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Vivo IPL 2021 Match 24 Rajasthan Royals Vs Mumbai Indians April 29, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Sharath

1. In back to back matches now the teams chasing have won the match chasing exactly 172 to win (Chennai Super Kings yesterday and Mumbai Indians today).
2. Rahul Chahar (2-33) has been among the wickets in his last 5 IPL matches and is now the third highest wicket-taker in this edition with 11 wickets.
3. Quinton de Kock finally got into form, top scored with an unbeaten 70 (his 15^th IPL half century) and won his fourth player of the match award.
4. Krunal Pandya (39) scored his best in this IPL. Prior to this innings, he had scored just 31 runs in 5 innings.
5. Among the Top 15 run getters in this IPL only Rohit Sharma and Surya Kumar Yadav feature from the Mumbai Indians (MI).
6. Chris Morris now moves to third position in leading wicket takers list in this edition, which he interestingly shared with Rahul Chahar.
7. Chris Morris of Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Rahul Chahar of MI both had identical bowling figures (4-0-33-2).
8. Jasprit Bumrah (1-15 in 4 overs) is the most economical bowler in this IPL among those who have played 6 matches at least. His economy rate in this edition is an impressive 5.91.
9. Rahul Tewatia has claimed just 1 wicket in 6 matches in this IPL and has been wicketless in his last 3 matches.
10. Among the top 20 wicket takers in this IPL so far only Chris Morris and Chetan Sakariya feature for RR.
11. Trent Boult’s wicket of Sanju Samson was his 14^th dismissal of a batsman getting bowled by him among his 70 IPL wickets. Interestingly. Boult’s 5 of the last 7 batsman he dismissed were all bowled.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 25 Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Delhi Capitals April 29, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Sharath

1. Shubman Gill finally comes to the run scoring party after missing out on the first 6 games. That leaves us with just Manan Vohra and Quinton de Kock as the only opening batsmen with total accumulated runs less than 100 (minimum 4 matches). They both have got less than 50 runs in fact at the time this match was played.
2. Sunil Narine (0) has now registered back to back ducks and his 8th in 70 innings in IPL. He has batted in positions 3-5 in his last 6 innings and has combined for just 17 runs, including three ducks.
3. After a match winning unbeaten 47, Kolkata’s skipper Eoin Morgan was dismissed for a duck today and he has now scored less than 100 runs in his 7 innings.
4. Prithvi Shaw rose to third positions in the leading run getters list with a rapid-fire innings of 82. He also broke Deepak Hooda’s record of scoring the fastest 50 in this IPL of just 18 deliveries. He also scored 6 boundaries in an over from Mavi.
5. Shikhar Dhawan reclaimed the Orange cap with a knock of 46 and now he becomes the first batsman to score 300 or more runs in this IPL. By missing to score a 50, he has done this with just two knocks over 50 in 7 innings. All 3-batsmen chasing him to the top spot have all scored 3 fifties (Rahul, Shaw and du Plessis).
6. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has now only won 3 of their last 10 IPL matches.
7. Eoin Morgan has also now lost 9 of his 14 matches as captain.
8. After a good start of 53 in the first match of this season for KKR, Rahil Tripathi (19 in this match) has scored just 134 runs in his next 6 innings.
9. Nitish Rana (15 in this match) is the only KKR batsman in the top 10 run getters lisy so far this season with 201 runs in 7 innings.
10. Avesh Khan (1-31) maintains his second position among leading wicket taker sin this IPL so far, still 4 wickets behind Harshal Patel.
11. Not a good one for KKR’s bowling, but among most runs given by bowlers in this IPL, KKR’s bowlers make the top 3 with Cummins (243 runs), Prasidh Krishna (237 runs) and Varun Chakravarthy (219 runs).
12. Andre Russell is now third KKR batsman and bowler in the all time run getter (runs) and wicket-takers list (7 wickets) as well.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 23 Sunrisers Hyderabad Vs Chennai Super Kings April 28, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Sharath

