SRH vs MI IPL 2024 highlights: Classy Klaasen help SRH smash highest total in IPL history as Mumbai go down fighting

Sunrisers Hyderabad's captain Pat Cummins, right, and Shahbaz Ahmed celebrates the dismissal of Mumbai Indians' Ishan Kishan

SRH vs MI IPL highlights 2024: Travis Head's record for the quickest half-century by a Sunrisers Hyderabad batter lasted only 20 balls as Abhishek Sharma smoked a 16-ball 50 to lay the foundation of a record-breaking total in the high-scoring contest against Mumbai Indians in match No.8 of the Indian Premier League 2024 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Wednesday. In a contest where speedster Jasprit Bumrah failed to stage Mumbai's comeback, in-form Heinrich Klaasen played a blinder of a knock as his 34-ball 80 fired SRH to 277-3 in 20 overs.

Tasked to chase down the all-time highest total in IPL's history at Hyderabad, five-time winners Mumbai made an impressive start with Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma adding 56 runs for the first wicket. While Shahbaz Ahmed bagged the crucial wicket of Kishan, skipper Pat Cummins won his battle against Rohit in the fourth over. Leading MI's fightback, Tilak Varma smashed 64 off 34 balls. However, Tilak's entertaining knock went in vain as MI mustered 246-5 in 20 overs to lose the match by 31 runs.

Debutant Kwena Maphaka was preferred over Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya and premier pacer Bumrah as the U-19 World Cup star opened the bowling attack for the five-time champions against Sunrisers Hyderabad. SRH star Head welcomed the 17-year-old by smashing 22 runs in his second over. Replacing the young pacer, skipper Pandya made amends by dismissing Mayank Agarwal for 11 off 13 balls in the fourth over. After winning the toss, skipper Hardik revealed that Mumbai made just a single change to their playing XI against SRH. Former champions added Travis Head to their XI as the Australian batter replaced Marco Jansen.

Earlier, Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad had same-yet-contrasting outcomes before matchday 8 of the IPL 2024. While both lost their opening games of the 2024 Indian Premier League to their respective opponents by narrow margins, one team looked threatening while the other just gift-wrapped the match to their opponents. SRH almost chased down KKR's mighty total before Harshit Rana delivered a super final over for KKR. Meanwhile, MI stuttered and failed to knock off 43 in the last five overs to go down by six runs.

Here's all you need to know about MI vs SRH IPL 2024:

-SRH and MI scored a total of 523 runs - the most in a single IPL match.

-Tilak Varma played a fighting knock of 64 off 34 balls.

-SRH posted 277/3, the highest total in IPL history.

-Abhishek Sharma slammed the fastest fifty by an SRH batter.

-SRH broke RCB’s previous record total of 263/5.

-SRH hit 18 sixes, the joint third-highest in an innings.

-Heinrich Klaasen slamed half-century in 23 balls.

-Travis Head got to his half-century in 18 balls.

-Mumbai Indians were without superstar Suryakumar Yadav.

-Wanindu Hasaranga was unavailable for Sunrisers Hyderabad.

-Rohit Sharma played his 200th IPL match for Mumbai Indians.