IPL 2025: MI batter Suryakumar Yadav first non-opener with 700 runs

Suryakumar Yadav - Mumbai Indians' (MI) star better has achieved the feat of becoming the first non-opener to have a 700-run Indian Premier League (IPL) season.

Yada also goes past former Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) AB De Villiers' tally of 687 runs in 2016 for the most runs by a non-opener in an IPL season.

He achieved this feat after a vital 44 runs off 26 balls in his outing in Qualifier 2 of the ongoing IPL against Punjab Kings (PBKS) on Sunday at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

Before this fixture, Suryakumar was just 15 runs away from surpassing AB de Villiers to become the non-opener batter with the most runs in a single edition. Now, he has 717 in 16 innings, at an average of 60-plus and a strike rate of 167.83.

His tally includes five fifties with a top score of an unbeaten 73, Suryakumar is also in line to surpass Sai Sudharsan of Gujarat Titans as the highest run-getter of the season. Sudharsan leads the chart with 759 runs in 15 matches.

Had MI beat PBKS to qualify for the final, Suryakumar would have another opportunity to break Sudharsan's record, no other MI batter has scored over 650 runs in a single IPL season.

Mumbai Indians Squad: Rohit Sharma, Jonny Bairstow(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (c), Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Raj Bawa, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Richard Gleeson, Ashwani Kumar, Robin Minz, Raghu Sharma, Krishnan Shrijith, Reece Topley, Karn Sharma, Deepak Chahar, Charith Asalanka, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Arjun Tendulkar, Bevon Jacobs, Satyanarayana Raju.

Punjab Kings Squad: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Josh Inglis (w), Shreyas lyer(c), Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Shashank Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harpreet Brar, Kyle Jamieson, Arshdeep Singh, Musheer Naushad Khan, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Praveen Dubey, Xavier Bartlett, Suryansh Shedge, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vishnu Vinod, Yash Thakur, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen, Mitchell Owen, Harnoor Singh, Pyla Avinash.