Travis Head celebrates after scoring a 16-ball fifty against the Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday. (Express photo by Praveen Khanna)
On the eve of their game against the Delhi Capitals, Travis Head had opened up about Sunrisers Hyderabad’s batting strategy in the ongoing season that’s helped them post the two highest scores in the league’s history.
“It’s not going to work every game. But I can tell you, everyone’s terrified of when they come up against us and we have got to blow some teams out of the water before they have even walked out on the field,” Head had stated. On Saturday, Delhi was at the receiving end of Head and Abhishek Sharma’s wrath as the duo combined to add 125 runs in the powerplay for Delhi, the highest in the history of the league.
The previous record was held by the Kolkata Knight Riders, who had accumulated 105 runs without the loss of a wicket against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the 2017 season.
Here are the top five highest powerplay scores in IPL history:
| Team | Powerplay Score | Opposition | Year | Venue |
| SRH | 125/0 | DC | 2024 | Delhi |
| KKR | 105/0 | RCB | 2017 | Bengaluru |
| CSK | 100/2 | PBKS | 2014 | Mumbai |
| CSK | 90/0 | MI | 2015 | Mumbai |
| KKR | 88/1 | DC | 2024 | Visakhapatnam |
Batting first at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, SRH cross the 100 run mark off just five overs, which was also the quickest any team had got to it in T20 history. It was South Africa’s men’s national team who held the previous record – having crossed the triple digit mark inside 5.3 overs last year against the West Indies.
Off the 36 deliveries in the powerplay, 24 ended up as boundaries – 13 fours and 11 sixes.
While Head – fresh off his hundred against RCB – brought up his half-century off just 16 balls, Abhishek Sharma scored 46 off 12 deliveries before Kuldeep Yadav got rid off him in the seventh over.
In their previous outing, SRH had blasted 287 runs against RCB, which is so far the highest-total in IPL. Never in franchise cricket’s history has a team scored 300 runs. It has happened only once in all of T20s, when Nepal scored 314 against Mongolia at the Hangzhou Games last year in September.
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