In-form Abhishek Sharma produced one other match-winning knock to guide Sunrisers Hyderabad to a powerful win over Punjab Kings in their final league stage match of the IPL 2024 season on Sunday, May 19. The teen smashed 66 off simply 28 balls as SRH chased down a 215-run goal with 4 wickets remaining.Â
Abhishek bagged his record third Player of the Match award of the 2024 season and likewise scripted an enormous milestone in IPL historical past. Abhishek registered six sixes throughout his explosive knock and have become the primary Indian participant in IPL historical past to record 40 or extra sixes in a season.
The 23-year-old teen broke Virat Kohli‘s well-known record for many sixes by an Indian cricketer in an IPL season. Kohli had recorded 38 sixes when he scored 973 runs in IPL 2026. The former RCB skipper additionally stays in a hunt to reclaim the feat having registered 37 sixes in the continued 2024 version.
Most sixes by an Indian batter in an IPL season
- 41 – Abhishek Sharma (SRH, 2024)
- 38 – Virat Kohli (RCB, 2016)
- 37 – Rishabh Pant (DC, 2018)
- 37 – Virat Kohli (RCB, 2024)
- 35 – Shivam Dube (CSK, 2023)
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