Sunrisers’ 287/3 Hyderabad has achieved the second-highest total in T20 cricket history, behind Nepal’s 314/3 versus Mongolia in Hangzhou during the 2023 Asian Games. Before RCB answered with 262/7 to make it six, this was the sixth 250+ total in IPL history; four of the six occurrences have occurred in the 2024 season alone. The highest total ever has already been surpassed twice this season, with the highest total from the beginning of the season (263/5, achieved by RCB against PWI in Bengaluru in 2013) presently sitting at fourth place.
549 meters The 549 runs total is the greatest in a Twenty20 match ever, breaking the previous record of 523 set in the Sunrisers vs. MI game earlier in the season. The successful chase of 259/4 by South Africa against the West Indies at Centurion in 2023 has been surpassed by the current best total by a team batting second in a Twenty20, which is 262/7 by RCB.
The two sides’ combined total of 38 sixes, which matches the number of sixes in the Sunrisers-MI game listed above, is the joint greatest in a T20 contest. Sunrisers’ 22 maximum hits in an IPL match have eclipsed the record held by RCB’s 11-year run of 21 hits against PWI in Bengaluru in 2013. The match’s 81 boundaries (43 fours and 38 sixes) are tied for the most in a Twenty20 tournament with the South Africa vs. West Indies encounter in Centurion in 2023.
Travis Head enjoys himself to the detriment of his former team.
Head’s 39 balls taken is the fastest for Sunrisers and surpasses David Warner’s 43 balls against KKR in Hyderabad in 2017. Head’s balls taken is the fourth fastest in the IPL. In 11.4 overs of the Sunrisers’ innings, Head scored three figures, which is the fourth-earliest in IPL history.
2. Following his 59 against MI earlier in the season, Head’s half-century inside the Powerplay this time became his second IPL half-century. David Warner was the only other hitter for the Sunrisers to accomplish this feat, having done so six times.
Along with Warner against KKR in 2017, Manish Pandey against RR in Dubai in 2020, and Heinrich Klaasen against KKR earlier this edition, Head has hit the most sixes of any Sunrisers hitter in the history of the IPL with eight.
Batters thrive, whereas bowlers are utterly useless
Four RCB bowlers let up fifty runs or more during the Sunrisers’ innings: Lockie Ferguson (2/52) Reece Topley (1/68), and Vijaykumar Vyshak (0/64). There has never before been an IPL match in which more than two bowlers gave up more than fifty runs in an innings, and this is the first time that four bowlers have done so in a T20 game.
The 68 runs that Topley hit in the IPL match is the third-highest after Basil Thampi’s 0/70 for Sunrisers against RCB at the same location in 2018 and Yash Dayal’s 0/69 for GT against KKR in Ahmedabad the previous year. The previous highest statistics for an overseas bowler were 66, shared by Kwena Maphaka and Mujeeb Zadran in their respective matches against the Sunrisers in Hyderabad in 2019 and 2024.
In this match, there were seven partnerships of 50 or more, which is higher than the previous record of five in a T20 match. Sunrisers’ innings featured four 50+ stands, which ties KKR’s four from the opening game at the same venue in 2008 for the most in an IPL innings.
With their joint-highest Powerplay total of 79/0 against Kochi Tuskers Kerala in Bengaluru in 2011, RCB matched the previous record. With three coming in this season alone, the Sunrisers’ sixth-best result was 76/0 against MI and 78/1 against CSK, both of whom they defeated in Hyderabad.
