Punjab Kings made a long list of records against KKR, Created a History of the Records

Punjab Kings made a long list of records against KKR, Created a History of the Records

PBKS vs KKR IPL 2024: No one would have imagined what Punjab Kings did, in the same match, first KKR scored a lot of runs and Punjab team chased it easily. This will be recorded in the history of IPL as a magical performance. But Still some people must have thought that the record of the biggest score might be broken. But no one would have thought that the target of more than 250 runs would be achieved, that too in the 19th over. Punjab Kings have done it. Against Kolkata Knight Riders, all the batsmen of Punjab appeared in dashing foam together and they made history by scoring 262 runs.

Punjab Become Record Breaker and Setter

In the match played at Eden Gardens, Punjab achieved the target of 262 runs in 18.4 overs by losing only 2 wickets. Jonny Bairstow was the hero of the run chase, scoring a brilliant 108, while Shashank Singh put the finishing touches with 68 runs. In this way, Punjab broke not only the IPL, but also the records of T20 cricket.

These are the records made by Punjab Kings

Not only in the IPL, but also in the history of T20, Punjab set a record for the biggest target in the history of T20. The record was previously held by South Africa, who achieved the target of 259 runs against the West Indies last year. The previous record in IPL was in the name of Rajasthan, which achieved the target of 224 two times. One of them came against KKR in the same season.

Both teams scored 523 runs in the match, which is the joint second-highest. Earlier, the same thing happened in the Mumbai-Hyderabad match. The record was also set in the Hyderabad-Bengaluru match (549 runs) in the same season.

Batting first, KKR had scored 261 runs, which was the highest score at Eden Gardens. Within 2 hours, Punjab broke that record and scored 262 runs.

A total of 42 sixes were hit by both teams in this match, which is a new record for the most sixes in any T20 match. The previous record (38) was also set in the Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore and Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians IPL matches in the 2024 season.

In this match, both the openers from both the teams scored more than 50 runs, which is the first time in IPL. Sunil Narine (71) and Phil Salt (75) scored for KKR, while Prabhsimran Singh (54) and Bairstow (108) scored for Punjab.

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The highest six in match record is held by Nepal (26). Pujab Kinks is on Top in IPL with hitting 24 sixes in a match against KKR . Jonny Bairstow (9 sixes), Shashank Singh (8), Prabhsimran Singh (5) and Rilee Rousseau (2) combined to hit 24 sixes for Punjab, the most in an IPL innings and the second-highest in T20 cricket overall.