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The Indian Premier League (IPL) means breaking records in every match. This time, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore have set several other records, including the world record for runs scored in two innings in a single match.
On Monday (April 15) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, Travis Head's storming century helped Hyderabad score the highest total of 287 runs in the history of the IPL. In reply, Bangalore stopped at 262 runs. Pat Cummins' team won the match by 25 runs.
549 runs were scored in two innings in this match. Which is recognized as the highest run in a T20 match. The previous record was also held by Hyderabad. 523 runs were scored in the match between Hyderabad and Mumbai in the current season. With this, five hundred runs were seen in the IPL match twice.
Against Hyderabad, Bangalore's four bowlers Rhys Topley (68), Yash Dayal (51), Locky Ferguson (52) and Vijay Kumar (64) each scored fifty-plus runs. This is the first time that four bowlers of the same team have scored more than fifty runs in a recognized T20I match.
The match saw a flood of sixes at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Both teams hit 38 sixes. Among them, Hyderabad hit 22 sixes in their innings, the highest in an IPL. Later Bangalore hit 16. It saw the T20 world record of 38 sixes.
A total of 43 were made in this match between the two teams. The total number of boundaries in the match is 81 (38 sixes, 43 fours). The Hyderabad-Bangalore match shared the record for highest boundary in T20. The same number of boundaries were scored in West Indies and South Africa matches last year.
Out of 549 runs in two innings on this day, 400 runs came from the boundary. This is the first time a T20 match has seen four hundred runs in four sixes. The previous record was 394 runs between West Indies and South Africa.
