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In the match being played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings, RCB team made a big record in the history of T20 cricket. In this match, after losing the toss, RCB team came to bat first and scored 218 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs, in which a total of 16 sixes were hit in their innings. With this, RCB has now made the record of hitting most sixes in a single season of any tournament in the history of T20 cricket. Before RCB, this record was in the name of Sunrisers Hyderabad team, who have hit 146 sixes so far in the 17th season of IPL.
This many sixes were hit by RCB in the 17th season of IPL.
In the 17th season of IPL, 157 sixes have been hit so far by the RCB team. For RCB this season, the maximum number of sixes were seen from the bat of Virat Kohli in which he hit a total of 37 sixes in 14 innings. At the second place in this list is the name of Rajat Patidar who has hit 31 sixes. Sunrisers Hyderabad, who are second in terms of hitting most sixes in a T20 cricket tournament, still have a chance to break this record of RCB. At the third place in the list is the team of Chennai Super Kings, who had hit a total of 145 sixes in the 2018 IPL season.
Teams that hit the most number of sixes in a T20 cricket tournament
- Royal Challengers Bangalore – 157 sixes (IPL 2024)
- Sunrisers Hyderabad – 146 sixes (IPL 2024)
- Chennai Super Kings – 145 sixes (IPL 2018)
- Surrey – 144 sixes (T20 Blast 2023)
- Kolkata Knight Riders – 143 sixes (IPL 2019)
RCB equaled the records of Mumbai and KKR
The first phase of the 17th season of IPL was very bad for RCB, whose team made a brilliant comeback in the second phase and definitely kept itself in the race for the playoffs. By scoring more than 200 runs in the match against Chennai Super Kings, the RCB team definitely equaled a big record of Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL history. RCB has scored more than 200 for the sixth time this season, after which it has become jointly the third team to cross this figure most times in a single season of IPL.
Teams scoring 200 plus most times in a season of IPL
- Mumbai Indians – 6 times (IPL 2023)
- Kolkata Knight Riders – 6 times (IPL 2024)
- Royal Challengers Bangalore – 6 times (IPL 2024)
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