IPL 6: Statistical highlights from the first 10 days
Here are some major milestones achieved in the first 10 days of this Pepsi IPL (3rd April to 12th April)
BATTING:
* Unmukt Chand became the 2nd batsman after Manoj Tiwari (2010) to be dismissed off the first ball of an IPL Season.
* Mahela Jayawardene completed 1500 IPL runs in his 66th match, becoming the 16th batsman to reach this milestone. He now has scored 1571 runs in 69 matches.
* Yousuf Pathan completed his 1500 IPL runs in his 76th match, becoming the 17th batsman to do so. He now has scored 1533 runs in 78 matches.
* Virat Kohli completed 50 Sixes in his IPL career in his 78th match. He is the 14th batsman to reach this in IPL . Currently he has 57 sixes in 81 IPL Matches.
* Chris Gayle completed 150 Fours in his 44th match in IPL. At present, he has hit 164 fours in 47 IPL matches.
* Chris Gayle (92*) and Virat Kohli (93*) became the 15th and 16th batsmen respectively to be stranded on 90s in IPL.
* Chris Gayle became the 2nd highest run scorer in T20 matches, when he overtook David Hussey’s 4821 runs. Now Gayle has 4995 runs in 133 T20 matches. The list is headed by Brad Hodge 5347 runs in 182 T20 matches.
* Chris Gayle received his 13th Man of the Match in IPL career, during his 92* in the opening game for RCB this season. It is the most for any player, followed by Yousuf Pathan’s 12. Gayle grabbed another in the 4th match for his team in this edition, increasing the tally to 14.
* Thisara Perera achieved his career best score of 30* runs in IPL, beating the score of 22 runs in the previous edition.
* Stuart Binny achieved his career best score of 40 runs in IPL.
* Sachin Tendulkar achieved his second Golden Duck in IPL career.
* Manish Pandey and Amit Mishra completed 8 Ducks in IPL and hold the record for Most Ducks in IPL.
* Moises Henriques scored his best score of 44 runs in his IPL Career. His previous best of 30*came in his second game against the Knight Riders in 2009, playing for Daredevils.
* Jacques Kallis scored his 7th Duck. Only Manish Pandey and Amit Mishra have more than him.
* Thisara Perera achieved his career best score of 40 runs vs RCB.
* Dinesh Karthik and Rohit Sharma scored the first 100 runs partnership of IPL 6. They added 132 runs off 79 balls.
* Rohit Sharma hit a six off a free hit ball by Morne Morkel. It was the first six off free hit in IPL 6.
* Rohit Sharma completed his 2000 IPL runs, thus becoming the 4th batsman to reach this after Raina, Gambhir and Sachin.
* Mike Hussey and Murali Vijay became only the second opening pair after Graeme Smith and Swapnil Asnodkar to score 2 century partnerships opening together.
* Mike Hussey scored 86* vs KXIP at Mohali and in 2008 he scored 116* vs KXIP at Mohali. These are his top 2 scores in his IPL career.
* Gautam Gambhir scored his 17th 50 in IPL. Most by any player, followed by Kallis with 16.
* Jacques Kallis became the 5th batsman to complete 2000 IPL runs and the first overseas player to do so. Other 4 are Raina, Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma.
* Chris Gayle hit 9 sixes vs KKR in his 85*, most sixes in an innings by any player vs the Knight Riders in IPL. He overcame his own record of 7 sixes in 2011.
* Robin Uthappa hit a six off a free hit ball by Sreesanth. This is the second six off a free hit in IPL 6.
BOWLING:
* Sunil Narine became the leading wicket-taker for Knight Riders in the opening match, overtaking Lakshmipathy Balaji’s 25 wickets. Now Narine has 30 IPL wickets, all for KKR in 18 games so far.
* Sunil Narine became the 5th bowler to take 3 or more 4 wicket hauls in IPL career after Kumble, Balaji, Malinga and Munaf Patel.
* Jasprit Bumrah’s figures of 3/32 are the second best on debut for MI after Lasith Malinga’s 3/15 vs CSK in 2009.
* Mitchell Johnson and Jasprit Bumrah made their debuts and took their first IPL wickets.
* Dale Steyn took his 8th 3 wicket haul in IPL, when he took 3/11 in the opening game for SRH vs PWI. 3/11 are his second best bowling figures in IPL after 3/8 vs RCB in 2012.
* Amit Mishra completed ten 3-wicket hauls in IPL Career.
* Umesh Yadav took his first 4-wicket haul and his best bowling figures of 4/24 vs RR.
* Kevon Cooper took four 3-wicket hauls in his first 8 matches in IPL.
* Ravichandran completed 50 IPL wickets. Second CSK Bowler after Albie Morkel (69)
* Chris Morris of Super Kings took 2/27 on debut.
* Dwayne Bravo took his third 3-wicket haul, and his 3/27 are his second best bowling figures in IPL.
* Harmeet Singhof Royals made his debut and took his first IPL wicket.
TEAMS:
* RCB won their first IPL game vs MI in Bangalore. Overall their 6th win against MI in 12 games.
* CSK lost only for the second time when MS Dhoni hit a 50. First against RCB in 2011 when he smashed 70*(40)
* RCB vs SRH tied game was the third tied Game in IPL History. Other two are RR vs KKR in 2009 and CSK vs KXIP in 2010.
* PWI lost 11 successive games in IPL (9 in 2012 and 2 in 2013), after winning their first vs RR
* CSK’s win by 10 wickets is the 5th occasion a team has won a match by 10 wickets. (Rain effected matches not included)
* MI posted first total of 200+ runs at Wankhede.
NOTE: Statistics accurate till the first 10 days of IPL 6