IPL 2024: SRH vs MI breaks record for highest aggregate runs in T20 match

In a thrilling encounter between Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Mumbai Indians (MI) tonight in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, the record for the highest match aggregate in men's T20 cricket was spectacularly surpassed. 

Both teams exhibited remarkable batting prowess, resulting in an astonishing total of 523 runs scored collectively.

This milestone eclipses the previous record set during a clash between South Africa and the West Indies in 2023, where a total of 517 runs were amassed.

Top five matches with the highest aggregates in T20 cricket 

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians - 523 runs (2024)

South Africa vs West Indies - 517 runs (2023)

Lahore Qalandars vs Multan Sultans - 515 runs (2023)

Surrey vs Middlesex - 506 runs (2023)

Titans vs Knights - 501 runs (2022)

Australia's Travis Head made a 24-ball 62 to lead the assault after Hyderabad batted first and went past the previous IPL best of 263-5 by Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2013.

Mumbai replied strongly in the match which witnessed 38 sixes for another IPL record, bettering the 33 hits over the fence clubbed three times in earlier seasons.

Left-handed Tilak Varma stood out with his 64 in 34 balls for Mumbai but the effort was not enough on a batting-friendly pitch in veteran batsman Rohit Sharma's 200th IPL match.

Rohit smashed a 12-ball 26 and fellow opener Ishan Kishan made 34 to give Mumbai a flying start but the innings lost momentum after 10 overs due to the ever-increasing asking rate.

Tim David smashed an unbeaten 42 in a late charge but the chase was beyond reach as Mumbai ended on 246-5 -- the team's highest IPL total.

Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins was the best of the bowlers with 2-35 in his four overs of pace, leading his side to their first win of the season.

Earlier, Head reached his fifty in 18 balls and after his departure, Abhishek Sharma reached his half-century off just 16.

The team's 100 came up in only seven overs and Hyderabad posted the tournament's highest-ever total in the first 10 overs of 148-2.

Abhishek fell for 63 off 23 balls but there was no respite for the bowlers who were at the receiving end of some punishing batting.

It was raining boundaries in Hyderabad's innings with 18 sixes and 19 fours as the South African pair of Heinrich Klaasen (80 not out in 34 balls) and Aiden Markram, who hit 42, posted an unbeaten stand of 116.

Mumbai's South African teenager Kwena Maphaka had a bruising introduction to IPL when the 17-year-old left-arm quick went for 66 runs in his four overs.

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