In-form Ruturaj Gaikwad played a captain's knock to help Chennai Super Kings post a challenging total of 212 against Sunrisers Hyderabad at MA Chidambaram Stadium. Gaikwad smashed 98 runs off just 54 balls as Chennai scripted a major record in T20 cricket history.
Gaikwad's heroics helped Chennai Super Kings post their 35th 200-plus total, a new record for most 200-plus totals in T20 cricket history. Chennai equalled English county side Somerset's all-time record of 34 200-plus totals in their last IPL 2024 game against Lucknow Super Giants and now dethroned them with a new landmark.
Indian men's cricket team is the only national side in the top five list of teams with the most 200-plus totals in T20 cricket. Royal Challengers Bengaluru also stormed into the top five list after recording 200-plus totals in the last four appearances in the ongoing IPL 2024.
Most 200+ totals in T20 cricket history
- 35 - Chennai Super Kings
- 34 - Somerset
- 32 - India men's cricket team
- 31 - Royal Challengers Bengaluru
- 29 - Yorkshire
Meanwhile, Ruturaj Gaikwad missed out on his century by just two runs as he became the only third player to reach a 400-run mark in the IPL 2024. Gaikwad has scored 447 runs in nine innings at a strike rate of 149.49 and is only behind Virat Kohli (500 runs in 10 innings) in the Orange Cap race. Gaikwad finished the 2021 edition as the leading run-getter and has scored 2244 runs in just 60 IPL innings so far.
Daryl Mitchell also contributed to Chennai's big total at MA Chidambaram Stadium as he ended his poor run of form by scoring 52 runs in 32 innings, his first fifty in IPL. Shivam Dube then displays his finishing skills again by smashing an unbeaten 39* off just 20 balls and the former skipper MS Dhoni entertained the home crowd with a boundary on the very ball he faced.
