In IPL 2024, the match is currently being played between Lucknow Super Giants and Sunrisers Hyderabad. In this match, Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul won the toss and decided to bat first. In this match, Lucknow has given a target of 166 runs to Hyderabad to win. Ayush Badoni and Nicholas Puran have played brilliant innings for the team. A big record has been made in the LSG vs SRH match.
This miracle happened only on the third occasion
KL Rahul hit the first six for Lucknow against Sunrisers Hyderabad. After this, Krunal Pandya hit two sixes in the 8th over. With this, 1000 sixes have been completed in IPL 2024. This is only the third time in the history of IPL that more than 1000 sixes have been hit in an edition. Earlier, 1062 sixes were hit in IPL 2022 and 1124 sixes were hit in IPL 2023.
Fastest 1000 sixes hit in IPL
In terms of balls, the fastest 1000 sixes have been hit in the history of IPL. In IPL 2024, thousand sixes have been hit in only 13079 balls. Whereas in IPL 2023, 1000 sixes were hit in 15390 balls and in IPL 2022, 1000 sixes were hit in 16269 balls. In the current season, the batsmen have dominated and the fans have got to see big scores.
Fastest 1000 sixes in one edition of IPL
IPL 2024- 13079 balls
IPL 2024- 15390 balls
IPL 2024- 16269 balls
Lucknow had a bad start
Lucknow Super Giants had a very poor start against Sunrisers Hyderabad. When Quinton de Kock was out after scoring just two runs. After this Marcus Stoinis scored three runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar took the wickets of both these players. Due to this, Lucknow’s innings appeared to be faltering. But after this, Krunal Pandya and KL Rahul tried to stay on the wicket for some time. Rahul contributed 29 runs and Pandya contributed 24 runs. But these players could not play big innings. Cummins runs out Krunal.
Ayush Badoni scored a half century
Then Ayush Badoni and Nicholas Puran presented excellent batting examples. It is because of the good batting of these players that Lucknow team has been successful in reaching a respectable score. Puran scored 48 runs and Badoni scored 55 runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2 wickets for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Bhuvi proved to be very economical. He gave 12 runs in four overs. Apart from him, Pat Cummins took 1 wicket. Apart from these two, no other bowler could take a wicket.
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