IPL 6: Day 28–Goliath(Dhoni) thumps down David this time…
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Last time when these two teams met, to a big surprise Pune defeated CSK, courtesy Steven Smith’s handy knock. Can the history repeat itself. Not really with a kind of form Men in yellow as of now.
Chennai won the toss and decided to Bat first, Lost the openers in quick succession, in form Hussey departed very early, finally giving a chance for Badrinath to bat, He stitched a partnership with Suresh Raina and gave CSK a solid platform for the skipper Dhoni to unleash himself in the last 5 overs and he just killed PWI by scoring 45 of 16 balls to end the CSK innings with 164/3 in 20 overs. PWI never looked like they are going to chase this score stated losing wickets in heaps, they lost top 4 in no time and 6 down in 9 overs summed up the whole game. Mohit Sharma bowled well to pick 3 crucial top order wickets. As always Steven Smith was the only man who tried to put a fight, but too much for him to handle.
Chennai Super Kings won the match by 37 runs…
Standings as on DAY 28:
Interesting Stats IPL 6 Day 28:
– Mohit Sharma now has 9 wickets in the powerplay overs, most by any bowler for this season, followed by Johnson & Bhuvaneshwar Kumar at 7.
– Ravindra Jadeja bowled the first no ball in his IPL career, previous to that ball he has bowled 774 balls in IPL.
– It is also the first time Jadeja has opened the bowling for any team in IPL.
– Steven Smith crossed 500 IPL runs today, becomes the third one to cross without scoring a fifty in the total runs scored. Other two were Jadeja & Nayar.
– Suresh Raina scored his 16th IPL fifty, which is also his second slowest which came off 42 balls.
– Raina & Badrinath now has 8 fifty partnership between them.
– Hussey dismissal in 5 runs is the lowest score he has been dismissed for this season.
– MS Dhoni scored the 350th six for this season.
– Bhuvaneshwar Kumar bowled the 24th Maiden of this season.
– CSK have won 6 games on a trot now on this season of IPL.
– A victory by 37 runs for CSK against PWI is the highest for them, previous best was 25 runs in 2012.
At the end of DAY 28 in IPL 6:
Total no. of Boundaries – 1149
Total no. of Sixes – 356
Longest Six – 119 Meters by Chris Gayle against PWI.
Most no. of Fours – Mike Hussey (52) followed by Gayle (43)
Most no. of Sixes – Chris Gayle (36) followed by Rohit Sharma (23)
Orange Cap – Chris Gayle (484) followed by Mike Hussey (450)
Purple Cap – James Faulkner (16) followed by Dwayne Bravo (16)
Best Batting Performance: Chris Gayle 175*(66)
Best Bowling Figures – James Faulkner (5/20 Vs SRH)
Most Dot Balls Bowled – Dale Steyn (110) followed by Bhuvaneshwar Kumar (108)
Fastest Ball of IPL 6 – Shaun Tait (153.43 KMH) followed by Dale Steyn (152.48KMH)
Fairplay Award – Rajasthan Royals.
~rams~
IPL 6: Day 27–Beauty & Blistering, Samson & Rohit Sharma respectively…
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Back to Back double header for 3 days in a row now. You tend to feel bored, You shouldn’t be, Because IPL just gave two of their best games on a Monday and that in a month end. Have to feel sorry for those who definitely missed it.
Game 1, RCB looking to pluck their away game losing streak in Jaipur, but before that Dravid won the toss and decided to field first. As always Gayle gave a brisk start, but Middle order of RCB didn’t capitalise much on it. Kohli, Henriqures & ABD played a kind of slow innings compared to their standards. But Vinay Kumar’s three sixes in the last over kept RCB over the par score. 171/6 in 20 overs. Dravid & co started the chase, but this time it was another Master stroke from the Skipper, brought Sanju Samson, 18 years of age young lad first down. he showed class in pull, elegance in inside out’s and innovation in Dilscoop. Still he departed after a good Maiden IPL fifty, Watson and Binny with last stroke ensured Royals fortress remained unconquered and RCB will have their fourth away game losses in a row now.
