5 records in IPL 2016 which will take some beating
The Indian Premier League has always been a delight to the statisticians for churning out records year after year. The league, which has never been short of high-voltage action and power-packed performances, has become some sort of a trendsetter in the T20 format.
Over the years, we have seen a plethora of T20 records being broken and created in the IPL, day in day out. Such is the unpredictability of the format, that some of the records lasted for a short period of time before getting toppled by another.
This year, it has been no exception. We have seen some unbelievable records being created in the IPL 2016 and we are trying to list 5 of them which will surely take some serious beating if they are to be emulated or toppled.
#5 Best figures in a losing Cause
Playing for Rising Pune Supergiants, the young Australian leg-spinner Adam Zampa took the IPL 2016 by storm when he picked up 6 wickets in the game against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Zampa ran through the SRH team as he produced 4 overs of intelligent leg-spin bowling and restricted them to a score of 137.
However, Zampa’s spell was not enough as his team lost the game by 4 runs and thus made his figures 6-19 the best in a losing cause in any T20 match. The record was previously held by Denmark’s Aftab Ahmed who took 6 for 22 in a game against Papua New Guinea which Denmark lost by 14 runs.
Surely this one will be very hard to emulate as picking up 6 wickets in an innings is considered a rare feat in the T20 format and also there have been only 4 instances when a bowler finished on the losing side despite picking up a 6-for.