Many a record was broken during the IPL 2024 match between Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Mumbai Indians (MI) in Hyderabad.
The scoreline of the IPL clash on March 27, 2024 – Sunrisers Hyderabad 277-3, Mumbai Indians 246-5 – bears a 1990s ODI look, until you look at the format and balls faced. The numbers boggle the mind despite the absurd run-scoring, particularly six-hitting, of the modern era.
The records began when the teams swapped the team sheets. At 17 years 354 days, South African Kwena Maphaka became the youngest non-Asian to play in the IPL. Among overseas cricketers, only Mujeeb Ur Rahman (17 years 11 days) and Sandeep Lamichhane (17 years 283 days) have played at a younger age. He also became the second-youngest fast bowler in the IPL, after Pradeep Sangwan (17 years 179 days).
It was not a memorable debut. Maphaka returned figures of 4-0-66-0, the joint third-most in an IPL match (after Basil Thampi’s 4-0-70-0 against Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2018 and Yash Dayal’s 4-0-69-0 against Kolkata Knight Riders in 2023).
Travis Head began the carnage, slamming the fastest IPL fifty for Sunrisers Hyderabad, off 18 balls. Abhishek Sharma usurped the record soon afterwards, reaching the landmark off 16 balls. The record for all teams in the history of the league still lies with Yashasvi Jaiswal (13 balls).
Sunrisers kept smashing records on their way. They were 117 after eight overs, 128 after nine, 148 after 10, 161 after 11, and 173 after 12: each of these was the most runs by any team in the IPL at the respective points of time.
Hyderabad amassed 277-3, setting a new record for the highest team total – not only in the IPL but in all domestic T20s. The previous IPL record was Royal Challenger Bangalore’s (now Bengaluru) 263-5 in 2013, while in any franchise cricket, Melbourne Stars’ 273-2 in 2021/22 used to be the best.
This is the fourth-highest total in all T20 cricket, after Nepal’s 314-3 against Mongolia in 2023, Afghanistan’s 278-3 against Ireland in 2019, and Czech Republic’s 278-4 against Turkey in 2019.
SRH had never hit more than 13 sixes in an innings. In their first match of 2024 against the Kolkata Knight Riders, they hit 15, and against MI, they improved on that with 18. Mumbai Indians responded with 20 sixes, the joint second-most in IPL history, after RCB’s 21 when they had amassed 263-5. RCB had also hit 20 in 2016 while Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals) had done so in 2017, both against the now-defunct Gujarat Lions.
That took the tally in the SRH-MI clash to 38 – a new record for most sixes in a T20. The previous record was 37 (Balkh Legends 23, Kabul Zwanan 14 in Afghan Premier League 2018/19; Jamaica Tallawahs 21, St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 16 in CPL 2019). The previous IPL record was 33 in three different matches, in 2018, 2020, and 2023.
Mumbai Indians responded with 246-5, the highest total by any team batting second in the IPL. The world record is still South Africa’s 259-4 when they beat the West Indies in 2023 with seven balls to spare.
This was also the highest total by any team in a defeat in the IPL. The world record is from PSL 2023, when Quetta Gladiators made 253-8 after Multan Sultans amassed 262-3.