1. Shardul Thakur was back to being expensive again giving away 44 runs in his 4 overs. He is the second most runs giver in this tournament so far (211) just behind Pat Cummins (213). He has also only taken 4 wickets in 6 matches.
2. Among the top 5 leading wicket takers for Chennai in this tournament so far, only Sam Curran and Lungi Ngidi were among the wickets in this game.
3. Deepak Chahar’s sinusoidal streak ended in this game as he has now been wicketless in two consecutive matches. Earlier he had a pattern of claiming 4 wickets in a match or none in alternate games. Interestingly, he is still the sxth leading wicket taker in the tournament and Chennai’s leading wicket taker as well.
4. Faf du Plessis has overtaken Shikar Dhawan by 5 runs as the leading run getter in this tournament so far. Only Faf and KL Rahul have scored 3 fifties in the tournament as well till now.
5. David Warner (57 of 55 balls) had a slow scoring game for his standards. Interestingly all captains except Sanju Samson of Rajasthan Royals all have a batting strike rate below 131 so far.
6. Sam Curran has been among wickets in 5 consecutive matches now and has taken crucial wickets (Andre Russell, Virat Kohli, Jonny Bairstow in this game).
7. Manish Pandey (61) scored his second fifty n 4 matches in this IPL. He started this edition with an unbeaten 61 as well against Kolkata Knight Riders.
8. Rashid Khan has seen a increasing trend of runs being scored of his bowling in recent matches. He has given away 67 runs in his last 8 overs in this IPL. However, he had his best bowling in this edition with 3-36 and with 9 overall wickets, he is now tied in the third position among leading wicket takers.
9. Ruturaj Gaikwad scored his fifth IPL 50 in 12 innings. Faf and Ruturaj are the only openers to figure in the top 10 run getters list in this tournament so far.
10. Chennai Super Kings chased the target of 171 runs easily with an over and a half to spare and also with just one six in their entire innings (scored by Faf).

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 22 Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Delhi Capitals – April 27, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Sharath

1. Shimron Hetmeyer (53*) scored his second IPL 50 in 20 innings. This time he ended up on the losing side to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). His first 50 was interestingly for RCB in the 2019 edition and he ended up on the winning side and won the Player of the match as well.
2. RCB, except for their match number 4 vs Rajasthan Royals, which they won without losing a wicket, have lost their first wicket before 44 runs and the second wicket  before 55 runs on board.
3. Rajat Patidar made his comeback to play just his second IPL match but has now been dismissed in single digits on both the occasions, batting at number 3. He was also dismissed “bowled” on both the matches.
4. Rishabh Pant (60*) scored his 14th 50 in IPL. Delhi has won 7 of the 14 matches he has scored a fifty. Interestingly, he has lost all his 4 matches in which he has scored a fifty against RCB and AB de Villiers was Player of the match on 3 of those 4 matches.
5. This match is just the eleventh instance in which the margin of victory was just by 1 run. RCB has won by the same narrowest of margin thrice now.
6. RCB has now lost just once in their 6 matches in this IPL so far. Prior to this edition, they have lost 6 of their last 10 matches.
7. AB de Villiers (75*) blasted his way into the top 6 leading run getters list. With Maxwell, there are now two RC players in the top 6 run getters so far in this IPL.
8. Hetmeyer scored the joint second fastest 50 (with Pat Cummins) in this IPL off 23 balls.
9. Harshal Patel (2-37) continues to lead the bowlers list with most wickets so far in this IPL with 17 and holds the Purple cap as well. He has claimed a wicket in all the 6 matches so far.
10. Washington Sundar has batted in multiple positions in this IPL from number 1, 3, 6 (twice) and did not bat twice (including in one match he didn’t bat even at number 6). He has scored in double digits only once in 4 innings.
11. Avesh Khan was once again among the wickets for DC with 112wickets in the tournament and is also the second leading wicket taker overall. Prior to this IPL edition, he was wicketless in his last 6 matches dating back to the 2018 edition.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 21 Punjab Kings Vs Kolkata Knight Riders – April 26, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Sharath

