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The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a men's Twenty20 (T20) cricket competition, organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the national governing body of cricket in India. T20 cricket is a shorter format of the game, with each team playing a single innings of 20 overs .
As of 2024, there have been seventeen seasons of the IPL tournament. [11] [12] Up until 2021, the IPL tournament involved each team playing every other team twice in a home-and-away, double round-robin format. [13] [14] From 2022, the ten teams were divided into two groups of five. A random draw was used to determine the groups and who plays ...
According to an independent report conducted by Brand Finance, a London-based company, after the conclusion of the 2017 Indian Premier League, the IPL's business value grew by 37% to an all-time peak of $5.3 billion, exceeding the five-billion-dollar mark for the first time in a season. According to the company's director Savio D'Souza:
At that time Sehwag became the second player to score a double century in Men's One Day Internationals. In women's cricket Amelia Kerr of New Zealand set a new highest individual score in women's ODI when she broke Belinda Clark's 21-year-old record on 13 June 2018, scoring an unbeaten 232 runs against Ireland. Kerr is also the youngest player ...
Two of the first three scores were made at The Vine, Sevenoaks, depicted here in 1780. In 1769, John Minshull scored the first recorded century (100 runs or more) in cricket. [2] At the time, it was uncommon for a team's innings to be in excess of 100 runs, as the poor quality of the cricket pitches made batting difficult.
Sachin Tendulkar scored a century in IPL 2011 for the Mumbai Indians. [7] Virat Kohli is one of only two players to score 4 IPL centuries in a single season. The other is Jos Buttler, who is also one of four players to score IPL centuries in back-to-back innings, the others being Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan and Shubman Gill.
During a 22 October 2023 match against New Zealand, Sharma became the first Indian batter to hit 50 One Day International (ODI) sixes in a calendar year. [130] On 2 August 2024, Sharma surpassed Eoin Morgan to have hit most sixes in international cricket as captain. [131] Sharma's 19 Player of the Match awards is the highest in IPL history. [132]
This is now a list of Twenty20 men's cricket records, that is a record team or individual performances in Twenty20 cricket (T20). The records only include top-level T20 games: those played in officially recognized tournaments in ICC Full-member countries or any Twenty20 International.