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IPL 2024: The 30th match of the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Many old records in IPL history were broken in this match. With this, the record of the longest six of the season was broken in just two hours. The match saw a stormy innings of Dinesh Karthik, who scored 83 runs with the help of seven sixes in just 35 balls. Of these seven sixes, one now holds the record for the longest six of the season.
Skyscraper six came off Karthik's bat
During the RCB team's innings, Dinesh Karthik got out in the 16th over. Natarajan flicked the ball through the line of the pads to the deep fine leg boundary. This six was 108 meters long. Which has now also become the longest six of IPL 2024. During the Sunrisers Hyderabad innings in the match, a 106 meter long six was also hit from the bat of Heinrich Klaasen, which is the joint longest six of IPL 2024, although Karthik hit it in just two hours. Karthik has become the player to hit the longest six this season. In this match, Dinesh Karthik completed his half-century in just 23 balls, but he could not lead the team to victory with his innings.
Karthik reached 10th position in terms of scoring most runs.
Dinesh Karthik has been in great form with the bat so far in IPL 2024, where he is impressing everyone with his performance. On the basis of his innings against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Karthik has reached 10th place in the list of batsmen scoring the most runs this season. Karthik has so far scored 226 runs in 6 innings at an average of 75.33 and strike rate of 205.45. Karthik has hit 16 fours and 18 sixes so far this season.