1. Punjab Kings (PBKS) becomes the first team to score less than 135 in two of their 6 matches, batting first. They have scored between 120-132 in their last 3 matches though they chased a low target of 132 in their last game.
2. Punjab Kings scored the slowest 100 of the tournament, which they reached in 18.2 overs.
3. Nicolas Pooran (19) finally got to score in double digits (in 4 attempts). Prior to this edition he scored in double digits in 12 of huis last 15 IPL matches.
4. Chris Gayle (0) was dismissed for his eighth duck in 137 IPL innings. This also is his second golden duck, both against Kolkata Knight Riders, a team he played for few years back as well.
5. Chris Jordan (30) in his first IPL match in this edition top scored for PBKS coming into bat at number 8.
6. Sunil Narine (2-22) has claimed two or more wickets after a dry stretch of 6 matches in which he got only one wicket overall.
7. All Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) bowers who have bowled more than one over got at least a wicket. The exception was Andre Russel, who just bowled one over. Interestingly, he is 7^th among the leading wicket takers in this IPL with 7 wickets.
8. Prasidh Krishna (207 runs) and Pat Cummins (213 runs) became the first bowlers in this IPL to give away 200 or more runs consolidated from all their 6 matches.  However, Prasidh is in the top 10 wicket takers list with 8 wickets, with 3-30 in this match being his best in this edition.
9. Shubman Gill (9) failed to capitalize yet again on a modest run chase as he is the only opening batsman to have played 5 matches or more and scored less than 100 runs overall in the tournament. He has scored just 89 runs in this IPL so far.
10. Sunil Narine (0) registered his 7^th duck in 69 innings in IPL. He has batted in positions 3-5 in his last 5 innings and has combined for just 17 runs, including two ducks.
11. 9 different bowlers from both sides were among the wickets in this match.
12. Eoin Morgan (47*) doubled the total runs he scored so far (45 runs). That leaves Gill as the only top and middle order batsman from KKR to have scored less than 90 runs in this edition so far.
13. KL Rahul (19) has taken 129 deliveries to score 144 runs in his last 4 innings, all opening the batting for PBKS. He still holds the second position among the leading run getters in this IPL.
14. Ravi Bishnoi’s great catch in the match is just his third catch in 16 matches. It also comes after a gap of 13 matches.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 20 Delhi Capitals Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad – April 25, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Sharath

1. Kane Williamson (66*) scored his fourth 50 in 11 innings against Delhi Capitals (DC). He has been unbeaten on four occasions against DC as well.
2. Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) has now won only 1 of their last 6 matches.
3. SRH has now lost 4 of their five games chasing in Chennai.
4. In a day and night game, only Royal Challengers Bangalore has chased 160 to win in Chennai in this IPL.
5. Prithvi Shaw scored his 8^th 50 in IPL and the second of this edition. He also won his third Player of the match award.
6. Shikhar Dhawan (28) continues to be the leading run getter of the tournament with 259 runs.
7. Rashid Khan (1-31) gave away the most runs in his four overs quota in this IPL. Prior to this match, he hasn’t given away more than 24 runs.
8. SRH scored 159 to tie the game before DC won in the super-over. However, only 3 batsmen scored in double digits for that team.
9. Ravichandran Ashwin has gone wicketless in his last four matches and has just 1 wicket in this IPL. He also taken only 5 wickets in his last 10 matches.
10. Avesh Khan on the other hand has been among the wickets for DC with 11 wickets in the tournament and is also the second leading wicket taker overall. Prior to this IPL edition, he was wicketless in his last 6 matches dating back to the 2018 edition.
11. Axar Patel playing in his first IPL match was among with wickets right away claiming 2-26.
12. Amit Mishra’s dismissal of Kedar Jadhav was the 28^th instance of a batsman being dismissed stumped among his 165 wickets. Interestingly, Kedar himself was a wicket-keeper in a match in the 2015 edition and effected a stumping of Amit’s delivery.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 19 Chennai Super Kings Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore – April 25, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Sharath

1. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have won their fourth game in a row and their seventh in their last 10 IPL matches.
2. CSK has now scored in a very tight range of 188 – 191 runs batting first in four of their five matches and won three of them.
3. In 143 innings in IPL, Ravindra Jadeja (62*) registered his highest score. He has scored his only other fifty in the last IPL edition. However, he won his 10^th Player of the match award.
4. AB de Villiers (4)  had to score just 26 runs to become the sixth player to score 5000 runs in IPL but that was not to happen in this game and the wait continues.
5. Faf du Plessis (50) scored his second 50 of the tournament and is now the third leading run getter as well with 214 runs.
6. Suresh Raina (24) since his 54 in the opening game, has scored just 50 more runs in 3 innings.
7. Shardul Thakur (1-11 in 4 overs) had his best match in the IPL so far as he claimed a wicket and had easily the most economical spell of his IPL career spanning 50 matches.
8. Ravindra Jadeja claimed a catch and is now in the second spot for most catches in this IPL with 7 catches behind Shikar Dhawan’s.
9. Harshal Patel (3-50) continues to lead the bowlers list with most wickets so far in this IPL with 15 and holds the Purple cap as well. He has claimed a wicket in all the 5 matches so far.
10. Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) winning streak of 4 matches ends with this defeat. Their last win streak of 5 or more matches was in the 2016 edition.
11.  Deepak Chahar went wicketless in this game and is having a sinusoidal performance in this IPL. He either claims 4 wickets or none in alternate games. He is still the fifth most wicket taker in this tournament.
12. Yuzvendra Chahal broke his 3-match wicket-less streak prior to this game by getting the first CSK wicket of Ruturaj Gaikwad. He is 8^th in the all time IPL wicket takers list among active players.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 18 Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Rajasthan Royals – April 24, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 24, 2021 by Sharath

1. Rajasthan Royals (RR) won just their second win in this IPL edition and improve to sixth in the table
2. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)’s loss in the match extends their losing streak in this IPL to 4 matches now. The loss is also their seventh in their last 10 IPL matches.
3. Mumbai’s Quinton de Kock and Rajasthan’s Manan Vohra (did not pay in this match) are the only opening batsmen who  have scored less than Shubman Gill’s 80 runs in this IPL so far. De Kock and Vohra have both played a match less than Gill.
4. KKR’s skipper Eoin Morgan hasn’t done better either as he has scored just 45 runs in his 5 innings so far. He was dismissed for a duck without facing a delivery, jst his second in his IPL career. He had just two single digit score in the entire 2020 IPL edition while he has three of them already in this edition excluding a duck in this match.
5. Chris Morris (4-23) was able to break into the top 4 leading wicket takers list and took a slot between the Chahar cousins with 9 wickets now. Interestingly, he emulated his all time best from his effort in 2015 but on that occasion, he was playing for KKR against RR.
6. Morris has claimed 4wickets in an innings four times. Interestingly those were 4/23 twice and 4/26 twice each.
7. Sanju Samson’s patient 42 catapulted him to fourth among leading run getters in this IPL. He has a century but still no fifties.
8. KKR’s leading wicket taker in this tournament so far, Andre Russel (7) did not et to bowl in this match.
9. Sunil Narine had yet another wicketless match. He has 6 such instances in his last 10 IPL matches.
10. Eoin Morgan has also lost 5 of his 12 matches as KKR’s skipper.
11. The top five most expensive bowlers of this IPL have all played in this low scoring game. Pat Cummins (182 runs), Prasidh Krishna (177 runs), Mustafizur Rahman (167 runs), Chetan Sakariya (166 runs)  and Chris Morris (162 runs) complete the list.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 17 Mumbai Indians Vs Punjab Kings – April 23, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 24, 2021 by Sharath