Rajasthan Royals won the match by 4 wickets with 1 ball to spare…
Game 2, Mumbai takes on KXIP, Gilly decided to sit and came in skipper David Hussey, Rohit sharma who won the coin decided to bat first, as he decided, it looked like his sole responsibility to get Mumbai to a decent score, which he did fantastically by scoring 79 runs of 39 balls. Other Mumbai players stayed to support him, which meant Mumbai made 174/3 in 20 overs. Chasing started wayward, as KXIP lost two of the good players cheaply, Hussey & Marsh who got it first game tried his best to up the antic, before big man from Caribbean again pull out a one hand blinder to send March on his way back. Stiller Miller & Praveen Kumar played their parts to get close as much possible, but in the end 27 runs from David Hussey in last over made difference.
Mumbai Indians won the match by 4 runs…
Standings as on DAY 27:
Interesting Stats IPL 6 Day 27:
– Ajit Chandila’s first over went for 13 runs highest for him in this season.
– Sreesanth & Ravi Rampaul bowled the 22nd & 23th Maiden of this season.
– This is 17th time Sreesanth gone more than 15 runs in an over in his IPL career.
– 0/38 by Ajit Chandila is the most expensive over in his IPL career.
– Abhinav Mukund made his IPL debut, after playing with CSK for three years, now he gets his first game for RCB after getting picked last year.
– Virat Kohli reached 2000 runs in his IPL career; he is the ninth batsmen to do so.
– 22 runs conceded by James Faulkner in the last over, is the highest he has ever conceded in his T20 career.
– 63 runs scored by Sanju Samson is his highest score in a T20 game, bettering his previous best 41*.
– Sanju Samson became the youngest player to score a fifty in a IPL tournament, he is 18 year old.
– David Hussey became the third batsmen to score 5000 runs in T 20, after Brad Hodge & Chris gayle.
– David Hussey’s last over went for 27 runs which is highest for this season, Rohit Sharma was the tormentor.
– 19th Fifty scored by Rohit Sharma equalled the highest no. of fifties scored in IPL with Gambhir.
– Rohit Sharma became the third batsmen to hit 100 sixes in IPL career.
– Kieron Pollard now has 50 IPL sixes to his name.
– There was 2 sixes scored of Malinga today, Which is also the first occasion in this season he has conceded a six.
– Now IPL has 500 fifties including the latest by David Miller.
– 14 runs conceded by Harbhajan in his 4 over spell is the most economical in his IPL career.
– Gayle scored the 1100th boundary for this season of IPL.
– In today’s both the matches first innings had three sixes scored in the last over of their match, which propelled their team score over 170+. For RCB it was Vinay Kumar & MI it was their skipper & Birthday boy Rohit Sharma. Ironically one ended on a winning side and the other on the losing note.
At the end of DAY 27 in IPL 6:
Total no. of Boundaries – 1127
Total no. of Sixes – 347
Longest Six – 119 Meters by Chris Gayle against PWI.
Most no. of Fours – Mike Hussey (51) followed by Gayle (43)
Most no. of Sixes – Chris Gayle (36) followed by Rohit Sharma (23)
Orange Cap – Chris Gayle (484) followed by Mike Hussey (445)
Purple Cap – James Faulkner (16) followed by Sunil Narine (15)
Best Batting Performance: Chris Gayle 175*(66)
Best Bowling Figures – James Faulkner (5/20 Vs SRH)
Most Dot Balls Bowled – Dale Steyn (110) followed by Bhuvaneshwar Kumar (99)
Fastest Ball of IPL 6 – Shaun Tait (153.43 KMH) followed by Dale Steyn (152.48KMH)
Fairplay Award – Rajasthan Royals.
~rams~
IPL 6: Day 26–Its Mr.Cricket for CSK & Warner for Delhi…
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Double header to kill the time in a Sunday…
First Game, Game of heavyweight’s Chennai taking on Kolkata, Gambhir won the coin and strangely decided to field first, Which helped Dhoni & Men to salve themselves from the scorching sun and make KKR pay for their mistake. Mr Cricket does it again & again for CSK. Today with another breath taking 95 runs in sapping conditions, well supported first by Saha (who got the chance because Vijay is injured) then later by Raina. As always Dhoni finished up the innings in style to post their highest score for the season. CSK ended up with mammoth 200/3 in 20 overs. Chasing almost 10 runs an over, KKR got a delicious first over from rusty Nannes who gave 14 runs away as freebies, not only that today, CSK totally looked awkward in fielding & bowling except for one or two overs. Thanks they had enough runs on the board to save themselves from the mistakes. Bisla’s monumental effort almost gave KKR the victory before Huss Monster shacked the stumps to break the hopes of KKR. A good last over from Morris ensured CSK won the match finally. They chase or defend, it doesn’t count, one thing for sure is Last over & tense moments, where CSK will emerge victorious.
