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Vivo IPL 2021 Match 15 Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders – April 21, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 22, 2021 by Sharath

1. The last Chennai Super Kings (CSK) match witnessed the fastest 100 being scored by a team (CSK) of 11.2 overs. In this game yet again, CSK scored 100 in 11.2 overs, however now Kolkata Knight Riders hold the fastest 100 record of this IPL by scoring that in 10.2 overs in this match.
2. CSK becomes the fourth team (in 3 matches) to score 200+ in this IPL. In all the three matches the team batting first scored the highest runs.
3. Ruturaj Gaikwad (64) finally came to the party after registering just 20 runs in his last 3 innings. Prior to his slump he had three back to back fifties.
4. Faf du Plessis’ unbeaten 95 is his second highest IPL score and second score in the nineties. He also won his fifth player of the match award. He is also fourth among the top run getters list in this IPL with 164 runs.
5. On how many occasions has Suresh Raina did not bat? Just 5 times in his 197 IPL matches. His last “did not bat” instance was in the 2013 edition of IPL.
6.  Shardul Thakur is continuing to be consistent in being way too expensive. He was easily the most expensive bowler in the entire game and also shows up twice in the top 10 most expensive bowlers list for this IPL. He is also second among the bowlers to have given most runs (156), just one run below Prasidh Krishna, who played for KKR in this match.
7. Sunil Narine (1-37) came back into the KKR side for the first time in this IPL.. He also broke the streak of being wicket-less in his last 4 IPL matches.
8. Russell scored his first 50 in this IPL in a typical fashion of just 21 balls, just one ball shy of Deepak Hooda’s record of 20 balls for this IPL. Pat Cummins managed to score his 50 in 23 balls. His 50 is also his ninth in 65 innings and the first in his last 16 innings.
9. The entire CSK team scored 12 sixes, which was matches by just Russell and Cummins alone, both scored 6 sixes each.
10. Pat Cummins’ unbeaten 66 is his second IPL fifty and his IPL career best score. He also gave away 58 runs of his 4 overs.
11. Deepak Chahar was back among the wickets after a blip in the previous match. He had an excellent 4-29 in a high scoring match and is now tied with his cousin, Rahul Chahar of Mumbai Indians in second position among leading wicket takers in this IPl.
12. Three KKR batsmen (Varun, Shubman and Prasidh) were all dismissed for golden ducks. Doesn’t help when chasing a steep target.
13. Ravindra Jadeja claimed a catch and is now the joint leader for most catches in this IPL with Shikar Dhawan.
14. In back to back matches, a CSK bowler has bowled 5 wides, Dwayne Bravo in their last match and Shardul Thakur in this match.
15. Chennai, with their 3 consecutive wins are now topping the table, however this is just their tenth win in their last 20 matches.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 14 Punjab Kings vs Sunrisers Hyderabad – April 21, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Sharath

1. Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s (1-16) last over misery ended as Punjab posted a modest total onboard and he wasn’t required to bowl the last over of his quota. In his last games he was expensive in his last 2 overs in which he gave away 28 runs.  He has also given away exactly 45 runs in his 4 overs in 2 of his 4 games now.
2. Sunriser Hyderabad’s (SRH) Rashid Khan continued his impressive mean bowling streak of conceding just 17 runs in his 4 overs. He continues to lead the most economical IPL bowlers list all time. His 17 runs in this match is the lowest he has conceded in this IPL.
3. David Warner (37) yet again missed an opportunity to retake the third spot in the all-time IPL run getters list as Shikhar Dhawan stays firm there with 5428 runs with Warner 44 runs behind him.
4. Jonny Bairstow (63*) recorded his second fifty in this IPL edition and is now the third leading run getter with 173 runs, still 58 runs shy off challenging for the Orange cap from Shikhar Dhawan. His one catch and one stumping in addition to his knock earned him the Player of the Match recognition as well.
5. Kane Williamson (16*) started in his first IPL game in 2021. He has been unbeaten on 5 of his last 9 innings in IPL now.
6. Nicolas Pooran registered yet another duck, his third in 4 games and this time under unfortunate circumstances of being runout without facing a ball.
7. Chris Gayle was dismissed by Rashid Khan for just the second time. Rashid has now claimed 17 wickets in 9 matches against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in which Gayle became only the fourth lbw victim.
8. PBKS has batted first on all their four games and have just one game so far. Prior to this losing streak, PBKS had won 6 of their last 10 IPL matches.
9. Interestingly, three PBKS bowlers (Allen, Ashwin and Hooda) conceded exactly 22 runs in their 4 overs.
10. Mumbai Indians record of slowest 100 in IPL was broken by PBKS today as they reached a team total of 100 in 16.4 overs. SRH also were slowest compared to Mumbai yesterday but they were cruising at 100/1 in 15.6 overs needing just 21 more runs to win in their remaining four overs

