It was an absolute run-fest in Delhi on Saturday as SunRisers Hyderabad went previous 250 for the third time within the IPL 2024. With the assistance of some large hitting from Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma and Shahbaz Ahmed, SRH put up an intimidating complete of 267/6 in 20 overs. Nonetheless, DC put up a robust combat with teen Jake Fraser-McGurk taking a number one function. He got here out all weapons blazing scoring a 15-ball half century, the fasted in IPL 2024 this season. It is the joint third-fastest fifty within the historical past of the event. That is additionally the quickest half-century by a DC batter in IPL.
Fraser-McGurk’s innings included seven sixes and 5 fours as he ended on 65 off simply 18 balls. Nonetheless, he was most brutal towards SRH Washington Sundar within the third over which went for 30 runs. Fraser-McGurk hit 4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 6 as DC cruised in chase.
Earlier, The Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) opening pair of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma continued their rampage through the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, posting the best powerplay complete within the historical past of the competitors and rewriting different document books as nicely.
DC’s return to their house area, Arun Jaitley Stadium, was by no means candy and was memorable for all of the fallacious causes. Proper from ball one, opener Head-Abhishek smashed fours and sixes left and proper, no matter the bowler. After demolishing Mumbai Indians (MI) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) with 250-plus totals of 277 and 287 runs respectively, which went on to turn into the best rating in IPL historical past, the Aussie-Indian pair laid down basis for one more massive rating. SRH ended with 266/7 of their 20 overs.
Head and Abhishek amassed 125 runs in simply six overs of their powerplay, the highest-ever powerplay complete in IPL historical past. They broke the document of 105/0 put up by the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) towards RCB within the IPL 2017. That is additionally the best powerplay rating within the historical past of T20 cricket.
Travis ended the powerplay at 84 in simply 26 balls, making it the best powerplay rating for SRH within the IPL by a single participant, outdoing David Warner‘s 62 in 23 balls towards KKR in Hyderabad again in 2019.
Travis reached his half-century in simply 16 balls, tying with Abhishek Sharma’s 16-ball fifty towards MI on this season for the quickest fifty in IPL historical past for SRH. Rajasthan Royals (RR) batter Abhishek Jaiswal has a 13-ball fifty, the quickest ever within the IPL.
Head additionally reached his fifty for the third time season throughout the powerplay itself. David Warner has repeated this feat six instances in IPL, whereas Chris Gayle and Sunil Narine have carried out so thrice as nicely.
SRH reached the 100-run mark in simply 5 overs with an enormous six from Abhishek. That is the quickest workforce hundred within the historical past of the IPL, outdoing the feat by the Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK) reaching the 100-run mark in simply six overs towards Punjab Kings (PBKS) within the IPL 2014.
On the finish of 10 overs, SRH was 158/4. Even though Delhi spinners Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav made a comeback with some fast wickets, they might not cease SRH from posting the most important complete in IPL historical past after 10 overs, outdoing SRH’s 148/2 towards Mumbai Indians made not so way back.
SRH reached their 200-run mark in 14.5 overs, making it the third quickest occasion of a workforce reaching 200 runs within the IPL. The quickest occasion was by RCB, who reached the 200-run mark in 14.1 overs throughout a 15-over sport towards Punjab in 2016. The quickest occasion of a workforce reaching 200 runs in an IPL sport of 20 overs can be owned by SRH, who did so in 14.4 overs towards MI this season.
That is the third occasion of a 250-plus run rating by SRH in T20s, tying them with Surrey for probably the most 250-plus scores in T20 cricket. 22 sixes have been smashed on this innings, making it the joint most sixes in an IPL innings, equaling SRH’s document of twenty-two sixes towards RCB, which got here not too long ago on this season.
The 266-runs scored by SRH is the fourth-highest complete within the IPL. The Orange Military owns the best ever complete as nicely, scoring 287/3 towards RCB this season.
In six matches, Head has scored 324 runs at a mean of 54.00, with a strike fee of 216.00. He has scored a century and two fifties, with one of the best rating of 102. He’s the second-highest run-getter within the event thus far.
On the opposite finish, Abhishek has scored 257 runs in seven innings at a mean of 36.71 and a strike fee of 215.96, with a fifty. His finest rating is 63. He’s the Tenth-highest run-getter thus far.
Coming to the match, SRH was placed on discipline first by DC. Head (89 in 32 balls, with 11 fours and 6 sixes) and Abhishek (46 in 12 balls, with two fours and 6 sixes) placed on an explosive stand of 131 runs in 6.2 overs. Later, contributions from Shahbaz Ahmed (59* in 29 balls, with two fours and 5 sixes) and Nitish Kumar (37 in 27 balls, with two fours and two sixes) got here in useful to take SRH to 266/7 of their 20 overs.
Kuldeep Yadav was the decide of the bowlers for DC with 4/55. Mukesh Kumar and Axar Patel additionally acquired a six.
With ANI inputs
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