Four wides, one no ball and… Joffra Archer bowled the longest over of IPL.
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Jofra Archer: Jofra Archer finished the first over of the match against Gujarat Titans in 11 balls. With this he became the bowler who bowled the joint longest over in the IPL. Archer already has the record of conceding the most runs in an IPL match. In 2025, he gave away 76 runs in four overs in a match against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Joffra Archer jointly became the bowler who bowled the longest over in the IPL.
New Delhi. In the 52nd match of IPL 2026, Rajasthan Royals faced Gujarat Titans. A shameful record has been registered in the name of RR fast bowler Joffra Archer at the Sawai Mansingh Cricket Stadium. Archer has become the bowler who bowled the longest first over in IPL history. Archer bowled a total of 11 balls to complete the first over of the innings against Gujarat Titans. With this, Archer has jointly become the first bowler to bowl the longest over in IPL. Let us tell you that Archer already has a shameful record in his name for giving away the most runs in an IPL match. Now he has also joined this unwanted list.
Before Archer, Mohammad Siraj, Tushar Deshpande, Shardul Thakur, Sandeep Sharma, Hardik Pandya and Arshdeep Singh have also bowled overs of 11 balls. Archer bowled 4 wides and one no-ball in this over. He spent a total of 18 runs in this over. This is also the most expensive first over of Archer in IPL so far.
The name has a shameful record of giving away the most runs in a match.
Archer already remains the bowler who has given away the most runs in an IPL match. He gave runs at an economy of 19 in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2025. In this match, Archer bowled four overs and gave away 76 runs. During this period he did not achieve any success.
Rajasthan won the toss
Gujarat Titans, who came to bat first after losing the toss, once again gave a great start to Sai Sudarshan and Shubman Gill. Both of them added 82 runs in the powerplay of six overs, which is also the joint highest score of Gujarat Titans in the powerplay. Sudarshan-Gill made a century partnership for the first wicket in IPL for the sixth time. They became the opening pair with the joint highest century partnership in this league. Sudarshan-Gill equaled the records of David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan. Warner-Dhawan have also made century partnerships 6 times in this league. At the same time, Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head have also added more than 100 runs for the first wicket six times.
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