Sunrisers Hyderabad break own record of highest total in IPL history in the same season; posts a total of 287 against RCB

The Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday broke their own record of posting the highest total in the history of the Indian Premiere League in this very season, making history yet again.

The team in Orange posted 287 against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, breaking their record of 277 runs against the Mumbai Indians.

Interestingly, this year's IPL has produced three of the eight highest totals in men's T20 history: 287-3 (tonight), 277-3 by Sunrisers Hyderabad, and 272-7 by Kolkata Knight Riders.

SRH openers Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head gave a strong start to the team as they successfully created a 108-run strong stand, putting a complete show at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru.

The Aussie opener also went on score IPL's fourth-fastest century and the fastest for the Hyderabad franchise.

However, Reece Topley dismissed Sharma at 34 runs to get a breakthrough for RCB.

The power-hitting run continued as Heinrich Klaasen 67 runs in merely 31 runs which also included 7 sixes.

Towards the end, it was Abdul Samad who continued to thrash the RCB bowlers as he smashed 37 runs in just 10 balls which included 4 fours and 3 sixes, at a strike rate of 370.

RCB skipper Faf du Plessis had won the toss and elected to bowl against SRH. Their hard-hitting batter Glenn Maxwell and pacer Mohammed Siraj were rested from the XI.

SRH skipper Pat Cummins came in to the game with an unchanged side.

Teams:
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Saurav Chauhan, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Mahipal Lomror, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Reece Topley, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan.

(More to come)