Chennai Super Kings won the match by 14 runs…
Second game battle for wooden spooner’s as the last two team in the table fight out their last position to rise over the above. Everyone of the Delhi batsmen had a start but as it was the case in the tournament, failed to convert it, And again Warner played a important knock of 51 from 25 balls to put Delhi at a comfortable zone of 164/5 in 20 overs. Pune started off well, thanks to poor fielding efforts from Delhi, Finch & Uthappa made 37 runs each before getting dismissed in the same over, which opened the back door Delhi and they started sneaking past slowly & steadily, Luke Wright also helped their course with poor batting. Finally Delhi just moved up the ladder a touch up to end up at 8th position in the Standing list.
Delhi Daredevils won the match by 15 runs…
With Tournament almost half way through, from now on it becomes necessary to keep a note on Standings, So here they are…
Standings as on DAY 26:
Interesting Stats IPL 6 Day 26:
– Wridhimaan Saha scored the 300th Six of this season.
– Suresh Raina picked up his 100th Six in his IPL Career; he is also the second in all time highest in IPL. List is topped by Gayle with 164 sixes.
– CSK now has 4 scores by their batsmen from 90 to 99. In those Hussey has two of them.
– This is second time by Kallis conceding 50 runs in an innings.
– 1/35 by Sunil Narine is the costliest spell for this season.
– CSK now has 5 century opening stands, latest one is between Saha & Hussey worth 103 runs. Only Rajasthan royals have 6 opening century stands.
– Hussey scored his 10th IPL fifty.
– 67 runs scored in Powerplay overs by CSK is the highest for this season, and their all time best is 68 runs.
– 200+ runs have been chased 4 times in IPL history so far.
– 12 extras in the Nannes first over is the most conceded in an over, previous was also 12 runs conceded by same team CSK.
– 130 runs scored in power play overs between CSK & KKR is the highest in a match for this season. (67 by CSK & 63 by KKR)
– 0/50 runs conceded by Dirk Nannes is the most expensive spell in his IPL career.
– 92 runs scored by Bisla is the best for him in his IPL career, bettering 89 he scored against the same team in the same venue last year in IPL finals.
– 351 runs scored between Yuvraj & Uthappa is the most by any pair so far in this season of IPL.
– Robin Uthappa played out the 4th Maiden of this season, which equals with Chris Gayle who also played 4 maidens so far.
– Irfan Pathan bowled the 21st Maiden of this season and personally 10th in his IPL career. Only Praveen Kumar is ahead of him with 12 Maidens.
– 63 runs scored by Delhi in the last five overs is the highest for them for this season.
– Fifty scored by David Warner in 24 balls is the fastest for him in his IPL career.
– Bhuvaneshwar Kumar has now taken 7 wickets within the powerplay overs, highest by any bowler for this season.
– Michael Hussey scored the 4th fifty of this season highest by any player, followed by Gambhir with 3 fifties.
– Michael Hussey also became the first player to score 50 boundaries for this season; he now has 51 to his name, followed by Gambhir with 40.
– CSK conceded 20 extras in today’s match against KKR, highest ever by any team for this season, the next worst by RCB who gave 16 runs against the game of Rajasthan royals.
At the end of DAY 26 in IPL 6:
Total no. of Boundaries – 1071
Total no. of Sixes – 319
Longest Six – 119 Meters by Chris Gayle against PWI.
