New Delhi [India]: Australia and Delhi Capitals opener Jake Fraser McGurk continued his good run on the ongoing Indian Premier League, turning into the primary batter to smash a half-century in 15 or fewer balls twice in a match.
McGurk completed this feat throughout the match towards Mumbai Indians at Arun Jaitley Stadium.
Within the match, McGurk smashed 84 in 27 balls, with 11 fours and 6 sixes. His runs got here at a strike charge of 311.11.
The Aussie batting sensation reached his half-century in 15 balls, equaling his personal file of the quickest fifty for the franchise towards Sunrisers Hyderabad, which additionally got here this season.
He’s the one batsman in addition to West Indies T20 giants Sunil Narine and Andre Russell to have smashed a half-century in 15 balls or much less twice in T20 cricket.
McGurk has the third-highest strike charge by a batter in an IPL innings consisting of 20 or extra balls. Suresh Raina has the best strike charge in an IPL innings of 20 balls or extra. His knock of 87 in 25 balls towards Punjab Kings for Chennai Tremendous Kings in IPL 2014 has a strike charge of 348.00, which continues to be a file. Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Yusuf Pathan scored 72 in 22 balls towards Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2014, with a strike charge of 327.27.
Eighty of 84 runs scored by McGurk got here by fours and sixes, which implies 95.23 per cent of his runs got here by boundaries, making it the fourth-highest share of runs by boundaries in an IPL innings.
Raina occupies the highest spot right here too as 84 of his 87 runs throughout his iconic knock towards Punjab again in 2014, got here by fours and sixes, which makes it 96.55 runs by way of fours and sixes.
McGurk smashed 78 of his 84 runs within the powerplay, making it the third-most runs by a participant within the powerplay. Raina as soon as once more occupies the highest spot, scoring all his 87 runs in 25 balls towards Punjab again in 2014.
In 5 matches this season, McGurk has scored 247 runs at a median of 49.40 and a strike charge of 237.50, with three half-centuries. His finest rating is 84.
DC was put to bat first after Mumbai Indians received the toss.
Delhi Capitals: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Kumar Kushagra, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant, Tristan Stubbs, Abishek Porel, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Lizaad Williams, Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Verma, Nehal Wadhera, Hardik Pandya, Tim David, Mohammad Nabi, Piyush Chawla, Luke Wooden, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Thushara.
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