Mumbai Indians (MI) batter Tim David claimed that the high-totals are not limited to the Indian Premier League (IPL) as the ongoing edition has eight 250+ scores so far.
Scoring 200 in an innings has become a norm in the IPL 2024 as teams are scoring even 230+ without much difficulty and, in several matches, the aggregate score crossed 450, which proves that there is not much for the bowlers in the tournament while the batters are enjoying life to the fullest.
However, David believed that it is not only in IPL but the cricketing leagues all over the world have seen massive totals as the way T20 cricket is played is changing with time.
"It wouldn't be outlandish to say the scores this IPL has been backing the trends and haven't been different to what has been happening in T20 cricket in history and recently so high scores unique to this tournament so far and I am not going to predict what is going to happen in the T20 World Cup," David said.
Earlier, stand-in skipper of Punjab Kings,Sam Curran, stated that cricket is turning into baseball after his side chased down 262 with eight balls to spare against Kolkata Knight Riders on Friday.
The match between the Kings and the Knight Riders broke the record for the most sixes hit as well as the highest chase in a T20 match.
"Cricket is turning into baseball, isn't it? It was absolutely incredible," Curran said at the post-match presentation.
"Where do we [start]? Absolutely delighted with two points. Games like that are out of the world, but most importantly we've had a tough few weeks as a team [this was Kings' first win in five games] but we've really hung in there. We've taken teams down to the wire and, I think, forget about the scores... I thought we actually deserved victory."
Remember, Jonny Bairstow’s unbeaten 108 off just 48 balls with the help of eight fours and nine sixes and Shashank Singh’s explosive innings down the order propelled the Kings to a remarkable win.
Singh scored 68 runs on just 28 at a massive strike rate of 242.86, courtesy of two fours and eight sixes and made sure that his side emerged winners in their 262-run target chase.
Meanwhile batting first,KKRstarted brilliantly with their opening pair of Phil Salt and Sunil Narine combining for 138 runs before the latter departed after contributing 71 runs on just 32 deliveries.