Hyderabad beat Kohli’s Bangalore in a run-flooding match
A few days ago, Sunrisers Hyderabad set a team run record in IPL history. They have broken their own record and made a new one. Travis Head’s century with the contribution of the rest helped Hyderabad build a mountain collection of 287 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Royal Challengers Bangalore fought without giving up in pursuit of the target. Dinesh Karthik’s stormy batting also led them to a mountain of runs. The two teams have set several records together. In the end, Hyderabad won the blockbuster match.
Bengaluru’s home ground M. Hyderabad won by 25 runs at Chinnaswamy Stadium today. Batting first, they made an incredible collection of 287 runs for 3 wickets. Which is recognized as the second highest collection in T20I. Earlier in the Asian Games, Nepal scored 314 runs for 3 wickets. However, Hyderabad’s runs are the highest in franchise cricket.
4 of the top five team collections in the history of IPL have taken place this season. Of these, two records have been made today. Chasing the target thrown by Hyderabad, Bengaluru can score 262 runs for 7 wickets. The highest total of any team’s run chase in the IPL.
The two teams scored 549 runs together, which is the highest in IPL recognized T20. Moreover, the record of most sixes (38) and fours (43) in one match in IPL has also been made today. A total of 81 fours and sixes. Earlier in 2023 Centurion had equal boundary in South Africa and Windies match.
Bengaluru started the fight with the bat of the two openers Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis chasing the target. 80 runs came in the pair of the two. This pair broke when Kohli returned with 42 runs off 20 balls. After that blow, Bengaluru lost 4 more wickets to score 122 runs.
In the tenth over, Bengaluru were all but knocked out of the match. But after that, Karthik became the light of hope for Bengaluru. He started to make the team dream of victory almost single-handedly. He picked up a fifty off just 23 balls. Mohipal Lomror accompanied him first by scoring 19 runs off 11 balls.
The way Karthik was batting, the match started tilting towards Bengaluru at one point. But as the target was too high, it was no longer possible. They needed 58 runs off the last 12 balls. Karthik scored 14 runs off the first 4 balls of the 19th over. But he departed after giving up the glass on the fifth ball.
Karthik scored 83 runs off just 35 balls. Which is arranged in 5 fours and 7 sixes. Even Anuj Raut scored 20 runs in 4 fours in the last over. But they remained 25 runs behind from victory.
Earlier, the Bangalore bowlers were beaten by the Hyderabad openers from the start. Travis Head was in absolutely devastating form. He formed an opening partnership of 108 runs with Abhishek Sharma.
Abhishek went back to 34 runs but Head continued to rampage. He touched the century in just 39 balls. Which is the fourth fastest in IPL history. After the century, however, this Aussie opener took only two balls. But set the tone for the rest of the batters to have a devastating start. He returned to the dressing room with 102 runs off 41 balls with 9 fours and 8 sixes.
The storm in Hyderabad is still unstoppable. Heinrich Klaasen sat in the place of the head and started beating the Bengaluru bowlers. This Protea batsman who was in terrible form against Mumbai that day still rained sixes. Played a devastating innings of 67 runs in 31 balls with 2 fours and 7 sixes.
There were still three overs left in the innings when Klaassen got out. Aiden Markram and Abdul Samad scored 56 runs in those three overs. Markram scored 32 off 17 balls with 2 fours and 2 sixes and Samad remained unbeaten on 37 runs off 10 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes.
In total, Hyderabad batsmen hit 22 sixes in this innings. Which is the record of the highest number of sixes in an innings in T20 history. Earlier, Bengaluru hit 21 sixes against Pune Warriors India at the same ground.
Hyderabad finally broke their own record set 19 days ago by rampaging on the opponent bowlers. They scored 277 runs against Mumbai Indians, the team’s highest total in IPL. It broke Bangalore’s record that had stood for 11 years. Hyderabad broke their own record today.
Four Bengaluru bowlers have spent more than 50 runs with the ball. In short, Bengaluru’s home ground was a bowler’s slaughterhouse today. Hyderabad’s bowlers were evenly matched. But Bhuvneshwar Kumar got 4 wickets despite spending 60 runs.
In this victory, Hyderabad has 8 points in 6 matches. Which brought them up to fourth in the points table. Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings who are second and third also have 8 points. But they are ahead in net run rate. And Kolkata played 5 matches. At the top, Rajasthan Royals collected 10 points from 6 matches.