Most no. of Fours – Mike Hussey (51) followed by Gambhir (40)
Most no. of Sixes – Chris Gayle (35) followed by Rohit Sharma (17)
Orange Cap – Chris Gayle (450) followed by Mike Hussey (445)
Purple Cap – James Faulkner (16) followed by Sunil Narine (15)
Best Batting Performance: Chris Gayle 175*(66)
Best Bowling Figures – James Faulkner (5/20 Vs SRH)
Most Dot Balls Bowled – Dale Steyn (110) followed by Bhuvaneshwar Kumar (99)
Fastest Ball of IPL 6 – Shaun Tait (153.43 KMH) followed by Dale Steyn (152.48KMH)
Fairplay Award – Rajasthan Royals.
~rams~
IPL 6: Day 25–Fiery Faulkner & Muscly Smith does it…
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Double Header Weekend is back…
First Game, Rajasthan made it much more simpler than I could right here… Faulkner, Chandila & Cooper bowled excellently to reduce SRH to 29/6 in 6 overs after choosing to bat first. Just when they thought SRH may not even cross fifty, Thanks again to Mishra & Darren Sammy who played the game of his life to bring them back in game with his hard fought 60 runs. SRH finished at 144 runs, more than they should have actually got for a kind of start they had. Rahane didn’t make much impression but Skipper & Binny played a supporting role to One Man Army Watson to score 98* blistering runs to win the match in ease.
Rajasthan Royals won the match by 8 wickets with 13 balls to spare…
Second game, If i just said first was no contest, this was quite a contest till Gayle was dismissed, then one word Dismal… Mumbai started off with a blast, Pollard, Karthik & Bhajji in the end made sure Mumbai got to a highest score against RCB 194 runs in 20 overs. Then began the real Battle, walked in the Predator with his heavy swing arms, but Mitchell Johnson & Malinga were on par with their bowling skills to keep him in the Bay, But it was the Turbanator who picked up the Predator. Once he left, procession followed and in the end 8th wicket partnership between Ravi Rampaul & Vinay Kumar reduced the deficit by 51 run partnership, which made sure RCB went on to lose their 3 away game as well.
Mumbai Indians won the match by 58 runs…
Interesting Stats IPL 6 Day 25:
– 20 runs scored in Ishant’s 3rd over was the expensive for this season and his 2nd expensive one overall.
– Watson’s fifty of 39 balls is the slowest among the 10 IPL fifty he has.
– 53 runs scored in first ten overs by Royals is the lowest for this season.
– Now Sangakarra has 34 catches behind the stumps, he shares the second position with Dhoni now. List is topped by Gilchrist with 47 catches.
– This is 11th time Royals have chased down a score more than 145 runs ot of 24 times they have been asked for.
– 7th, 8th and 9th wickets for Sunrisers scored 115 runs in the game against Rajasthan which is the highest for Sunrisers for these wickets.
– 5/20 by James Faulkner is the best performance for him in IPL career. It is also the best bowling figures for this season of IPL bettering Sunil Narine’s 4/13.
– 60 runs scored is the highest score for Darren Sammy, previous was 41*.
– This is 7th time for the 7th wicket partnership has crossed fifty runs in IPL career.
– 29/6 is the second lowest score by any team in IPL so far, List is topped by Kochi’s 11/6. Ironically that has also happened exactly on the same day 27th April.
– Rajasthan Royals now have a record of 20-9 win Vs loss record in Sawai Mansingh Stadium.
– 2/21 by Harbhajan Singh is the best spell for this season.
– Gayle has never scored a Six against Slinger Malinga and till now he has faced 44 balls from him.
– 194 runs scored by Mumbai Indians is their best score against RCB in all seasons, their previous best was 191 runs.
– Rayudu becomes the 4th batsmen to be dismissed for Diamond Duck, the other three were Kallis, Gony & Mishra.
– 1/43 by Syed Mohammed is the most expensive spell by him in all the ten IPL games.
– RCB have won all the three games against Mumbai when they played in Wankade, and finally today Mumbai pulled one back.
– RCB has lost all the three away games played this season, Chennai & Hyderabad & now Mumbai.
– A Victory by 58 runs for Mumbai against RCB is the highest for them in the IPL career.
– Vinay Kumar scored the 1000th Boundary of this season of IPL.
– James Faulkner also now holds the purple cap with 16 wickets, followed by Sunil Narine with 14 wickets.
