IPL2024: How Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated the Mumbai Indians to get beyond the IPL barrier

HYDERABAD: It all came down to nerves on a night when the record for the greatest IPL score was surpassed. Thanks to the outstanding batting of Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, and Heinrich Klaasen, Sunrisers Hyderabad amassed 277 for three, giving the fans at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium something to celebrate.

And they ended a valiant chase by holding the Mumbai Indians to 246/5 and winning by a margin of 31 runs.
After opting to field, Hardik Pandya and company counterattacked with similar ferocity while under pressure. Mumbai was kept in the game by Thakur Tilak Varma’s 64 (34b), but the chase proved to be a hard order in a match that yielded 523 runs, with Ishan Kishan leading the charge on a Wednesday when Hyderabad or Hyderabadi appeared to be the taste of the day.
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Along with record half-centuries from Head (62 off 24b) and Abhishek Sharma (63 off 23), Klaasen struck an unbroken 80 off 34 balls as the hosts exhausted the Mumbai assault.
Head made the Mumbai Indians pay for a missed opportunity by reaching the third-fastest IPL fifty in only 18 balls, only to have Abhishek surpass it in a matter of minutes with a half-century off just 16 balls. The hosts beat the previous record set in 2013 against Pune Warriors by Royal Challengers Bengaluru, which stood at 263/5. As he carried on with his destructive ways, Klaasen and Aiden Markram (42*) combined for an unbroken 116 runs for the fourth wicket.

Mumbai’s chance to bat came as Tilak guided his team beyond 100 runs in the eighth over. In the tenth over, he blasted three sixes off Shahbaz Ahmed, and the visitors reached 141/2 in ten, seven runs behind the hosts at that point.
To ruin the visitors’ hopes, Cummins removed Tilak (64 off 34b) in the fifteenth over. Tim David hit a fierce 42, but he could never quite achieve the asking rate.

Earlier, Head amassed 22 runs in the third over of the innings by hitting debutant Kwena Maphaka for 6, 6, 4, 4.
Following Mayank Agarwal’s out, Head hit two boundaries and a six off Gerald Coetzee to achieve his half-century and lead the hosts to their highest-ever IPL powerplay score of 81/1.

Abhishek delivered several fierce strikes on the head. In the seventh over, he blasted three sixes off Piyush Chawla to help the Sunrisers surpass the 100-run milestone.
After adding 68 runs with Abhishek, who subsequently took centre stage and smashed his record, Head left the field in pursuit of a wide delivery off Coetzee.

It didn’t take Klaasen long to become a party animal. In the fifteenth over, he hit Bumrah for six to help the hosts reach the 200-run milestone and set themselves up for a record total. Markram was still undefeated after 42 deliveries, while Klaasen completed his half-century in 23 deliveries.

To avoid wasting the batting effort, the SRH attack performed well.