A flood of runs created a record in the eighth league match of IPL 2024 between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians on Wednesday. A very old record has been broken. This match has created many records that have not been seen before in any IPL or men’s T20 cricket.
Sunrisers Hyderabad batted first to build a mountain of runs. Apart from the IPL, no such feat has ever happened before in any men’s T20 cricket. Hyderabad created history by scoring 277 for 3 in 20 overs.
This is the highest score by any team in ipl history so far. Earlier, RCB had scored 263 for five against Pune Warriors in 2013.
Sunrisers Hyderabad destroy RCB’s 11-year record. There was a flood of sixers in this high scoring match. Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians (SRH vs MI), who are the highest-ranked in men’s T20 cricket, have a total of 38 sixes.
Earlier in April 2018, 37 sixes were scored in a match between Balkh Legends and Kabul Jhwanan. Talking about men’s T20 International cricket, 35 sixes were smashed in the South Africa vs West Indies match in 2023.
In the history of IPL, 38 sixes have not been scored in a single match so far. Earlier in 2018, 2020 and 2023, a similar number of 33 sixes were scored in matches played between three teams. In the match played between RCB and CSK in Bengaluru, 33 sixes were smashed from both teams in the match played between RR vs CSK in Sharjah.
A total of 523 runs were scored in the Hyderabad vs Mumbai match, which is the highest score in the history of IPL. Earlier in the match played between CSK and RR in 2010, the batsmen scored 459 runs in the match played between Punjab Kings and KKR in 2018.
Last year, he scored 458 runs in the Punjab Kings vs LSG match in 2020 while 453 runs were scored in the MI vs PBKS match held in Mumbai in 2019.
South Africa vs West Indies break one-year record. This is the highest run score in men’s T20 cricket so far. Earlier, 517 runs were scored in the South Africa vs West Indies match. This record was made in Centurion in 2023. In 2023, 515 runs were scored in the match between Quetta Gladiators vs Multan Sultans in the PSL itself.