– Dale Steyn bowled the 20th Maiden of this season.
At the end of DAY 25 in IPL 6:
Total no. of Boundaries – 1001
Total no. of Sixes – 299
Longest Six – 119 Meters by Chris Gayle against PWI.
Most no. of Fours – Mike Hussey (40) followed by Gambhir (37)
Most no. of Sixes – Chris Gayle (35) followed by Rohit Sharma (17)
Orange Cap – Chris Gayle (450) followed by Mike Hussey (350)
Purple Cap – James Faulkner (16) followed by Sunil Narine (14)
Best Batting Performance: Chris Gayle 175*(66)
Best Bowling Figures – James Faulkner (5/20 Vs SRH)
Most Dot Balls Bowled – Dale Steyn (110) followed by Ishant Sharma (89)
Fastest Ball of IPL 6 – Shaun Tait (153.43 KMH) followed by Dale Steyn (152.48KMH)
Fairplay Award – Rajasthan Royals.
~rams~
IPL 6: Day 24–Kallis’s all round effort gets KKR home…
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Just a game today, Not much fuss about it though, Both the teams hovering around in the middle and bottom of the table trying to fight their way out of threshold. KXIP started much better for the first time in this season, Gilly looked like he was striking form before he was dismissed. Mandeep, Vohra, Hussey & in the last Gurukreet played their part as well with one last good over by Gurukreet made sure, KXIP finished at 149/ in 20 overs. KKR started off in a shacky fashion as they lost inform Skipper and out of form Yusuf in the very next deliveries n the 2nd over. But its again the old veteran Kallis who stayed along with Bisla to made sure he had a 60 runs partnership to bring the innings in track, later Kallis departed but quick fire Morgan ensure momentum was kept with the required run rate to help KKR safely pass through the winning line.
Kolkata Knight Riders won the match by 6 wickets with 10 balls to spare…
Interesting Stats IPL 6 Day 24:
– Sachitra Senanayake bowled the 19th maiden of this season.
– This is also the first time Gilchrist has fully played out a Maiden in his IPL career.
– 45/0 at the end of powerplay overs by KXIP is the first time they haven’t lost a wicket in powerplay overs but ironically they lost their first wicket on 6.1 overs.
– Sarabjit Ladda picked up Miller wicket today, which came after almost 3 years. He played in 2010 IPL and then now he is playing and picking a wicket.
– 0/29 by Senanayake is the first wicketless spell by him in this season of IPL.
– 8 runs scored by Gambhir is the first score of this season, where he has scored less than 20 runs.
– Chawla became the first spinner to concede 2000 IPL runs in his IPL career. He is also the fourth bowler to do so.
At the end of DAY 24 in IPL 6:
Total no. of Boundaries – 937
Total no. of Sixes – 281
Longest Six – 119 Meters by Chris Gayle against PWI.
Most no. of Fours – Mike Hussey (40) followed by Gambhir (37)
Most no. of Sixes – Chris Gayle (34) followed by Rohit Sharma (17)
Orange Cap – Chris Gayle (432) followed by Mike Hussey (350)
Purple Cap – Sunil Narine (14) followed by Amit Mishra (14) & Dwayne Bravo (14)
Best Batting Performance: Chris Gayle 175*(66)
Best Bowling Figures – Sunil Narine (4/13 Vs DD)
Most Dot Balls Bowled – Dale Steyn (94) followed by Bhuvaneswar Kumar (86)
Fastest Ball of IPL 6 – Shaun Tait (153.43 KMH) followed by Dale Steyn (152.48KMH)
Fairplay Award – Rajasthan Royals.
~rams~
IPL 6: Day 23–Captain Cool does it again & again & again for CSK…
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Its a typical CSK screenplay written game for Chennai Ground. Opposition has a bad start, then in the death CSK bowlers will lose the plot to concede more runs in last, then CSK follows up with a blistering opening partnership, Few quite overs and fall of wickets at wrong time, take the required run rate up to 12 runs per over possible even higher, then as always there will be Captain Cool who will finish the match in the last over with a hit to fence.
