{"id":327335,"date":"2025-12-21T00:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327335\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T00:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:57:16","slug":"batters-flex-their-muscles-in-record-breaking-season-of-smat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327335\/","title":{"rendered":"Batters flex their muscles in record-breaking season of SMAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The batting boom wasn&#8217;t limited to a few outliers. All top 20 run-getters crossed 300 runs, and 17 of them did so at a strike rate of 150 or more. Even the exceptions hovered close, with Haryana&#8217;s Yashvardhan Jalal finishing at 148.50. In total, 85% of players with 300+ runs struck at 150+, the highest proportion ever recorded in a T20 tournament. The 2024 edition of the tournament comes a close second at 81.8%, nine players out of 11. To further highlight, how far ahead it is of ballpark figures only three other tournaments had a 60% of higher share of batters aggregating 300+ runs at 150+ strike rate at least 10 players aggregating 300+ runs): 64.7% in IPL 2024 (22\/34), 60.6% in IPL 2025 (20\/33), and 60% in MLC 2025 (6\/10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The batting boom wasn&#8217;t limited to a few outliers. All top 20 run-getters crossed 300 runs, and 17&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[39531,128234,1721,103284,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-327335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-abhishek-sharma","9":"tag-anukul-roy","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-ishan-kishan","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}