaka and being dropped by Tim David on five at mid-off.

Head turned the heat on Maphaka in a 22-run third over, smacking two sixes and two overs, with a 98m clubbed six over deep mid-wicket being the standout. After Hardik took out Mayank, Head teared into him by hitting three stunning fours to take 13 runs off the over.

After Jasprit Bumrah gave away only five runs in his first over, Head hit two fours – second of which got him his 18-ball fifty and as many sixes after Abhishek Sharma hit a maximum to take 23 runs off Gerald Coetzee, as SRH made 81/1 in six overs, the best-ever power-play score for the franchise in their history of IPL.

Thanks to Head’s 62 off 24 balls, before being dismissed while trying to upper cut off Coetzee, SRH brought up their 100 in just the seventh over. If MI felt they would some respite, they were mistaken as Abhishek stepped up to continue raining boundaries at the Uppal.

Abhishek carted Piyush Chawla for three humungous sixes, before taking back-to-back boundaries off Coetzee. He added more misery to Maphaka’s tough night by two fours and as many sixes to get his fifty off just 16 deliveries – overtaking his team-mate Head’s record of the fastest-ever fifty of the competition and by an SRH batter set 20 deliveries ago.

Chawla was carted for another six, before the leg-spinner took Abhishek out with a short ball which he pulled straight to deep mid-wicket. Klassen joined the powerful boundary-hitting party by launching a six each off Hardik, Bumrah and Shams Mulani.

He then took a four and six off Maphaka, who finished with 0/66 in four overs, the most expensive spell by a debutant in the IPL, before launching Coetzee for a six over long-off fence and then take a brace to get his fifty in 23 balls.

Klassen brought up SRH’s 250 by smacking a Bumrah full-toss over the non-striker for four and drove the pacer for another boundary. He went on to smash a four and two sixes off Shams Mulani in the final over to set a new record for the highest-ever score in the IPL.

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For MI, their bowlers bowled too many short balls and their bowling changes didn’t make for the smartest moves in the face of a never-ending onslaught from the trio of Head, Abhishek and Klassen. Moreover, they conceded a lot of extras and fielding wasn’t up to the mark in what is already turning out to be a forgettable match for them.

It was a nightmare for the MI bowlers as all of them, barring Jasprit Bumrah (0/36), ended up leaking more than 10 runs per over.

(With inputs from Agencies)