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 13 Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals – April 20, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Sharath

1. Rahul Chahar (1-29) has been among the wickets in his last 3 IPL matches and is now the second highest wicket-taker in this edition with 8 wickets, alongside Delhi Capital’s (DC) Avesh Khan who took 2 wickets in the match.
2. Shikhar Dhawan (45) interestingly was the leading run scorer from both the teams in a match that witnessed 275 runs being scored. He retains the Orange cap as the leading run getter (231 runs in 4 matches) in this IPL edition so far and has a 55-run lead over nearest rival, Glenn Maxwell (176 runs in 3 matches).
3. Now we have no fifties scored in back to back games in this IPL. There were none in the Chennai Super Kings – Rajasthan Royals game yesterday as well. Incidentally this is the second game in this edition involving Mumbai Indians (MI) in which no batsman scored a fifty, the first instance being the tournament opener vs Royal Challengers Bangalore.
4. Rohit Sharma (44) was dismissed in the forties for the second time in 4 matches. He has scored just one fifty in his last 10 IPL innings, which was in the final of the 2020 edition, incidentally against DC.
5. The last time MI met DC, almost the same Mumbai team played except for Nathan Coulter-Nile played in the last edition’s final and Rahul Chahar played in this match.
6. As many as 9 of the 12 bowlers were among the wickets from both teams in the match. Interestingly Ashwin and Boult, who started with the new ball for each side and bowled their full quota of overs went wicketless.
7. Ashwin is going through a lean patch as his wicketless spell extends to just 1 wicket in his last 6 and 6 wickets in his last 11 IPL games.
8. Amit Mishra (4-24) has now claimed four wicket haul four times in IPL. He has one five wicket haul as well.
9. DC becomes the second team to chase a target set by MI in the Chennai MAC stadium in this edition. RCB successfully chased MI’s target in the tournament opener. All other games in this venue have been won by the team batting first.
10. Incidentally 137 has not been a lucky score in this venue as two teams have exactly scored that and ended up on the losing side (MI in this game and Sun Risers Hyderabad in Match 9.
11. Mumbai Indians beat their own record of reaching the slowest 100 runs in this IPL as they took 14.4 overs to reach that in this match.
12. Hardik Pandya (0) is continuing to have poor form with the bat as he was dismissed first ball and has managed just 35 runs in his 4 matches so far in this edition.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 12 Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals – April 19, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Sharath

1. Mustafizur Rahman (0*) came into bat only for the third time in his 27 match IPL career. The last two occasions he batted was both in 2018. He made his IPL debut in the year 2016.
2. Man of the Match Moeen Ali (26 and 3-7) leads the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on both runs scored (108)  and wickets taken (4, jointly with Deepak Chahar) in this IPL so far.  He also holds the maximum sixes hit by a CSK batsman (5), alongside Rayudu and Raina.
3. Ruturaj Gaikwad (10) failed to get a big innings opening the batting yet again but got his first double digit score. He is having a poor series scoring just 20 runs in his 3 innings so far.
4. CSK scored their fastest 100 runs of this IPL in this game, off 11.3 overs.
5. Suresh Raina came into bat with the score at 45/2 and was dismissed with the score at 125/5. He contributed just 18 of the 80 runs that CSK scored while he was at the crease, but he faced just 15 deliveries too.
6. Ravindra Jadeja now holds the record for this IPL for most catches in an innings (4). His 6 catches overall are also second to Shikhar Dhawan’s 7 for the most catches in this IPL.
7. The match also witnessed another fielder (Riyan Parag) claiming 3 catches. He is fourth now on the most catches list in this IPL.
8. Chetan Sakariya is quietly having a good IPL with his IPL career best 3/31 catapulting him to sixth leading wicket taker in this IPL. Interesting all his 6 wickets were batsmen being dismissed caught.
9. CSK got lucky the second time after scoring 188 runs. In their tournament opener, they scored exactly 188 runs that was easily chased by Delhi Capitals. Interesting Kolkata Knight Riders came close and scored 187 against Sunrisers Hyderabad and still won by 10 runs, their only win in the tournament so far.
10. Sanju Samson (1) registered his ninth single digit score in his last 15 innings in IPL. He is also the only centurion in this IPL so far.
11. There were no half centuries by any batsman from both sides in this game. Jos Buttler came close with 49. He has scored 11 fifties in 60 innings so far in IPL.
12. Rajasthan Royals have now only won 4 of their last 10 and just 9 in their last 20 IPL matches.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 11 Punjab Kings vs Delhi Capitals – April 18, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Sharath

