4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 6: Jake Fraser-McGurk goes on a rampage against Indian stars to slam IPL’s fastest 50s of 2024 | Cricket News

It was an absolute run-fest in Delhi on Saturday as SunRisers Hyderabad crossed the 250-run mark for the third time in IPL 2024. Aided by strong batting from Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma and Shahbaz Ahmed, SRH posted a formidable total of 267/6 in 20 overs. However, DC put up a strong fight, led by youngster Jack Fraser-McGurk. He went all out and scored 15 goals with a half-century, which was the best in this season’s IPL 2024. It was the joint third-fastest fifty-mile run in championship history. This is also the fastest half-century by a DC batsman in the IPL.

Fraser-McGurk’s innings included seven sixes and five fours as he finished with 65 off just 18 balls. However, he had his most brutal performance in the third game against SRH Washington Sundar, scoring 30 runs. Fraser-McGurk hit 4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 6 and DC were in pursuit.

Earlier, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) opening pair of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma continued in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 Rampage, setting the highest power play total in tournament history and rewriting other records.

DC’s return to their home ground, the Arun Jaitley Stadium, was anything but sweet and memorable for all the wrong reasons. Right from the first ball, opener Abhishek hit fours and sixes left and right, no matter who the bowler was. The Australia-India duo set the stage for another big game after beating Mumbai Indians (MI) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) with 250-plus-run totals of 277 and 287 respectively to become the highest scorers in IPL history. foundation. Fraction. SRH ended with 266/7 in 20 overs.

Head and Abhishek scored 125 runs in just 6 powerplay overs, which is the highest powerplay total in IPL history. They 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 ended the powerplay with 84 runs off just 26 balls, becoming SRH’s highest powerplay score by a single player in the IPL, surpassing David Warner’s against KKR in Hyderabad in 2019 23 goals and 62 points.

Travis completed his half-century in just 16 balls, tying him with Abhishek Sharma’s 16-ball fifty against MI this season to become SRH’s most in IPL history. Fast 50 balls. Rajasthan Royals (RR) batsman Abhishek Jaiswal’s 13-ball fifty is the fastest in IPL history.

Head also reached his third fifty in the powerplay. David Warner has repeated the feat six times in the IPL, while Chris Gayle and Sunil Narine have also repeated it thrice.

SRH reached the 100-run mark in just 5 overs with Abhishek scoring a huge 6 runs. This is the fastest century in the history of IPL, surpassing the feat achieved by Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in IPL 2014 when they reached the 100-run mark in just 6 games against Kings XI Punjab (PBKS).

At the end of 10 overs, SRH was 158/4. Although Delhi spinners Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav made a comeback with some quick wickets, they could not prevent SRH from posting the biggest total in IPL history after 10 overs, surpassing Not long ago SRH scored 148/2 against Mumbai Indians.

SRH reached the 200-run mark in 14.5 overs, making them the third fastest team to reach 200 runs in the IPL. The fastest instance is that of RCB, who reached the 200-run mark in 14.1 overs of 15 overs against Punjab in 2016. The fastest instance of a team reaching 200 runs in 20 overs of IPL also belongs to SRH, who did it with a win rate of 14.4 against MI this season.

This is the third time SRH has scored more than 250 runs in T20 cricket, joining Surrey as the team to score more than 250 runs in T20 cricket. A total of 22 sixes were hit in the innings, which became the joint record for most sixes in an IPL innings and equaled SRH’s record of 22 sixes set recently against RCB this season.

SRH’s score of 266 ranks them fourth in the IPL. The Orange also have the highest ever score total, with 287/3 against RCB this season.

In six games, Hyde has scored 324 points with an average of 54.00 and a field goal percentage of 216.00. He has scored two hundred and twenty fifties with a best score of 102. He is the second-highest 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 five runs. His best score is 63 points. He is the 10th highest run scorer so far.

When the game started, SRH was batted first by DC. Hyde (89 off 32 balls with 11 fours and 6 sixes) and Abhishek (46 off 12 balls with 2 fours and 6 sixes) played in 6.2 overs An explosive performance of 131 points. Subsequently, the contributions of Shahbaz Ahmed (59* off 29 balls, including 2 fours and 5 sixes) and Nitish Kumar (37 off 27 balls, including 2 fours and 2 sixes) It came in handy, raising SRH’s win rate to 266/7 in 20 overs.

Kuldeep Yadav was DC’s bowler with figures of 4/55. Mukesh Kumar and Axar Patel also scored six runs.

With ANI input