Sunrisers Hyderabad shocked Mumbai Indians on Wednesday as they smashed their highest-ever score of 277 for three in the IPL. Travis Head (62 off 24) and Abhishek Sharma (63 off 23) put on a sensational power-hitting performance, the latter of which The team record for fastest 50 mph was snatched away from the Australians within minutes. Heinrich Klaasen (80 not out off 34 balls) finally provided a spark for SRH, helping them break their 11-year-old record. The previous highest total in IPL was 263 runs scored in five games by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2013.
Head and Sharma were in the thick of the action throughout the innings, trying to stop the Mumbai Indians attack.
Hyde was surprisingly left out of the opening eleven but cemented his status as one of the most dangerous batsmen in the game with his whirlwind strike.
He surpassed David Warner’s record of fastest fifty by an SRH batsman with 18 balls later, while Sharma surpassed Head 16 balls later record of 20 goals.
Head was bowled early in the innings by compatriot Tim David, who opened his front leg to hit a boundary at will, scoring nine fours and three sixes in total.
The left-hander completed his fifty with an inside-out four over mid-off before sending out Gerald Coetzee’s bouncer for six deep into mid-off to prompt the opposition Captain Hardik Pandya admitted the Australians’ brutal attack.
After Head’s departure, Sharma went all out and hit seven sixes and three boundaries, mainly targeting the horns.
It has been a nightmare start to the IPL for 17-year-old South African pacer Kwena Maphaka, who was named in the Mumbai Indians squad after a stellar performance in the U-19 World Cup.
He missed as many as 66 runs in four overs. The left-arm pacer failed to recover from Head’s onslaught in the second game, conceding 22 runs.
With most of the Mumbai bowlers being sent to the washout, it was surprising that Mumbai Indians skipper Pandya waited until the 13th over to give Jasprit Bumrah his second try .
After Sharma was dismissed, an in-form Klassen ensured that SRH’s six-wicket spree did not stop. Klassen ended up hitting seven sixes, with a Bumrah bouncer coming to the fore.
Klaasen’s stunning strike against KKR at the Eden Gardens almost saw SRH cross the finish line.
Former captain Aiden Markram scored 42 off 28 balls.
However, SunRisers Hyderabad’s 277/3 was not the highest score in the shortest format.
Highest overall team score in the format (T20I and T20 combined)
1. Nepal 314/3 vs Mongolia, 2023
2. Afghanistan 278/3 vs Ireland, 2019
3. Czech Republic 278/4 vs Türkiye, 2019
4. SunRisers Hyderabad 277/3 vs Mumbai Indians, 2024
5. Punjab 275/6 VS Andhra Pradesh, 2023
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