On the eve of their sport towards the Delhi Capitals, Travis Head had opened up about Sunrisers Hyderabad’s batting technique within the ongoing season that’s helped them submit the 2 highest scores within the league’s historical past.
“It’s not going to work each sport. However I can inform you, everybody’s afraid of once they come up towards us and we’ve received to blow some groups out of the water earlier than they’ve even walked out on the sphere,” Head had said. On Saturday, Delhi was on the receiving finish of Head and Abhishek Sharma’s wrath because the duo mixed so as to add 125 runs within the powerplay for Delhi, the best within the historical past of the league.
The earlier file was held by the Kolkata Knight Riders, who had collected 105 runs with out the lack of a wicket towards the Royal Challengers Bengaluru within the 2017 season.
Listed below are the highest 5 highest powerplay scores in IPL historical past:
| Group | Powerplay Rating | Opposition | 12 months | Venue |
| SRH | 125/0 | DC | 2024 | Delhi |
| KKR | 105/0 | RCB | 2017 | Bengaluru |
| CSK | 100/2 | PBKS | 2014 | Mumbai |
| CSK | 90/0 | MI | 2015 | Mumbai |
| KKR | 88/1 | DC | 2024 | Visakhapatnam |
Batting first on the Arun Jaitley Stadium, SRH cross the 100 run mark off simply 5 overs, which was additionally the quickest any crew had received to it in T20 historical past. It was South Africa’s males’s nationwide crew who held the earlier file – having crossed the triple digit mark inside 5.3 overs final yr towards the West Indies.
Off the 36 deliveries within the powerplay, 24 ended up as boundaries – 13 fours and 11 sixes.
Whereas Head – contemporary off his hundred towards RCB – introduced up his half-century off simply 16 balls, Abhishek Sharma scored 46 off 12 deliveries earlier than Kuldeep Yadav received rid off him within the seventh over.
Of their earlier outing, SRH had blasted 287 runs towards RCB, which is to this point the highest-total in IPL. By no means in franchise cricket’s historical past has a crew scored 300 runs. It has occurred solely as soon as in all of T20s, when Nepal scored 314 towards Mongolia on the Hangzhou Video games final yr in September.
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