It was a day of records for Suryakumar Yadav of Mumbai Indians as he slammed his maiden century in the Indian Premier League (IPL) persevering with his purple patch over the previous few matches. Surya’s knock of unbeaten 103 helped MI submit a mammoth complete of 218 runs after being invited to bat first on the Wankhede Stadium. He broke multiple records throughout his sensational outing with the bat and likewise entered the Orange Cap race. He is on the third place in the best run-getters listing of IPL 2023 with 479 runs in 12 matches at a strike fee of 190.84.
Here’s an inventory of records Suryakumar Yadav created along with his maiden IPL century:
1 – Suryakumar Yadav ended a nine-year drought for MI in phrases of scoring a century. Lendl Simmons was the final centurion for the five-time champions and he had reached the three-figure mark in 2014.
3 –Â Suryakumar Yadav’s unbeaten 103-run knock is the third highest particular person rating for Mumbai Indians in the historical past of IPL.
4 – Surya has now hit 4 centuries in his T20 profession – 3 in T20Is and 1 in IPL. Interestingly, all his tons have come in lower than 50 balls. Only Chris Gayle has scored 4 or extra T20 lots of in lower than 50 balls.
5 –Â Suryakumar Yadav is the fifth centurion for Mumbai Indians in the historical past of IPL.
1 –Â Suryakumar Yadav has one of the best strike fee of 190.83 this season amongst gamers who’ve scored greater than 150 runs. He has scored 479 runs up to now in 12 innings on the stated strike fee.
1 –Â Surya additionally turned the primary ever batter to attain a century towards Gujarat Titans in IPL.
Speaking after the match, Suryakumar Yadav termed his ton vs GT as top-of-the-line in his T20 profession. “Whenever I get runs I think the team should win, most importantly we batted first today and said that we would keep the same tempo when you are chasing 200-220. There was a lot of dew on the ground, it was there from the 7-8th over and I knew what shots to play, I was not thinking about hitting straight, I had two shots in the mind – one over fine leg and one over third man. There is lots and lots of practice before the game, so when I come into the game I am very clear and just go express myself,” he stated.
