Stats: Shreyas Iyer's 147-run knock powers Mumbai to 258/4 against Sikkim

After dismal performances in the Ranji Trophy, Mumbai bounced back with a record effort in their opening game of the SM Ali T20 tournament at the Emerald High School Ground in Indore. Facing the new entrants Sikkim, the Mumbai team elected to bat first and lost their openers for 22 runs in the 3rd over. Shreyas Iyer counter-attacked and was in a mood of sending every delivery to the boundary. The young Iyer made a record 147 from only 55 balls with seven fours and 15 sixes.

He was well supported by Suryakumar Yadav who scored a 33-ball 63. The duo added 213 runs in only 82 deliveries as Mumbai posted 258/4 in their 20 overs. Only 23 runs came from the last four overs as the new batsmen hit only two fours as Mumbai fell short of recording the highest Twenty20 total only by six runs. Mumbai bowlers restricted Sikkim to just 104/7 and registered a 154-run victory.

Here are all the major stats and numbers recorded during the game between Mumbai and Sikkim:

15 – Number of sixes Shreyas Iyer hit during his 147-run knock; the most an Indian in a T20 inning. Rishabh Pant’s 12 sixes during his last year’s century for Delhi in the encounter against Himachal Pradesh were the previous highest by an Indian.

Iyer is only the 4th player to hit 15 or more sixes in Twenty20 cricket. Chris Gayle has done it on three different instances as he hit 18, 17 and 15 sixes in a BPL, IPL and T20 Blast game respectively. Graham Napier and Dasun Shanaka hit 16 sixes apiece in a T20 inning on one occasion.

38 – Shreyas Iyer’s 38-ball century is the 4th fastest by an Indian in Twenty20 cricket. Rishabh Pant scored the quickest ton by an Indian off 32 balls for Delhi last year while Rohit Sharma scored a 35-ball ton in a T20I against Sri Lanka a month before Pant’s effort. Yusuf Pathan scored an IPL century in 2010 off just 37 balls.

118 – Iyer scored 118 runs through boundaries in this innings; the most by an Indian in a T20 game. Rohit Sharma’s 108 runs during his 118-run knock against Sri Lanka came through boundaries; the previous most by an Indian.

147 – Shreyas Iyer’s 147-run knock is the highest individual score by an Indian in Twenty20 cricket. The previous highest T20 score by an Indian was 128* by Rishabh Pant against SRH during the IPL 2018. Iyer’s 147 is the 2nd highest individual T20 score by an Asian player behind Kamran Akmal’s 150* in 2017 National T20 Cup.

On Wednesday, Shafali Verma of Haryana scored 128 against Nagaland in the Senior Women’s T20 League which is the highest score by an Indian Woman in Twenty20 cricket.

154 – Mumbai’s winning margin of 154 runs is the 6th biggest victory in terms of runs for any team in Twenty20 cricket. This is also the biggest win in terms of runs for any team in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament surpassing Karnataka’s 123-run win against Jharkhand in 2018.

188 – Mumbai aggregated 188 runs through boundaries; the joint 4th most number of runs by any team in a T20 game. RCB in the 2013 IPL against PWI and India against Sri Lanka in a T20I in 2017 scored 210 runs through boundaries while the Essex team scored 190 runs during the 2008 English T20 competition against Sussex.

The North West team also scored 188 of their runs in boundaries in the last year’s T20 against Limpopo. Mumbai hit a total of 18 sixes during their innings while no other team hit even 15 in a Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament game.

213 – The 213-run partnership between Shreyas Iyer and Suryakumar Yadav is the highest for the 3rd and lower wicket in Twenty20 cricket. The previous highest partnership for the 3rd wicket was 184* between Alex Hales and AB de Villiers in the BPL last month.

Manpreet Juneja and Abdulahad Malik shared an unbeaten 202-run stand for the 4th wicket in 2013 for Gujarat against Kerala at the Emerald High School Ground only. It was the only other double-century stand in the T20 format for the 3rd or lower wicket and also the only 200-run stand in Syed Mushtaq Ali history.

213 – The 213-run stand between Iyer and Surya is overall the 4th biggest partnership for any wicket in Twenty20 cricket. Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers put on a 229-run stand in the 2016 IPL and a 215* in the 2015 edition for the 2nd wicket. During the last year’s T20I triangular series, Aaron Finch and D’Arcy Short added 223 against Zimbabwe for the opening wicket.

258/4 – Mumbai’s total of 258/4 is the highest total in the Indian Inter-State T20 Competition. The previous highest total in this tournament was 236/9 by Delhi against Andhra in 2016.

258/4 – The total of 258 is also the 7th highest by any team in Twenty20 cricket and the 3rd highest on the Indian soil. RCB posted 263/5 against PWI in the 2013 IPL season while India made 260/5 against Sri Lanka in 2017.

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