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IPL 2024: Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Heinrich Klaasen (BCCI)
Sunrisers Hyderabad smashed 277/3 – the highest total in IPL history.
Sunrisers Hyderabad posted 277-3 for the highest-ever Indian Premier League total as Heinrich Klassen, Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head helped SRH amass an astonishing 277/3 against Mumbai Indians at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
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Heinrich Klaasen unbeaten on 80 off 34 balls on Wednesday.
Australia’s Travis Head hit a 24-ball 62 to lead the batting assault after Hyderabad batted first and went past the previous IPL best of 263-5 by Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2013.
Head, dropped on five by Tim David off skipper Hardik Pandya, got his fifty in 18 balls and after his departure Abhishek Sharma reached his half-century in 16.
The team’s 100 came up in just seven overs and Hyderabad, led by Australia’s World Cup-winning captain Pat Cummins, posted the tournament’s highest-ever total in the first 10 overs of 148-2.
Abhishek fell for 63 off 23 balls but there was no respite for the bowlers who were at the receiving end of some punishing batting.
It was raining sixes with 18 hits over the fence in 20 overs of Hyderabad’s innings as the South African pair of Klaasen and Aiden Markram, who hit 42, posted an unbeaten stand of 116.
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Highest score in IPL
| Score | Team | Against | Venue | Year |
| 277/3 | SRH | MI | Hyderabad | 2024 |
| 263/5 | RCB | PWI | Bengaluru | 2013 |
| 257/5 | LSG | PBKS | Mohali | 2023 |
| 248/3 | RCB | GL | Bengaluru | 2016 |
| 246/5 | CSK | RR | Chennai | 2010 |
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Highest total in Men’s T20s
| Score | Team | Against | Venue | Year |
| 314/3 | Nepal | Mongolia | Hangzhou | 2023 |
| 278/3 | Afghanistan | Ireland | Dehradun | 2019 |
| 278/4 | Czech Republic | Turkey | Ilfov County | 2019 |
| 277/3 | SRH | MI | Hyderabad | 2024 |
| 275/6 | Punjab | Andhra | Ranchi | 2023 |
It was a nightmarish start to the IPL for the 17-year-old South Africa 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.
With the majority of the Mumbai bowlers taken to the cleaners.
(With inputs from Agencies)