1. Punjab Kings (PBKS) got back to winning ways after deciding to chase after winning the toss. PBKS has batted first on all their first four matches and won just once prior to this match. They have now won 6 of their last 12 IPL matches.
2. Ravi Bishnoi (2-21) played his first match in this IPL edition and was among the wickets right away claiming Ishan Kishan’s wicket in the last delivery of his first over.
3. The match had an interesting coincidence of two PBKS bowlers having the exact bowling record at the end of the game. Mohammed Shami and Ravi Bishnoi both finished with 21 runs and 2 wickets with no maidens.
4. Shami, interestingly has claimed 2 wickets for 21 runs in the match against Chennai Super Kings as well. Nicolas Pooran has claimed a catch as part of Shami’s 2-21 in both the matches.
5. Rahul Chahar (1-19) has been among the wickets in his last 4 IPL matches and is now the second highest wicket-taker in this edition with 9 wickets. His cousin has been among the wickets as well this week and is now the third leading wicket taker in the tournament so far.
6. Krunal Pandya (3) has now claimed only 3 wickets in his 5 matches in this tournament. He has claimed only 6 wickets in his last 15 IPL matches as well. He is having a very quiet tournament with the bat scoring just 29 runs. He has also scored just 135 runs in his last 15 innings.
7. Hardik Pandya (1) isn’t faring better either as he is continuing to have poor form with the bat. He has managed just 36 runs in his 5 matches so far in this edition.
8. Mumbai Indians (MI) has been scoring in descending order of total score. Their total score at the end of each of their matches are 159, 152, 150, 137 and 131 in that order. Interestingly, they were able to win their first 3 matches defending a not so high target.
9. Rohit Sharma (63) registered his first IPL fifty of this edition after being dismissed in the forties twice in his last 4 matches. He has now scored just two knocks of over fifty in his last 11 IPL innings.
10. Trent Boult went wicketless for the second straight match. Prior to that, he was among the wickets in 7 consecutive matches in which he has claimed 15 wickets
11. Chris Gayle has played in 137 IPL matches, but has claimed only 28 catches, including two in his last 2 matches. Gayle also scored his best score (43*) in this IPL so far.
12. KL Rahul scored his 24^th IPL 50 and his 9^th in his last 20 IPL matches. He is still catching up on his captaincy record as this is just his 8^th win and has led his team through 11 losses in IPL.
13. KL Rahul (221 runs) and Rohit Sharma (211 runs) are now closer to challenge Shikar Dhawan’s 231 runs for the Orange cap, though Dhawan has played a match less than them.
14. Rohit Sharma (in this match) and Surya Kumar Yadav (in their second match) remain the only half centurions for Mumbai Indians in this tournament so far.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 16 Rajasthan Royals Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore – April 22, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Sharath

1. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has been in a 4-match winning streak for the first time since the 2016 edition.
2. This is the first match in this IPL in which a team won by a 10 wicket margin.
3. Nine of the 16 games in this IPL have been won by teams chasing so far.
4. Glenn Maxwell missed out on challenging for the Orange cap as he didn’t get a chance to bat as RCB didn’t lose a single wicket.
5. Mohammed Siraj has been among wickets every alternate game in his 4 matches in this IPL so far. His 3-27 is the third instance he has claimed 3 or more wickets in his IPL career so far spanning 39 matches.
6. Yuzvendra Chahal (124 IPL career wickets in 103 matches) has gone wicketless in 3 of the 4 matches he has played so far. This is also the first match in this IPL in which he didn’t finish his full quota of overs.
7. Shivam Dube joined Ruturaj Gaikwad (in the previous game for Chennai Super Kings) to get some runs on board. His 46 is not only his best IPL score in 17 innings, but also the first instance in which he scored more than 27 runs, not ideal for a middle order batsman.
8. Manan Vohra (7) continues to struggle as he has scored just 42 runs in his 4 matches.
9. It’s flood or famine for Sanju Samson as he registered his third knock in the twenties in his last 12 innings. In the same timeframe he has scored a century, a half century, 4 single digit scores and a duck.
10. David Miller was dismissed for his third duck in IPL and his second in his last 4 matches. Though he has been dismissed “LBW” in back to back game now, he was dismissed in that mode just 5 times in his 81 IPL innings.
11. Devdutt Padikkal (101*) scored his first IPL ton. He has now scored 610 runs in 18 innings and has 5 fifties as well.
12. Virat Kohli became the first batsman to score over 6000 runs in IPL. He leads the list by a sizable amount of runs as Suresh Raina is 573 runs behind him.