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Vivo IPL 2021 Match 43 Rajasthan Royals Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore September 29, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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  1. Evin Lewis scored his third IPL fifty in 19 innings and his first this season.
  2. RCB has won the toss in 6 of the 11 games and have won three out of fur in which they decided to bowl first including this game.
  3. Rajasthan Royals (RR) scored their third fastest 100 (in 11.1 overs) in this IPL.
  4. Evin Lewis 50 of 31 balls is the fastest for RR in IPL 2021, though it’s 22nd in the all-time list for this season.
  5. Riyan Parag (9) was dismissed for a single digit score for the fourth consecutive match. He has accumulated just 93 runs in 10. Innings including six single digit scores and a golden duck.
  6. RR score was 100 at 11.1 overs when Lewis was dismissed. Subsequently they scored just 49 runs in 8.5 overs losing 8 wickets.
  7. Harshal Patel (3-34) is running away with Purple cap with 26 wickets now.
  8. Five of the seven Royal Challengers Bangalore bowlers were among the wickets.
  9. Sanju Samson now holds a wafer thin lead for the Orange cap by 2 runs from Shikar Dhawan.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 42 Punjab Kings Vs Mumbai Indians September 28, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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  1. The loss is Punjab Kings (PBKS) third in its last 5 matches and their seventh in 11 matches.
  2. Hardik Pandya (40*) scored his best of the tournament. Prior to this game, he had scored just 54 runs in 7 innings.
  3. No batsman scored a fifty in this game from both sides. No other batsman except Mayank Agarwal has scored more than fifty in their last four matches
  4. Chris Gayle is uncharacteristically having a subpar tournament and has scored just 193 runs in 10 innings with no fifties.
  5. Trent Boult (0-30) has claimed just 1 wicket in his last 3 matches
  6. Keiron Pollard, who did not bowl in the last match, claimed 2 wickets in just the one over he bowled.
  7. Jasprit Bumrah is continuing to have a good tournament since the re-start in the UAE with wickets in his last 4 matches. He has now risen to third among the leading wicket takers in the tournament with 16 wickets.
  8. Rahul Chahar was back among the wickets after being wicketless for three consecutive games.
  9. Surya Kumar Yadav’s runs drought continues as he was dismissed for a golden duck and has now scored just 102 runs in his last 9 innings.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 41 Delhi Capitals Vs Kolkata Knight Riders September 28, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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  1. The loss is Delhi Capital’s (DC) first in its last 5 matches and just their third in 11 matches.
  2. Tim Southee made his IPL 2021 debut in this game. He is also playing in an IPL match since 2019. He has however claimed just 2 wickets in his last 7 IPL matches including one in this match.
  3. Eoin Morgan’s (0) bad run with the bat continues as he has scored just 99 runs in 9innings including three single digit scores and three ducks.
  4. Shubman Gill (30) still hasn’t scored a fifty in this IPL and has scored just 232 runs in 11 innings at a sub-par average of 21 for an opening batsman.
  5. Varun Chakravarthy has bowled his entire quota of four overs in all the 11 matches he has played and has remained wicketless only on 4 matches including this match.
  6. Venkatesh Iyer in just his fourth IPL match bowled his entire quota of four overs and claimed 2 wickets as well. He has also scored 126 runs as an opening batsman including a 50, in this tourn ament so far.
  7. Avesh Khan (3-13) was among the wickets again and is still the second leading wicket taker in the tourn ament with 18 wickets. His 3-13 is his best in this tournament.
  8. Nine among the 12 bowlers from both sides in the match were among wickets. Those who were not were frequent ticket takers and those won Player of the match award like Varun Chakravarthy (11 wickets) and Axar Patel (9 wickets in 7 matches)
  9. Shikhar Dhawan (454 runs) re-took the lead as the top run getter and got back the Orange cap, which has seen a sinusoidal battle with KL Rahul in the last few days. However, Dhawan has scored only 74 runs in his last 3 innings since the tournament restart in the UAE.
  10. The match witnessed 8 single digits including 3 ducks from both sides.
  11. DC team team did not score any sixes in the entire match, surprisingly for a team with second most wins and scoring 159 runs on an average.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 32 Rajashan Royals Vs Punjab Kings September 21, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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  1. KL Rahul (49) is now tied with Shikar Dhawan for the top run getters list.
  2. Nicholas Pooran’s 32 was his best score in this IPL. He has had a disastrous IPL with 4 ducks and one single digit score prior to this innings.