1. Mayank Agarwal (69) finally found some runs and in a quick fashion as well in just 36 balls. He now holds the second fastest fifty in this IPL behind his teammate Deepak Hooda. However, he has not been in great form over the last 7 months dating back to last IPL. He has scored only 261 runs in his last 10 innings with just two scored of over 50.
2. Punjab Kings (PBKS) have now lost back to back games but this is only their fourth defeat in their last 10 games in IPL.
3. Shikhar Dhawan (92) has been dismissed for the first time in the nineties in IPL. He has been unbeaten in the nineties on three occasions.
4. Dhawan also went past David Warner and is now third in all time IPL run scorers list with 5383 runs. He is also the second leading scorer of fifties all-time in IPL with 43, behind Warner’s 49.
5. Dhawan also has had great success against the Punjab Kings with one hundred and six fifties (including two scores in the nineties) in 25 matches.
6. Marcus Stoinis picked the right team to get some form as he has scored 163 runs in 5 innings against PBKS at an average of 81.5.
7. Ravichandran Ashwin went wicketless in the game. He has claimed just 1 wicket in his last 5 and 6 wickets in his last 10 IPL games.
8.  Lukman Meriwala claimed his first wicket on debut of Mayank Agarwal with the PBKS score at 122 in 12.4 overs. Since then PBKS could manage only 73 runs in 7.2 overs without much acceleration towards the end having lost just 4 wickets.
9. Four PBKS bowlers feature in  the top 10 most runs given in an innings in this IPL including the most and three in the top 4 so far. Shami is now third on this list after giving 53 runs in his 4 overs.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 10 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders – April 18, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 18, 2021 by Sharath

1. No batsman from the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team scored a 50 in the game, while they scored 166 in total.
2. Harbhajan Singh continued to be the only spinner to have started bowling the first over of every game in this IPL. KKR did open the bowling with spin at both ends in today’ s match.
3. KKR have now lost 7 of their last 11 IPL matches.
4. Glenn Maxwell (78) scored his eight IPL 50 in 85 matches (82 innings) including back to back half tons now. Interestingly those fifties ended his 34 innings drought as his last IPL fifty prior to the last 2 games were in the year 2016.
5. Maxwell and De Villiers who shared a 53-run partnership also scored their respective fifties in a similar fashion, Maxwell scored off 28 deliveries, while De Villiers did score his off 27 deliveries. Both are easily in the top 10 fastest fifties in this IPL.
6. RCB scored from 100 to 200 in just 7.5 overs.
7. RCB has now all their games and top the table so far. Interestingly they have had a poor end to their last campaign losing their last 5 games. This positions them well to win their first ever IPL tournament.
8. Harshal Patel (2-17) leads the bowlers list with most wickets so far in this IPL.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 9 Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings – April 16, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 18, 2021 by Sharath

1. No batsman from the Mumbai Indians (MI) team scored a 50 in the game, Surya Kumar Yadav still remains the only MI batsman to score a fifty in this IPL edition.
2. Mumbai Indians have scored in descending order since the IPL began with totals in their last 3 game being within a tight range of 159, 152 and 150 in that order. Interestingly they won the last two games.
3. Jonny Bairstow (43) had his chance to beat the fastest 50 in this edition (By Punjab Kings Deepak Hooda in 20 deliveries) while he reached 40 in just 15 deliveries. He missed both, to beat the record and also to register his 50. He also missed to take the leading run scorer tag by 28 runs, which was a possibility as he was dismissed in the 8^th over with SRH needing 84 more runs to win at the stage.
4. SRH’s Rashid Khan continued his impressive mean bowling streak of conceding just 22 runs in his 4 overs. He continues to lead the most economical IPL bowlers list all time. Since he didn’t claim any wicket in the game, he is now pushed from third to tenth among the leading wickets takers in this edition.
5. Rashid Khan was not the most economical bowler in this game, it was Bumrah with just 14 runs given from his 4 overs. Bumrah (68) has given just 4 more runs than Rashid Khan (64) in their respective 3 matches so far in this IPL.
6. MI beat their own dubious record of scoring the slowest 100 runs in IPL 2021. However, they keep winning their games despite that.
7. Hardik Pandya (7) is having a poor form with the bat as he has managed just 35 runs in his 3 matches so far in this edition. However, he made his presence in the field by being responsible for two runouts. He has not claimed any catches in this edition as in yet as well.
8. Bhuvneshwar Kumar was once again on the expensive side in his last 2 overs in which he gave away 28 runs.  He has given away exactly 45 runs in his 4 overs in 2 of his 3 games.
9. Rahul Chahar (3-19) continued an impressive week the Chahar cousins are having in this IPL. He has come in to bowl as the fifth or sixth bowler on all the MI games and has claimed 7 wickets (joint highest so far with Harshal Patel) in this edition.
10. This game continued the sequence of too many single digit scores in a game (8). The last 4 games have had a combined 33 single digit scores.
11. Keiron Pollard (35) ended the streak of West Indian overseas players having a bad week with a 22 ball 35 and earning his 12^th Player of the Match award overall in IPL.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 8 Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings – April 16, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Sharath

