highlights
Abhishek Sharma scored 63 runs in 23 balls
22 year old batsman told how he scored the fastest fifty
New Delhi. Young batsman Abhishek Sharma, who scored the fastest fifty for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL, has told how he accomplished such a big feat. Abhishek played an important role in helping his team score a record-breaking score by scoring a half-century in just 16 balls. Abhishek says that in the team meeting before the match, the message was for everyone to go and play openly. The coach and captain had asked all the batsmen to play their natural game openly. Sunrisers Hyderabad’s batsmen created a series of records at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium and registered the highest score of IPL against Mumbai by scoring 277 runs for 3 wickets and won by 31 runs.
For Sunrisers Hyderabad, Travis Head scored 62 runs in 24 balls and Abhishek Sharma scored 63 runs in 23 balls while Heinrich Klaasen played an unbeaten inning of 80 runs in 34 balls. Earlier in the IPL The highest score of 263 runs for five wickets was made by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2013. Abhishek Sharma said, ‘I did not realize that this was the fastest half-century for Sunrisers. I just wanted to play freely and get out. It was only later that I came to know this. I enjoyed it a lot.
Ghosts of kicks… Special slippers are waiting for you… Disciple hits fastest fifty, still Guru is not happy
Team lost in Rohit’s 200th match, made place in Virat- Dhoni’s special club, became the first MI player to do so
Head and Abhishek added 68 runs in 22 balls
Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma made a partnership of 68 runs in just 22 balls. A total of 38 sixes were hit in this match, which is the highest in any single match in men’s T20 cricket. A total of 523 runs were scored by both the teams, which had not been scored before in any match of either IPL or Men’s T20. The 8th league match of IPL will be remembered for the record. In front of the mountain-like target, Mumbai team could score 246 runs for 5 wickets. Tilak Verma scored the maximum 64 runs for Mumbai.
Klaasen snatched Orange Cap from Virat Kohli by playing ‘classic’ innings, foreign bowler shines in bowling
‘It was fun batting with Travis Head’
In the team meeting before the match, there was a direct and clear message for the batsmen to come on the field and play openly. This was a very positive message that was received from the captain and coach. This helped all the batsmen. Travis is one of my favorite batsmen and it was a lot of fun batting with him.
,
Tags: Abhishek Sharma, IPL, SRH vs MI, Travis Head
FIRST PUBLISHED: March 28, 2024, 13:03 IST