  3. Kartik Tyagi (2-29) claimed his first Player of the match award despite Arshdeep Singh (5 wickets) and Mohammed Shami (3 wickets) claimed more wickets than him.
  4. Mahipal Lomror (43) made his 2021 IPL debut and scored his runs of just 17 deliveries.
  5. Arshdeep Singh claimed his fIrst 5 wicket haul in IPL. He became the 24th bowler to claim so in IPL.
  6. Riyan Parag has now given away 16 runs thrice in 5 innings that         he has bowled. One two instances, he has given away those runs in just one over.
  7. Except Mayank Agarwal, no other batsman from either side scored a fifty while two batsmen were dismissed for 49.
  8. Mayank Agarwal (67) has now scored 300+ runs in this tournament and is among the top 10 run getters.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 40 Rajasthan Royals Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad September 27, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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  1. Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) won their first game of their 6 last matches. This is also just their second win in 10 matches in this tournament. They won both their matches chasing in the 19th over.
  2. Like the previous match Mahipal Lomror and Sanju Samson were among the double digit run getters for Rajasthan Royals (RR), Yashaswi Jaiswal joined them this match as well. No other RR batsman scored in double digits
  3. Jason Roy not only made his 2021 IPL season debut in this match, but also played his first IPL match since 2018. His 60 is his second knock over 50 and he earned his second Player of the match award as well.
  4. The game witnessed a change at the top of the leading run getters list, with Sanju Samson (82) taking over from Shikhar Dhawan with 433 runs.
  5. Kane Williamson (51*) scored his second unbeaten half century in this tournament and 17th overall in 59 innings.
  6. The match witnessed two batsmen from either sides dismissed for golden ducks (Riyan Parag and Priyam Garg)
  7. RR wins have dried up of late and are sliding down the table with 3 losses in their last 5 matches. They are now tied with four teams with 4 wins and 8 points now.
  8. Sanju Samson becomes the third batsman to join the 400-run club among leading run getters in this IPL.
  9. Except Sanju Samson, no other batsman from both the teams have scored 200 or more runs in this tournament so far.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 39 Royal Challengers Bangalore  Vs Mumbai Indians September 26, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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  1. Mumbai Indians (MI) won now lost all their matches since the tournament restart in the UAE and three of their last 5 matches. The defending Champions are now languishing in the bottom of the table at 7th with 8 points in 10 matches.
  2. Harshal Patel becomes the 17th bowler and the second from Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) to claim a hattrick in IPL.
  3. Harshal now has a commanding lead as the leading wicket taker in this IPL with 23 wickets. His nearest rival is Delhi’s Avesh Khan with 15 wickets.
  4. Jasprit Bumrah has had a good tournament since the re-start in the UAE with 8 wickets in his last 3 matches.
  5. Glenn Maxwell (56) was the top scorer from either side and his half century is his third in his last 10 IPL innings.
  6. AB de Villiers has hit a little bit of a slump scoring just 26 runs in his last 4 innings in IPL.
  7. Trent Boult became the third MI bowler to have given less than 20 runs of his four overs in this IPL, joining Krunal Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah (twice).
  8. Krunal Pandya was the only bowler in the entire game (from both sides) to have bowled all hid 4 overs and not claimed a wicket.
  9. Rohit Sharma (43) has never been dismissed in IPL 2021 for a single digit score or a duck.
  10. Surya Kumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan continue to have a poor tournament. Yadav and Kishan have scored only 102 runs and 107 runs in their last 8 innings, respectively.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 38 Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Chennai Super Kings September 26, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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  1. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) won all their matches since the tournament restart and four of their last 5 matches.
  2. Eoin Morgan (8) continues to have a bad run with the bat as he has scored just 99 runs in 8 innings including three single digit scores and two ducks.
  3. Sam Curran (0-56) became the third most expensive bowler in a match in IPL 2021. He is also the second CSK bowler to register an expensive 4 over spell in a game this IPL after Lungi Ngidi’s 0-62 on May 1 2021 vs Mumbai Indians
  4. Deepak Chahar and Sam Curran were the only bowlers to have not claimed any wickets among the bowler from both sides having bowled at least 3 overs.
  5. Faf du Plessis (43) and Ruturaj Gaekwad (40) extend their stay in the leading run getters list as they both move closer towards the 400-run aggregate.
  6. Rahul Tripathi (45) top scorer in the entire game also        entered toe top 10 run getters list and the first Kolkata Knight Riders batsman to do so as well.
