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DC vs SRH Abhishek Sharma: Many records were broken in the match against Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Travis Head was doing amazing. Abhishek Sharma was also in such dangerous form that many records seemed to be in danger. Where Abhishek along with Travis Head scored the highest powerplay score in T20 history. Both of them added 125 runs in the first six overs. During this, Abhishek Sharma did very sensational batting. Sharma played a brilliant inning of 46 runs in just 12 balls. During this period his strike rate was 383.33. With every four and six, he was moving towards scoring the fastest fifty in the IPL.
Could have broken the record of fastest fifty
Till now, the record of fastest half-century in IPL is in the name of Yashasvi Jaiswal of Rajasthan Royals. Yashasvi scored a half-century in just 25 balls against Kolkata Knight Riders in the year 2023. Abhishek had the opportunity to score the fastest IPL fifty in the seventh over. He sent the first ball of DC spinner Kuldeep Yadav out of the ground for a six. Thanks to this shot, Abhishek had reached the score of 46 in 11 balls. However, Abhishek was caught out on the very next ball. Akshar Patel took a wonderful catch in extra cover. Due to this, Abhishek missed out on making this record. However, Abhishek certainly left his impact by hitting six sixes and two fours during his innings.
Fourth highest score in IPL history
It is noteworthy that Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma made a partnership of 131 runs in just 38 balls for the first wicket. On the basis of this, Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 266 runs for seven wickets against Delhi Capitals here on Saturday. Head scored 89 runs in 32 balls with the help of 11 fours and six sixes, while Abhishek scored 46 runs in just 12 balls with the help of two fours and six sixes. In the presence of these two, Sunrisers completed the fastest century in IPL history in five overs and then scored a record 125 runs in the powerplay. Both of them hit 10 sixes and the same number of fours in the first six overs. Shahbaz Ahmed played an unbeaten inning of 59 runs in 29 balls in the last overs, taking the team to 266 runs, which is the fourth highest score in IPL history.