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Vivo IPL 2021 Match 29 Punjab Kings Vs Delhi Capitals May 2, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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Dhawan steers Delhi to another win as Mayank’s 99 goes in vain
  1. Chris Gayle (13) has not scored a 50 yet in this IPL in 8 innings. He has three scores in the 40s. The last time he did not score a 50 in a long stretch of 12 matches was between May 2015 to May 2016, spanning two IPL editions.
  2. Mayank Agarwal (99) almost became the fourth centurion of this IPL, but he could score only 4 of the last delivery of the Punjab Kings (PBKS) innings. This is however his 9th 50 in 89 innings spanning across 10 seasons.
  3. Mayank was also leading a team for the first time in IPL in KL Rahul’s absence. Rahul and Mayank have both combined to lose 13 of their 22 matches as skippers of PBKS now.
  4. Shikhar Dhawan (69*) now has a comfortable lead with 380 runs for the Orange cap. With KL Rau out for some time, his nearest competitor (Faf du Plessis) is 60 runs behind with one less match played though.
  5. Dawid Malan played in his first ever IPL match and scored 26 runs, which is nearly close to Nicolas Pooran’s (the player he replaced) run aggregate in 5 innings in the IPL so far (28 runs).
  6. Rabada (3/36) claimed his best bowling figures in this IPL and has 8 wickets in total in 7 matches. Interestingly, 6 of his 8 wickets were all batsmen being dismissed.
  7. Deepak Hooda ever since he scored the fastest fifty early in this IPL edition (now second fastest) has scored just 52 runs in his following 6 innings.
  8. Avesh Khan (1-39) maintains his second position among leading wicket takers in this IPL so far (joint second with Chris Morris of Rajasthan Royals), still 3 wickets behind Harshal Patel’s 17 for the Purple cap.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 28 Rajasthan Royals Vs Sun Risers Hyderabad May 2, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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Buttler’s ton and Morris’ and Mustafizur’s 3 wickets leaves Sunrisers Hyderabad with one win in their 7 matches
  1. In back to back matches a batsman has scored 8 sixes in his innings (Pollard and Buttler in this match).
  2. Vijay Shankar has had a poor run with a bat and has scored just 58 runs in 5 innings and in this match, he has batted at the highest position of number 4 in this IPL. He has also a poor run with the ball claiming just 3 wickets in this IPL and also going for 42 runs in his 3 overs in this match.
  3. Manish Pandey has top scored for Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) though he just scored 31. It is also the third instance of him top scoring for SRH in this IPL. He was dropped for a match as well.
  4. Rashid khan back to his inexpensive best with just 24 runs of his 4 overs and a wicket that maintains his position in the top wicket takers list with 10 so far.
  5. Jos Buttler scored his first 100 and is now the highest run scorer in a single innings in this IPL. Interestingly, his last 50+score was in the2020 edition, 9 innings prior to this match.
  6. Sanju Samson’s 48 is his third consecutive knock in the forties.
  7. Bhuvneshwar Kumar is back and also what was back was his inability to contain runs in the end overs as he gave away 26 runs (13 each) in his last 2 overs. He started with 11 runs of his first 2 overs. He also went wicketless and is having a poor IPL with just 3 wickets in 5 matches.
  8. Samson (277 runs) and Buttler (254 runs) scored their way into the top 10 run getters in this IPL.
  9. The last two matches saw teams score their total runs in sequential order. CSK scored 218, Mumbai chased to score 219 and Rajasthan Royals batted first and scored 220 in this match.
  10. Chris Morris also became the second leading wicket taker in this tournament with 14 wickets (later Avesh Khan joined him as well). Morris has taken wickets on all but one match he has played in this edition.
  11. Buttler won his seventh Player of the match award in IPL. He has now won this award in 5 consecutive editions starting from 2017.
  12. SRH has now won only one of their 7 matches in this IPL.
  13. Mustafizur Rahman claimed his third 3 wicket haul in 30 IPL matches. He has not got 4 wickets yet in a single match. His other 2 two wicket hauls came in as dated as the 2018 and 2016 IPL editions.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 27 Chennai Super Kings Vs Mumbai Indians May 1, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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Pollard’s knock overpowers Rayudu’s rapid score as Mumbai chases all time second best score in IPL.
  1. Mumbai Indians (MI) have now successfully chased a total of 170+ in two consecutive matches. Their highest score batting first in their previous 5 matches was 159. They won only 2 of those matches.
  2. Keiron Pollard (87*) registered highest ever IPL score after 14 seasons. This knock is however is 16th 50.
  3. Pollard also won his 13th Player of the match award and his second in this edition. The IPL edition in which he won Player of the match on more than one match was in 2013.
  4. Faf du Plessis (50) becomes the second batsman to score 300 runs with 4 fifties and no 100s so far in this edition. He also is in second place for most runs in this IPL now with 320 runs (behind KL Rahul’s 331 runs).
  5. The loss is just Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) second in their last 10 matches. This loss also breaks their 5-match winning streak. However, in terms of all time IPL record, MI has won 20 matches over CSK’s 13.
  6. The Chahar Cousins (Deepak and Rahul) were both wicketless in this match. This breaks Rahul’s streak of being among the wickets in 5 consecutive matches while Deepak has gone wicketless now for 3 consecutive matches.
  7. Ruturaj Gaikwad (4) had his third single digit score game in 7 matches
  8. Jasprit Bumrah was the most economical bowler in this IPL prior to this match and he went for a very expensive 56 runs in his 4 overs with just the wicket of Moeen Ali. He is also fourth on the list of most runs given in a match in this IPL.
  9. The first in the list of most runs given in a match in this IPL is Lungi Ngidi in this match as well, having given away 62 runs of his 4 overs.
  10. In addition to Bumrah and Ngidi, Shardul Thaur’s 56 is joint fourth on that list with Bumrah that ensures the top 5 in that list are from this match. Three CSK bowlers also feature in this dubious list (the other one being Sam Curran’s 58 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders).
  11. Ambati Rayudu (72) scored his first 50 in this IPL in pretty rapid time of 27 balls. He also stands joint third with Deepak Hooda’s for fastest fifties in this IPL (of 20 balls).
  12. Pollard now takes the leading position in that list by scoring the fastest 50 (of 17 balls) in this IPL.
  13. A total of 30 sixes were scored in this match combined by both teams (CSK 16 and MI 14). It also matches the number of boundaries hit by both the teams (swapped here with CSK 14 and MI 16).
  14. Shardul Thakur re-takes the lead from Harshal Patel in the most runs given in this IPL consolidated from all matches with 267 runs in 7 matches. He has also taken just 5 wickets so far.
  15. Pollard becomes only the fourth batsman to score a fifty for MI in this IPL. No MI batsman has scored more than one fifty so far in this edition.
  16. Surya Kumar Yadav (3) has scored just 86 runs in 5 innings since his 56 against Kolkata Knight Riders on April 13th.
  17. The successful run chase in this match is just the second highest all time in IPL and also MI’s first successful run chase of over 200 runs all time.
  18. Rayudu and Pollard had an identical run graph in the match at one stage. Rayudu finished with 72 of 27 balls and Pollard scored his 71 runs of 28 balls.