Nothing much changed, Sunrisers got to a poor start as they were 61/4 in 10 overs, then late surge by Dhawan & Ashish Reddy made sure SRH scored 159/6 in 20 overs. CSK with the help of Hussey & Vijay got a start of 65 runs in 7 overs. Then came the quite overs and fall of wickets of Hussey, Raina & Bravo. Required run rate was close to 12 runs when Bravo was out, As per the script Dhoni stayed till the end to finish the match with a six & followed it by couple of boundaries to win the match for CSK.
Chennai Super Kings won the match by 5 wickets with 2 balls to spare…
Interesting Stats IPL 6 Day 23:
– Karan Sharma’s spell of 4-1-8-0 is the most economical spell bowled for this season.
– Karan Sharma bowled the 18th Maiden of this season.
– Raina became the first batsmen to score 1000 runs in their Home ground (Chennai), Gayle has 968 runs in Bangalore.
– 65 runs partnership between Vijay & Hussey is the tenth time this pair has gone past 50 runs partnership, joint highest with Gayle & Kohli.
– 58 runs scored in power play overs by CSK is the joint highest for them this season, they scored same numbers against RR.
– MSD scored his 11th IPL Fifty and also gone past 2000 runs in his IPL career.
– This is the first time Dwayne Bravo dismissed Darren Sammy in a T20 international.
– 59 runs scored by SRH in the last four is the highest ever for them in IPL career.
– Two boundaries scored of Ashwin’s last over is the first of the kind for this season for him.
– It is fifth time Dhoni has finished an innings on the wining note out of 6 times he has remained not out while chasing in IPL career.
– With 3 wickets to his name to Amit Mishra, Now he is the joint highest wicket taker with Malinga with 88 wickets to name.
– Three sixes conceded by Steyn in his 4 overs is the first time in IPL career.
– 1-45 by Dales Steyn is the second most expensive spell in IPL, and 4th in his T20 career.
– Out of 6 games Chennai have won, 4 have been completed in the last over.
– Dwayne Bravo picked up his 10th Catch for this season highest by any player in IPL 6, followed by Ashish Reddy with 7.
– There was an incident, Where 8 runs required of 4 balls and Ashish Reddy bowled a wayward delivery which went for a wide boundary, that’s what umpire said so. But Dhoni straightaway went up to him and said, he nicked the ball, then umpire turned down his wide signal and gave it as four runs of the bat. Captain cool certainly earned some points in Fairplay for his team.
At the end of DAY 23 in IPL 6:
Total no. of Boundaries – 908
Total no. of Sixes – 270
Longest Six – 119 Meters by Chris Gayle against PWI.
Most no. of Fours – Mike Hussey (40) followed by Gayle (35)
Most no. of Sixes – Chris Gayle (34) followed by Rohit Sharma (17)
Orange Cap – Chris Gayle (432) followed by Mike Hussey (350)
Purple Cap – Sunil Narine (14) followed by Amit Mishra (14)
Best Batting Performance: Chris Gayle 175*(66)
Best Bowling Figures – Sunil Narine (4/13 Vs DD)
Most Dot Balls Bowled – Dale Steyn (94) followed by Bhuvaneswar Kumar (86)
Fastest Ball of IPL 6 – Shaun Tait (153.43 KMH) followed by Dale Steyn (152.48KMH)
Fairplay Award – Rajasthan Royals.
~rams~
IPL 6: Day 22– Dwayne’s Special gift on Master’s B’day…
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A Day the Whole nation was celebrating the not because of this match, Its is because of the Master who has been regarded as God of Cricket celebrating his 40th birthday today but still young as ever. 
Right coming to context, It’s East Vs West or to say Mumbai Vs Kolkata in Eden Gardens. Rain gods, finally waved hands to see a game, which had a delayed start of 30 mins, without any loss in the overs. KKR won the toss and decided to bat first, Started of in a blistering fashion, Mumbai tied up in the later overs and finally late surge from Tiwary & Morgan made sure KKR got 159 runs in 20 overs. In came the Bday boy along with Dwayne Smith for the chase,but to all disappointment he went back for just 2 runs seeing his middle stumps rooted by a vicious turner from Sunil Narine. Dwayne kept the runrate in check with lusty blows here & then. After his departure, Rohit & Pollard kept the chase going with thirties to their names, but when both departed and Mumbai need 10 runs in the last over, It is Singh is King Harbhajan who delivered the much needed killer Blow of six to win the game for Mumbai.