  7. Shubman Gill (9) had yet another low scoring game and has just 202 runs in 10 innings as an opening batsman.
  8. Gill has also scored just 127 runs in 7 innings against CSK in all IPL editions so far.
  9. Shardul Thakur (2-20) has now taken 10 wickets in the tournament including 5 in his last three matches as part of the tournament re-start in the UAE.
  10. Sunil Narine’s 3-41 is his best bowling effort in IPL 2021. He has only 7 wickets in this tournament so far, while he is 8th in the all-time leading wicket takers list in IPL with 134 wickets.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 37 Punjab Kings Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad September 25, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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  1. Punjab Kings (PBKS) won just their fourth of their 10 matches in this edition, while Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) lost their 8th in 9 matches
  2. This is also the third instance of PBKS scoring total runs in the 120-130 range and won for the first time in this IPL edition.
  3. Jason Holder (47 and 3-19) claimed his first IPL Player of the match award, though it was for a losing cause. The bowling effort is also his IPL best
  4. Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Shami and Rashid Khan, all were among wickets to the continue their presence in the top 10 leading wicket takers in IPL 2021.
  5. PBKS also has two batsmen in top 5 run getters list, Rahul (2nd at 401 runs) and Mayank Agarwal (5th at 332 runs).
  6. Ravi Bishnoi (3-24) has now claimed 7 wickets in 5 matches in this edition.
  7. With this result, for the first time since 2015, SRH will not be in the IPL Playoffs

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 36 Delhi Capitals Vs Rajasthan Royals September 25, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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  1. Avesh Khan (1-29) was back among the wickets. He still stands second among leading wicket takers I. this tournament with 15 wickets.
  2. Riyan Parag continues to have an ordinary tournament as an allrounder with just 84 runs in 9 innings and just 1 wicket in 6 overs bowled.
  3. Delhi Capitals (DC) joins Chennai Super Kings (CSK) as the only two teams with 4 wins in their last 5 matches 
  4. Sanju Samson and Mahipal Lomror were the only batsmen to score in double digits for Rajasthan Royals (RR).
  5. Ashwin (1-20) was finally back among the wickets, bt he has taken only two wickets in this tournament so far, despite having a rich overall IPL record of 140 wickets.
  6. Among the 12 wickets that fell in the match 9 bowlers from both sides combined were among the wickets.
  7. Shikhar Dhawan’s single digit score (8) is just his third in 10 innings in this IPL. He was also the only batsman in the DC team dismissed for a single digit score. Though he is still the leading run getter so far in this tournament.
  8. This game breaks the sequence of one bowler (from either sides) claiming more than 2 wickets since the tournament restart in the UAE.
  9. Shreyas Iyer has hit scores in the 40s since his return back to the IPL. He now has 12 IPL scores in the 40s in addition to his 16 50s in 81 innings.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 35 Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Chennai Super Kings September 24, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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  1. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) has now won 4 of their last 5 IPL matches.
  2. CSK’s Faf du Plessis and Ruturaj Gaikwad maintained their presence in the top 10 run getters in this IPL so far. Delhi capitals and Punjab Kings are the other teams that have 2 of their batsmen in the top 10 run getters list.
  3. Suresh Raina came into bat at number 5 only for the third time in eight innings in this tournament. However, he has played maximum number of innings at this position (82) in his IPL career.
  4. Mohammed Siraj has been wicketless for three consecutive matches. He has claimed just 6 wickets in 9 IPL matches so far in this edition.
  5. Harshal Patel (2-25) extends his lead as the leading wicket-taker of the tournament so far with 19 wickets.
  6. Deepak Chahar (1-35) is slowly climbing up the leading wicket takers list after a dry spell. He is now tied jointly with 6 other bowlers with 11 wickets in the tournament so far. This incudes his cousin, Rahul Chahar of Mumbai Indians.
  7. Shardul Thakur was the second most economical bowler for CSK after Player of the Match, Dwayne Bravo. Thakur has been among the most expensive bowlers category giving away as many as 9.6 runs per over.
  8. Virat Kohli (6 furs and 1 six in his 53) has now the dubious record of having hit the least number of sixes among the top 15 run getters of the tournament. Only 5 batsmen among the 15 have hit less fours than him as well.
  9. Dwayne Bravo has now claimed 3 wickets in back-to-back matches. He was wicketless in only 1 of the 6 matches he has played so far in this edition.
  10. Devdutt Padikkal (70) scored his 6th IPL 50. CSK becomes the fifth team he has scored a 50 against now.
  11. Bravo’s Player of the match award is just his fourth in 106 matches and his first outside India in IPL.