IPL 2016, Stats: Faf du Plessiss' innings not enough to hand RPSG a victory against Kings XI Punjab

Hosts Kings XI Punjab beat Rising Pune Supergiants by 6 wickets, and registered their first victory of the tournament.

After winning the toss, Rising Pune Supergiants elected to bat on a hot and sweltering day in Mohali, and in spite of a battling innings by opener Faf du Plessis, Pune never found the desired momentum and the innings just meandered along, and they eventually ended with 152 runs. 

For Kings XI, Mohit Sharma was the pick of the bowlers as he varied his pace and lengths beautifully and sanpped up 3 wickets in his 4 overs giving away only 23 runs.

Murali VIjay and Manan Vohra started off like a train and put up quite a show. Both Vijay and Vohra matched each other with their array of strokes. 

Murugan Ashwin then took 3 wickets and brought Pune back into the match, but it proved to be a too little too late as Glenn Maxwell came out swinging and smashed 32 off 14 balls.

Here are few interesting numbers from the match. 

0 – Number of sixes hit by Rising Pune Supergiants. The score of 152 for 7 is the highest score in the IPL without a six.

1 – First time both KXIP (Vijay and Vohra) openers have scored more than 50 in IPL since 2011. 

2 –  The number of 50s Steven Smith has scored in the IPL. He is the 3rd lowest number for players who have scored more than 1000 runs.

2 –  Only 2 players, Faf du Plessis and Steven Smith had a strike rate in excess of 100 for the Rising Pune Supergiants.

3 –  Thisara Perera became the 3rd player to play for 6 franchises. He has previously played for CSK, KTK, MI, SRH, KXIP and now for the RPS.

32 – This is the highest score of Glenn Maxwell in 7 IPL innings in Mohali. 

42 –  The number of balls Faf du Plessis took to get to his 50. This is the second slowest fifty this IPL, after Aaron Finch scored his half-century of 46 balls against Mumbai Indians.

50 –  Kevin Pietersen became the 50th player to score 1000 IPL runs. He reached the milestone in 35 matches.

100 –  The number of games for Ravichandran Ashwin in the IPL. He has played 97 for the Chennai Super Kings, and 3 so far for the Rising Pune Supergiants.

1004 –  Steven Smith became the 51st player to score 1000 runs. He got to this milestone in 49 matches.

3500 –  Faf du Plessis crosses 3500 runs in T20 cricket. He got to it in 48 matches.