Fastest 50 in IPL: The match between Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad is being played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, in which the explosive innings of SRH batsmen have created many records. In the same match, Travis Head scored a half-century in 18 balls. With this, Head had become the player to score the fastest fifty for SRH in the history of IPL, but within a few minutes, 23-year-old Abhishek Sharma has broken this record. He scored a half-century in just 16 balls while hitting sixes and fours. In this match, he proved MI’s bowling to be poor by making a partnership of 68 runs in just 22 balls with Travis Head.
Abhishek Sharma played only 23 balls in this match, in which he played an explosive inning of 63 runs with 3 fours and 7 strong sixes. In his first match in IPL 2024, i.e. against KKR, he had played an inning of 32 runs in 19 balls, but this time his bat was as if it was on fire. Earlier in the IPL, no Hyderabad player had been able to score a half-century in less than 20 balls, but Sharma has achieved this feat in just 16 balls. On the other hand, in this match, Australian explosive batsman Travis Head played a tremendous inning of 62 runs in 24 balls and destroyed the Mumbai Indians bowlers. Head started the innings by hitting a four off Quena Mafaka. Travis Head also hit 9 fours and 3 skyscraper sixes in this innings of 62 runs.
Abhishek Sharma’s IPL career
Abhishek Sharma made his IPL debut in 2018. Till date he has played 49 matches, in which he has scored 975 runs. In this short career, he has also played 5 half-century innings. He is playing the role of the main opening batsman for SRH in IPL 2024 and looking at the way runs are coming from his bat so far, it seems as if he is one of the strong contenders for the Orange Cap in IPL 2024.
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