Australia’s Travis Head hit a 24-ball 62 to lead the batting attack after Hyderabad batted first and went past the past IPL best of 263-5 by Imperial Challengers Bengaluru in 2013.
Head, dropped on five by Tim David off captain Hardik Pandya, got his fifty out of 18 balls and after his flight, Abhishek Sharma arrived at his 50 years in 16.
The group’s 100 came up in only seven overs and Hyderabad, drove by Australia’s Reality Cup-winning commander Pat Cummins, posted the competition’s most elevated at any point complete in the initial 10 overs of 148-2.
Abhishek fell for 63 off 23 balls yet there was no reprieve for the bowlers who were forced to bear some rebuffing batting.
It was coming down sixes with 18 hits over the wall in 20 overs of Hyderabad’s innings as the South African sets of Klaasen and Aiden Markram, who hit 42, posted an unbeaten stand of 116.
Mumbai’s South African import Kwena Maphaka had a swelling prologue to IPL when the 17-year-old left-arm speedy went for 66 runs in his four overs.
Five-time victors Mumbai, who had an adjustment of captaincy after Pandya took over from the accomplished Rohit Sharma, and Hyderabad began this version with a misfortune each.
The match is Rohit’s 200th in the worthwhile T20 competition where the Indian skipper has driven Mumbai to every one of the five titles.