Mumbai Indians won the match by 5 wickets with 1 ball to spare…
Interesting Stats IPL 6 Day 22:
– 4 Sixes Conceded by Sachitra Senanayake is the highest no. of sixes conceded by him in a T20 game.
– Dwayne Smith scored 500 runs in his IPL career.
– Dinesh Karthik scored his 150th Boundary in his IPL career; list is topped by Virender Shewag.
– KKR has a very dubious record of losing 9 out of 11 games played against MI in the IPL history including the game tonight.
– Till today, most conceded by Harbhajan against KKR is 26 runs, ironically, those were scored in the very first over itself.
– 46 runs scored by KKR in the first three overs is the highest for this season.
– Rohit Sharma has captained only 4 domestic games and this is his Maiden captain stint in his IPL career.
– This is third game Sachin has played on his birthday, first occasion was in Sharjah & secondly was in 2011 in an IPL game and now the third.
– Manoj Tiwary scored the 250th Six of this season.
– 12 out 17 times Balaji has gone less than 8 runs when he bowled the penultimate over.
– This is third time Sunil Narine has picked 3 or more wickets in this season of IPL.
At the end of DAY 21 in IPL 6:
Total no. of Boundaries – 876
Total no. of Sixes – 260
Longest Six – 119 Meters by Chris Gayle against PWI.
Most no. of Fours – Mike Hussey (35) followed by Gayle (35)
Most no. of Sixes – Chris Gayle (34) followed by Rohit Sharma (17)
Orange Cap – Chris Gayle (432) followed by Virat Kohli (333)
Purple Cap – Sunil Narine (14) followed by Vinay Kumar (13)
Best Batting Performance: Chris Gayle 175*(66)
Best Bowling Figures – Sunil Narine (4/13 Vs DD)
Most Dot Balls Bowled – Bhuvaneswar Kumar (86) followed by Dale Steyn (85)
Fastest Ball of IPL 6 – Shaun Tait (153.43 KMH) followed by Dale Steyn (152.48KMH)
Fairplay Award – Rajasthan Royals.
~rams~
IPL 6: Day 21–Gayle’s Day in record books & Harmeet Singh also won MOM…
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Double header on a Tuesday, Not many would want it, Unless they are willing to see the fireworks of Chris Gayle.
First Game, Had one name to be written, Just CHRIS GAYLE… One man literally played against 11 Pune players and won the game hands down. Records kept tumbling as Gayle kept swinging his bat (all those tumbled records are listed below). Ballistic Gayle went on to score 175 runs in 66 balls, which had 13 fours, 17 sixes & 18 dot balls. Other played the second fiddle around him, RCB ended with the highest T20 score 263/5 in 20 overs. PWI played their 20 overs trying to reduce their deficit of defeat, and ended up scoring 133 runs, leaving them just sort of 130 runs from the target. A point to note, Gayle also picked 2 wickets in the only over he bowled.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the match by 130 runs…
Second Game, After having a Power packed, you can’t eclipse the effort of calypso, So it was always a dull game, where people relived the moments of glory of Chris Gayle and in between there was a match between Delhi & Punjab. Delhi batted first, back to square one as they were in the tournament till the last game, lost wickets to poor shots and poor batting efforts to sum Delhi’s score of 120 in good batting track. KXIP started off the chase in a flyer and kept the chase going even though wickets are falling every now & then. But in the end they chased it with 3 full overs to spare.
Kings XI Punjab won the match by 5 wickets with 18 balls to spare…
Interesting Stats IPL 6 Day 21:
– Records tumbled as Man from Caribbean took a big page on the record book, Read what all he has rewritten in the books of record.
· Fastest Individual Fifty in IPL scored in 17 balls.
· Fastest Individual Century scored in a T20 international scored in 30 balls, bettering 34 balls century of Andrew Symonds and for IPL it is 37 ball century by Yusuf pathan.
· Longest Six scored which went 119 meters bettering 112 meters also by Gayle.
· First player to hit 150 sixes in IPL tournament.
