Jos Buttler almost single-handedly led Rajasthan Royals to a record-equalling chase of 224 against the Kolkata Knight Riders with an unbeaten 107 off 60 balls.
Sunrisers Hyderabad amassed 287-3 for the highest-ever Indian Premier League total and beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 25 runs on a Monday full of records and featuring a century by Travis Head.
Rohit Sharma scored 105 off 63 balls but Mumbai Indians lost at home to Chennai Super Kings by 20 runs, which is also incidentally the amount of runs that MS Dhoni scored in the four balls that he faced at the end of the away team's innings.
A spin-bowling masterclass from Kuldeep Yadav followed by a power-hitting show by Jake Fraser-McGurk, Prithvi Shaw and Rishabh Pant helped the Delhi Capitals end their losing streak with a comprehensive six-wicket win over the high-flying Lucknow Super Giants.
Nitish Kumar Reddy's 37-ball 64 helped Sunrisers Hyderabad prevail over Punjab Kings despite Arshdeep Singh taking four wickets and Ashutosh Rana and Shashank Singh orchestrating another late charge by the hosts.
Ravindra Jadeja made optimum use of a tacky Chepauk surface as Chennai Super Kings were back to winning ways after they comfortably outclassed Kolkata Knight Riders by seven wickets in an IPL match here on Monday. It was CSK's third win in five games, all of which have come at Chepauk, having lost the last two matches away from home.
All-rounder Marcus Stoinis' half-century was complimented brilliantly by pacer Yash Thakur's fifer and a stunner of a catch from Ravi Bishnoi off his own bowling helped Lucknow Super Giants to a comfortable 33-run win over Gujarat Titans in their IPL 2024 match here on Sunday.
Jos Buttler with a century on the last ball of the match trumped Virat Kohli's ton from the first innings as Rajasthan Royals beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 6 wickets.
Punjab Kings snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat with Shashank Singh smashing an unbeaten 61 off 29 balls and Impact Player Ashutosh Sharma scoring 31 in 17 balls.
RCB smashed the fifth highest total in IPL's history in the 2016 season. Virat Kohli (109) and Ab de Villiers (129) smashed centuries for RCB in the 144-run win.
Shah Rukh Khan give Gautam Gambhir a hug after the KKR vs DC IPL match on Wednesday. KKR put in a dominating performance as they registered 272 runs in the allotted 20 overs. This second-highest IPL team score on the back of outstanding hitting display by Sunil Narine, Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell and Rinku Singh.
Bollywood icon and co-owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders team, Shah Rukh Khan (R), hugs their mentor Gautam Gambhir after their win against Delhi Capitals
The fastest ball of IPL 2024 was bowled by Lucknow Super Giants' Mayank Yadav. The LSG quick let loose a 156.7 km/h missile against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Mayank Yadav was the toast of the evening as he flattened Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their chase of a target of 182. Mayank recorded figures of 3/14 as RCB were all out for 153 in reply to LSG's 181/5
Mumbai Indians' nightmarish start to the season continued as they fell to their third consecutive defeat in their first game at home. The home crowd at the Wankhede Stadium booed their new captain Hardik Pandya on a number of occasions as they lost to Rajasthan Royals by six wickets.
MS Dhoni batted for the first time this season and blasted 37 runs in just 16 balls but it was not enough to stop Chennai Super Kings from falling to their first defeat of the season. Delhi Capitals, conversely, recorded their first win of the season, beating CSK by 20 runs in Visakhapatnam.
Lucknow Super Giants outclassed Punjab Kings with a 21-run win to open their account on the points table in the Indian Premier League match on Saturday at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow. Chasing the 200-run target, Punjab fell short and were restricted to 178/5/
A ruthless fifty by Venkatesh Iyer worked as the catalyst for Kolkata Knight Riders' smooth seven-wicket victory over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their IPL match here on Friday.
Riyan Parag smashed an unbeaten 84 off 45 balls, almost single-handedly bailing Rajasthan Royals out of a disastrous start batting first and helping them record their second consecutive win of the season at home. RR beat the Delhi Capitals by 12 runs, restricting them to a score of 173/5 in reply to 185/5.
Shivam Dube blazed 51 off 23 balls as Chennai Super Kings thrashed Gujarat Titans by 63 runs at the Chepauk Stadium in a match that was a repeat of the 2023 final. CSK smashed 206/6 and GT in reply were restricted to a score of 143/8.
Virat Kohli scored 77 off 49 but it needed some typically brilliant finishing touches from Dinesh Karthik as RCB beat PBKS by four wickets in their first home match of the season. PBKS scored 176/6 batting first and Karthik finished unbeaten on 28 off 10 balls, hitting the winning runs in the last over with a four.
It wasn't a happy return for Hardik Pandya who started his tenure as Mumbai Indians captain with a six-run defeat to Gujarat Titans, whom he had led to the IPL title and runners-up position in the last two seasons. Gujarat Titans scored 168/6 and in response, MI were restricted to a score of 162/9
SRH needed 13 to win off the last over of their match against KKR at the Eden Gardens and pacer Harshit Rana ended up taking two wickets and conceding just eight runs to pull the hosts to victory in their first match of the 2024 season of the IPL.