Leaders Online Desk: History was made in the 42nd match of IPL 2024 played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings at the Eden Gardens on Friday (26th). Both teams hit 42 sixes in the match, the highest in a men's T20I match. At the same time, by chasing 262 runs, Punjab broke the old record of successfully chasing the biggest target in T20 cricket.
Punjab Kings chased the highest total in the history of T20 cricket and the league. Kolkata Knight Riders set a target of 262, which Punjab completed with eight balls to spare. Chasing 262 runs, Punjab broke the years-old record in T20 cricket. Last year in Centurion, South Africa challenged West Indies by 259 runs. At the same time, Punjab also broke the four-year-old record of the biggest run chase in the IPL. In 2020, Rajasthan successfully chased down 224 against Punjab in Sharjah.
A total of 523 runs were scored in this match, the second highest (combined) in any IPL match. In the same season against Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad at Chinnaswamy, 549 runs were scored in both innings, which was the highest. At the same time, in the match played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians in Hyderabad in the same season, 523 runs were scored in both innings.
In this match, Punjab hit 24 sixes, which is the most by any team in an innings of an IPL match. Earlier in this season, Sunrisers had hit 22 sixes against Bengaluru. At the same time, these are the second most sixes hit in a single innings in T20 cricket. Only Nepal's team is ahead of Punjab. He hit 26 sixes against Mongolia in the 2023 Asian Games.
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