IPL PIX: SRH make history to thump MI by 31 runs

IMAGES from the IPL match played between SunRisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

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Sunrisers Hyderabad's players celebrate afer Pat Cummins dismissed Rohit Sharma.

IMAGE: Sunrisers Hyderabad's players celebrate afer Pat Cummins dismissed Rohit Sharma. Photograph: BCCI

Records tumbled as Sunrisers Hyderabad went on a rampage to post the highest ever IPL total of 277 for 3 against Mumbai Indians before sealing a 31-run victory in a power-hitting contest that left bowlers on
both sides befuddled.

SRH opener Travis Head (62 off 24) and number three Abhishek Sharma (63 off 23) came up with a sensational display of power-hitting that saw the latter snatching the franchise record for the fastest fifty from the Australian within minutes.

Heinrich Klaasen (80 not out off 34 balls) provided the fireworks in the end to help SRH break an 11-year-old record. The previous highest total in IPL was 263 for five achieved by Royal Challengers Bangalore back in 2013. It was also the highest total recorded in a T20 league.

Tilak Varma plays a shot.

IMAGE: Tilak Varma top-scored with 64. Photograph: BCCI

Mumbai bowlers were left shell-shocked by SRH's six-hitting spree but their batters came out with a purpose and made a match out of what looked like a one way traffic at the innings break.

Eventually, they ended at 246 for five in 20 overs.

A record 38 sixes were plundered in the game and it was the first time 500 runs were scored in a T20 match.

Hardik Pandya hits a six.

IMAGE: Hardik Pandya hits a six. Photograph: BCCI

"The wicket was good but 277, no matter how good or bad you bowl, if the opposition get 277 that means they batted very well. It was tough out there for bowlers. Close to 500 runs were scored so the wicket was helping the batters," MI skipper Hardik Pandya said after the match.

Chasing a mammoth 278, Rohit Sharma (26 off 12), in his 200th game for the franchise, played some sublime strokes and was well complemented by Ishan Kishan (34 off 13) who got some much needed runs.

Sunrisers Hyderabad players celebrates after captain Pat Cummins dismissed Tilak Varma.

IMAGE: Sunrisers Hyderabad players celebrates after captain Pat Cummins dismissed Tilak Varma. Photograph: BCCI

Tilak Varma (64 off 34 balls) took the game deep with a high-quality knock, comprising half a dozen sixes. At 182 for three in 14 overs and seven wickets in hand, Mumbai Indians were on course for something special before succumbing to constant scoreboard pressure.

Tim David (42 not out off 22) tried his best towards the end but it was not enough.

Sunrisers Hyderabad's players celebrate after Shahbaz Ahmed got the wicket of Ishan Kishan

IMAGE: Sunrisers Hyderabad's players celebrate after Shahbaz Ahmed got the wicket of Ishan Kishan. Photograph: BCCI

Jaydev Unadkat and Pat Cummins led Hyderabad bowling attack as they scalped two wickets each in their respective spells.

Shahbaz Ahmed picked up one wicket in his 3 over spell and helped the hosts clinch a 31-run win in the game.

Heinrich Klaasen hits a six.

IMAGE: Heinrich Klaasen hits a six. Photograph: BCCI

Earlier, records tumbled left-right and centre as Sunrisers Hyderabad smashed 277 for three, the highest total in IPL history, to leave Mumbai Indians shell shocked in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

Travis Head (62 off 24) and Abhishek Sharma (63 off 23) came up with a sensational display of power-hitting, that saw the latter snatching the franchise record for fastest fifty from the Australian within minutes.

Travis Head on the attack.

IMAGE: Travis Head on the attack. Photograph: BCCI

It was raining fours and sixes throughout the innings as Head and Sharma toyed with the Mumbai Indians attack.

Head, who was surprisingly left out of the playing eleven for the opening game, reinforced his status as one of the most dangerous batters in the game with a whirlwind effort.

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He broke David Warner's record of the fastest fifty by a SRH batter with a 18-ball half-century before Sharma surpassed Head's feat 20 balls later by reaching the milestone in 16 balls.

Travis Head celebrates on reaching his half-century off 18 balls

IMAGE: Travis Head celebrates on reaching his half-century off 18 balls. Photograph: BCCI

Head, who was dropped by compatriot Tim David at the start of his innings, opened his front leg and hit boundaries at will, collecting nine fours and three sixes in total.

The southpaw completed his fifty with an inside out four wide of mid-off before dispatching a bouncer from Gerald Coetzee for a six over deep midwicket, prompting opposition skipper Hardik Pandya to acknowledge the Australian's brutal assault.

Abhishek Sharma hits a six

IMAGE: Abhishek Sharma hits a six. Photograph: BCCI

When Head departed, Sharma went hammer and tongs, mostly targeting the cow corner region for his seven sixes and three boundaries.

Hardik Pandya talks to Kwena

IMAGE: Hardik Pandya talks to 17-year-old debutant Kwena Maphaka who was clobbered for runs. Photograph: BCCI

It was a nightmarish start to the IPL for the 17-year-old South African pacer Kwena Maphaka, who made the Mumbai Indians squad at the back of his exploits in the U-19 World Cup.

He leaked as many as 66 runs in his four overs. The left-arm pacer could not recover from Head's onslaught in his second over in which he conceded 22 runs.

Mumbai Indians players celebrates the wicket of Abhishek Sharma, who was dismissed by Piyush Chawla.

IMAGE: Mumbai Indians players celebrates the wicket of Abhishek Sharma, who was dismissed by Piyush Chawla. Photograph: BCCI

With the majority of the Mumbai bowlers taken to the cleaners, it was surprising that Mumbai Indians skipper Pandya waited till the 13th over to give Jasprit Bumrah his second over.

Following Sharma's dismissal, the in-form Klaasen ensured there was no stopping to the SRH's six hitting spree. Klaasen ended up with seven sixes with the maximum off a Bumrah bouncer standing out.

Aiden Markram plays the reverse sweep.