Karthik breaks Suresh Raina’s eight-year-old record in the IPL

Dinesh Karthik is having a dream season in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He is playing the way he wants with the bat. The wicketkeeper-batsman of Royal Challengers Bangalore has been regularly intimidating the opposition bowlers in this year’s IPL. Karthik also broke an eight-year-old record by aggressive batting.

Karthik, who captained the Kolkata Knight Riders last season, has a new look in the Bangalore jersey. He is batting aggressively in every match, and he has been quite successful in that. Sunrisers Hyderabad also maintained the continuity of playing fast innings in the last match, and Karthik remained unbeaten on 30 runs from just 8 balls.

And in that, he made a unique record of eight years old. This is 30 or more runs innings at the highest strike rate as an Indian batsman in IPL history. Karthik has surpassed Suresh Raina by scoring 375 strike rate with 1 four and 4 big sixes. In the last over of the innings, Afghan fast bowler Fazal Haque Farooqi took 25 runs.

Suresh Raina is the Indian batsman who smashed more than 30 runs at the most strike rate in the IPL. The Chennai Super Kings batsman played 87-run tornado innings off just 25 balls against Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) in 2014. With 12 fours and 6 sixes where his strike rate was 348.

At number three in this list is the name of another hard hitter Yusuf Pathan. He scored 72 off 22 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad for Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL 2014 season. Yusuf’s strike rate with 5 fours and 7 sixes was 327.27. This time Karthik came up at number one, surpassing everyone in the past.