SRH vs KKR: Heinrich Klaasen created history by scoring a stormy century in 37 balls

SRH vs KKR: In the match played between Kolkata and Hyderabad on Sunday in the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025), Hyderabad defeated Kolkata by a huge margin of 110 runs. This was the last match of this season for both the teams. In this match, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) explosive batsman Heinrich Klaasen has created history in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. He scored a century in just 37 balls in the match played against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in Delhi and made the record of the third fastest century in IPL history.

This was the last match of this season for both the teams.

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Klaasen made this record

This century of Klaasen is jointly the third fastest century in IPL history, and the second fastest century by a foreign player. Only Chris Gayle is behind him in this list, who scored a century in 30 balls against Pune Warriors in 2013.

Sky is not the limit when he's batting! 🫡

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Fastest IPL centuries till date (based on balls)

30 balls – Chris Gayle (RCB) vs PWI, Bengaluru, 2013

35 balls – Vaibhav Suryavanshi (RR) vs GT, Jaipur, 2025

37 balls – Heinrich Klaasen (SRH) vs KKR, Delhi, 2025

38 balls – David Miller (KXIP) vs RCB, Mohali, 2013

On the basis of this stormy innings of Klaasen, SRH scored 278 runs. Which is the third highest team score in IPL history. SRH has four of the top five scores in IPL so far.

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Highest team scores in IPL history so far:

**287/3** – SRH vs RCB, Bengaluru, 2024 **286/6** – SRH vs RR, Hyderabad, 2025 **278/3** – **SRH vs KKR, Delhi, 2025** **277/3** – SRH vs MI, Hyderabad, 2024 **272/7** – KKR vs DC, Visakhapatnam, 2024 **266/7** – SRH vs DC, Delhi, 2024

This is how the match went

In this match, Hyderabad won the toss and decided to bat first. Hyderabad had set a target of 279 runs in front of Kolkata on the basis of Heinrich Klaasen's stormy century in 37 balls. But in response, Kolkata's batting collapsed in the 19th over.

Summary

Hyderabad's team has been in the sixth position this season. Hyderabad won 6 out of 14 matches this season and got 13 points. Whereas Kolkata could win only 5 matches and slipped to the eighth position with 12 points.