Ryan Rickelton breaks Sanath Jayasuriya’s 2008 IPL record with blering century | Cricket News
2 min readUpdated: Apr 29, 2026 09:23 PM Ryan Rickelton has become the eighth different player to score a century in the 2026 season of the Indian Premier League as he got to the mark in 44 balls for Mumbai Indians against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday. The South African has thus broken a record that has stood since the very first season of the IPL – he has surpassed Sanath Jayasuriya for the fastest century an MI player.
Rickelton smashed eight fours and seven sixes on his way to the mark, which is his first century in the IPL. It is also his fourth T20 century overall. While he had impressed with a 43-ball 81 in MI’s first match of the season against KKR, Rickelton was then out for single digit scores in three of his next four innings. It resulted in him being dropped for MI’s last two matches against Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings.
Rickelton then found a place at the top of the order on Thursday after his South Africa teammate Quinton de Kock was ruled out due to an injury he sustained while warming up. The new opening pair of Rickelton and Will Jacks ended up hitting the SRH bowlers to all parts of the ground, smashing 78 runs in the powerplay. Their opening stand ended on 93 in 43 balls when Jacks fell to Nitish Kumar Reddy on 46 off 22 balls. MI then lost the out-of-form Suryakumar Yadav soon thereafter and then Naman Dhir on 22 off 17 balls. It was Suryakumar at the other end when Rickelton raised his half-century in 24 balls.
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