5 IPL innings with highest strike-rates
With the advent of T20 cricket, the strike-rates of batsmen have become important and are now considered a key component of the statistics. A lot of batsmen can just leave an impact with a quick cameo with a massive strike-rate.
In the IPL, we have seen a lot of such cameos where the momentum of the game has taken a massive turn with one knock. Hence, we look at five IPL innings which had the highest strike-rate.
Note – Batsmen with minimum 25 runs have been considered.
#5 AB de Villiers - 372.72 vs Mumbai Indians (2015)
AB de Villiers is undoubtedly one of the best batsmen in the world at the moment in all three formats. In 2015, he started the year by scoring the fastest ODI hundred (in just 31 balls) against West Indies and had a fabulous World Cup as well.
In 2015, RCB were off to an indifferent start and though they won the first game, they faltered in the next. As far as De Villiers was concerned, he had got starts but failed to convert them.
In their third game of the season, RCB elected to field first after winning the toss against Mumbai Indians. MI were off to a good start and fifties from Lendl Simmons and Unmukt Chand and a blazing 15-ball 42 from Rohit Sharma propelled them to 209.
AB de Villiers walked in at No. 5 for RCB with the score reading 62/3 in the 11th over. The required run-rate had already shot up to 15.57. But as soon as the South African star walked out, he started shifting the momentum. He hit Mitchell McClenaghan for 2 fours and a six to start his innings.
Karthik got out in the 13th over, but that didn’t stop De Villiers. He got stuck into Lasith Malinga. The Sri Lankan star pacer was hit for two sixes and two fours in the 13th over as MI started to feel the pressure. In just 10 balls, De Villiers had raced off to 41, however, the carnage came to an end as he holed out.
It was an extraordinary innings from the then South African skipper as he put the MI bowlers under a lot of pressure. After De Villiers’ dismissal, Wiese continued the RCB fight but eventually, the Bangalore franchise fell short by 18 runs.