Suryakumar Yadav Creates History, Becomes First Player In The World To Achieve Elusive IPL Feat

Suryakumar Yadav broke a 11-year-old record |courtesy - BCCI/IPL

KEY HIGHLIGHTS Suryakumar Yadav continued his fine run of form

Suryakumar set a massive all-time IPL record

Suryakumar is the current orange cap holder

After Rajasthan Royals won the toss and chose to bowl first, Ryan Rickelton (61 of 38) and Rohit Sharma (51 of 36) gave MI a quick start with a 116-run opening partnership. Suryakumar was promoted to number three and walked out to bat in the 11th over and ensured a grand finish with a knock of 48 in just 23 balls as the visitors posted a total of 217 on the board.

Suryakumar Yadav Creates History

Suryakumar broke Robin Uthappa 's 11-year-old record and became the first player in history to score 11 consecutive 25+ scores. Quite remarkably, the Indian T20I captain has crossed the 25-run mark in all 11 matches that the five-time champions have played this year.

Player Consecutive 25+ Scores Year Suryakumar Yadav 11 2025 Robin Uthappa 10 2024 Steve Smith 9 2016-18 Virat Kohli 9 2024-25 Sai Sudharsan 9 2024-25 In the last game, Suryakumar had also become the first player in history to achieve the feat in the first 10 games of a season. Uthappa's incredible run had come during Kolkata Knight Riders' 2014 IPL title win. The dream run came from the sixth league stage game of the season till the first qualifier before ending with a knock of five in the final against Kings XI Punjab. In the last game, Suryakumar had also become the first player in history to achieve the feat in the first 10 games of a season. Uthappa's incredible run had come during Kolkata Knight Riders' 2014 IPL title win. The dream run came from the sixth league stage game of the season till the first qualifier before ending with a knock of five in the final against Kings XI Punjab.

Infact, all 10 knocks of Uthappa were scores of more than 40 runs, which is also a record. Meanwhile, Suryakumar has made scores of 29, 48, 27*, 67, 28, 50, 26, 68*, 40*, 54, 48*

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