2024-04-28 15:54:50
The pitches of this year’s IPL are like gods to the bowlers. Dedarse is running in one match after another. The batters are storming. The bowlers have nothing to do but look helpless. It was seen once again in the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad yesterday. There are some records in such matches.
Punjab passed the mountain of 261 runs bowled by Kolkata in the match with 8 balls and 8 wickets in hand. Which is the highest run chase record in the history of all forms of T20 cricket. The record was previously held by South Africa. In 2023, South Africa won a great victory chasing West Indies’ 258 runs.
A total of 42 sixes were hit in the match. This is the record for the highest number of sixes in a T20I match. Earlier, 38 sixes were hit in the match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians in the current season.
In this match, both openers of Kolkata and Punjab have seen fifties. Among them, Punjab’s Jonny Bairstow picked up a century. This is the first time in the history of IPL that all 4 openers of the two teams have scored fifty innings.
Both teams scored 523 runs. It is joint second in the list of most runs in a match in T20 history. There have been equal runs in this season’s matches between Hyderabad and Mumbai. The match between Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore is the highest with 549 runs.
Punjab scored 93 runs from the powerplay, the highest in IPL history. In total, 250 or more runs have been scored 9 times in the history of IPL, 5 times in this season.