IPL: Despite losing yesterday, this player won the hearts of the people of Gujarat, with a great record

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Mumbai Indians may have crashed out of the tournament after losing to Gujarat Titans in Qualifier-2 of IPL 2023, but the team's explosive batsman Suryakumar Yadav won the hearts of cricket fans with his storming innings. Suryakumar played a brilliant innings of 61 runs in 38 balls with the help of 7 fours and 2 sixes. With this inning, he also crossed the 600 run mark in IPL 2023. Surya is currently sixth in the race for the highest run-scorers this season.

Second highest run scorer for Mumbai Indians

In the 16th season of IPL, Surya scored 605 runs in 16 matches at an average of 43.21 and a brilliant strike rate of 181.14. With this, Surya has reached the second number in the list of batsmen who scored the most runs in the IPL season for Mumbai Indians. There are only two batsmen for Mumbai so far who have crossed the 600-run mark in a season. Before Surya, Sachin Tendulkar did this feat in 2010.

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Surya did this feat after Chris Gayle

Surya became the first Indian player in IPL history to score more than 600 runs with a strike rate of more than 180. No Indian batsman could do this in the last 15 seasons. Surya is the second batsman to do so in IPL. The first player to register his name in this list was Chris Gayle who did this feat in 2011.

Batsman to score 600 runs in one IPL season with highest strike rate

Chris Gayle - 183.13 (2011)

Suryakumar Yadav - 181.13 (2023)

Rishabh Pant - 173.6 (2018)

AB de Villiers - 168.61 (2016)

Yashshwi Jaiswal - 163.61 (2023)

Chris Gayle - 160.74 (2012)

Shubman Gill's record breaking century in the match

Shubman Gill played a brilliant innings of 129 runs against Mumbai Indians. Along with this, Shubham also created and broke many records. Gill became the highest individual scorer in an IPL playoff match. With this, Gill is second in the list of highest individual scorers by an Indian player in the IPL. Apart from this, Gill has reached the second most fours by an Indian player with 111 fours in a season. Shubman Gill also hit 10 sixes during his innings. He also became the player to hit most sixes in an innings in IPL playoffs matches.