1. The entire game witnessed just 4 sixes, two each by both the sides.
2. This game continued the sequence of too many single digit scores in a game (7). The last 3 games have had a combined 25 single digit scores.
3. Moeen Ali (46) continued his impressive start for CSK with the second-best score of the match.
4. No batsman scored a fifty in this game, being a low scoring affair, but breaks a 6-match streak of multiple fifties and even a century scored in every game.
5. The Chahars are having a great week. After Rahul’s player of the match performance (4-27) on the 13^th, it was Deepak’s turn today. He claimed 4-13 including four of the top 5 Punjab Kings (PBKS) batsmen.
6. Shardul Thakur (0-35 in 4 overs) was again on the expensive side  conceding close to 9 runs in an over in a game were PBKS scored at 5.3 an over their entire innings. He gave up 53 runs in 3.4 overs in CSK’s first game. Unsurprisingly his IPL career bowling economy rate is over 9 runs an over too in 46 matches.
7. Nicolas Pooran is yet to score in this IPL registering back to back ducks. He has also played just 3 deliveries so far.
8. This week also witnessed all West Indian players failing with the bat across all the teams. This includes Chris Gayle and Nicolas Pooran in this game and Holder, Russell, from earlier this week.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 7 Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals – April 15, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Sharath

1. Rishabh Pant (51) became the third wicket-keeper captain to score a fifty plus knock in this IPL following Rahul and Samson (who scored a 100).
2. No batsman scored a six in the entire Delhi Capitals innings. Of the 7 sixes scored in the match, Morris scored 4 of them, all in the last two overs of their innings.
3. This game broke the single digit score record set in the previous game for this edition. 10 players were dismissed in single digit scores.
4. Rajasthan Royals (RR) also broke the 4 match sequence of the team winning the toss and choosing to field first eventually losing the game. On both their defeats, SRH won the toss.
5. Kagiso Rabada gave 15 runs in his first 3 overs and same amount of runs in his fourth over as the momentum shifted towards RR. Chris Morris scored all those 15 runs as well.
6. Marcus Stoinis (0) has now scored in single digits in 6 of his last 10 innings in IPL. This stretch also includes two ducks including one in today’s game.
7. The last 3 games had a similar run range to chase in the last over (15 for Knight Riders, 16 for Sunrisers and 12 today for the Royals). Royals were the only team to have successfully chased the target. At the start of the last over the chasing team from the two games exactly lost 7 wickets.
8. Jaydev Unadkat won his sixth player of the match award in 11 years of playing in the IPL.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 4 Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals – April 12, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Sharath

1. Deepak Hooda scored a twenty ball fifty, the fastest in this IPL edition so far. Interestingly, his teammate and skipper KL Rahul scored the fastest one of this edition earlier in the game (of 30 balls).
2. Rahul now is now the leading run getter and the first to break the 90 run barrier in this edition. This is also his third knock in the 90s in 72 innings, outside his two centuries. Two of his three knocks in the 90s were scored in the Wankhede stadium, incidentally.
3. Hooda becomes the only batsman to score a fastest fifty in the 2021 edition in the top 100.  fastest fifties in IPL.  The barrier to break is 24 deliveries to get into the top 100 list. PBKS also has 17 fastest fifties in the top 100 all-time IPL list.
4. Punjab Kings (PBKS) becomes the first team to score 200+ runs in this IPL.
5. Rajasthan Royals (RR) skipper Sanju Samson had to use 5 bowlers to finish the last two 4 over quotas.
6. Chetan Sakariya on his IPL debut has claimed 3 wickets and an impressive catch to dismiss Pooran for his second IPL duck in 21 innings.
7. Sanju Samson (119) matched his record 64 ball hundred in the 2019 edition and now has three scores of over 100 among top 60 fastest 100s ever in IPL. Two of his three tons have been on a losing cause, both for the Royals, unfortunately.
8. The match has now witnessed the fastest 50 and 100 of this IPL, both well into the all-time records.
9. As many as 7 players made their debuts for their respective teams in IPL in the match, 4 from RR and 3 from PBKS.
10. PBKS has now lost only once in their last 5 IPL opening games.
11. RR have now lost three of their last 4 IPL opening games including twice to PBKS in this timeframe.