· Best Opening Partnership for IPL ever, 167 runs bettering 163 runs between Dwayne Smith & Sachin Tendulkar.
· Fastest Team Hundred in IPL history scored in 7.5 overs.
· Most sixes hit (17) by any batsmen in a T20 international, Previous best was by Graham Napier for Essex against Sussex hitting 16 sixes.
· 175 runs scored is the highest score in a T20 International by an individual batsmen, he bettered 158 runs by Bredon McCullum in IPL season 1 against RCB.
· Highest total in a T20 International game bettering 260 scored by Srilanka against Kenya, and 246 scored by CSK against RR in IPL career.
· Gayle is the only player to have scored four centuries in IPL career.
· Gayle is also the only player who has scored most runs in a ground, he has scored 1220 runs in Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore, bettering Hamilton Masakadza scored 1202 runs in Harare in T20s
· 192 runs scored in Boundaries & Sixes is the highest ever in a T20 international.
· 154 runs out of 175 scored by Gayle came of boundaries & Sixes
· 21 sixes scored by RCB is the highest ever by any team in an IPL game.
– Chris Gayle also scored the 800th Boundary of this season.
– RCB have won all the 6 games played in Home ground till today for this season.
– 130 runs victory by RCB is the second largest in the IPL history, first is by RCB who lost the match by 140 runs against KKR in the first season.
– This is third game in IPL won with a margin more than 100 runs.
– Fifty scored by KXIP in 4.3 overs is the fastest for this season.
– Irfan Pathan became the second all rounder to score 1000 runs & to pick 50 wickets in his IPL career.
– Parvinder Awana & Roelf Van de Merwe bowled the 16th & 17th Maiden’s of this season.
– Game won by 18 balls to spare by KXIP against Delhi is the highest ever in all the seasons.
– Roelf Van de Merwe bowled his first ever Maiden in his IPL career.
– After 6 games which was won by chasing on a trot, finally Gayle broke the shackles by winning the match Batting first.
At the end of DAY 21 in IPL 6:
Total no. of Boundaries – 852
Total no. of Sixes – 247
Longest Six – 119 Meters by Chris Gayle against PWI.
Most no. of Fours – Mike Hussey (35) followed by Gayle (35)
Most no. of Sixes – Chris Gayle (34) followed by Rohit Sharma (15)
Orange Cap – Chris Gayle (432) followed by Virat Kohli (333)
Purple Cap – Vinay Kumar (13) followed by Dwayne Bravo (12)
Best Batting Performance: Chris Gayle 175*(66)
Best Bowling Figures – Sunil Narine (4/13 Vs DD)
Most Dot Balls Bowled – Bhuvaneswar Kumar (86) followed by Dale Steyn (85)
Fastest Ball of IPL 6 – Shaun Tait (153.43 KMH) followed by Dale Steyn (152.48KMH)
Fairplay Award – Rajasthan Royals.
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IPL 6: Day 20– Aggressive Hussey floors Watto power…
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A Game of D’s, Dhoni Vs Dravid, Mass Vs Class… Always a treat to watch this combination for any cricket lover and definitely for me too…Dravid won the Toss and decided to Bat first, A simple one liner was the royals batting, Just Watson show all the way, Showed no mercy to any bowler ad he hardly worried about what length or line they bowled, Sheer display of Watto Powerhouse which allowed him to go past first century mark in this season of IPL. Binny and other Rajasthan players played around him to get to a score of 185 runs in 20 overs.
Chasing 185+ is always tough for any team and if one team could do with ease then it has to be CSK with the kind of batting line up they have, Only problem for them is Raina & Badrinath have not come to form yet. But it gave an opportunity today to the Later to get back his golden knick with bat, who scored his first six in this season IPL & first fifty of this season. Raina also empowered Hussey all the way who looked aggressive right from the word go and always kept the required run rate under control. At one stage when Dravid pulled a stunning run out & wickets of Jadeja + Dhoni trickled a small confusion in the CSK dugout, but Bravo ensured to clear the ropes comfortably once in the last over to get past the win line in style with a ball to spare…
Chennai Super Kings won the match by 5 wickets with 1 ball to spare…
Interesting Stats IPL 6 Day 20:
– Shane Watson scored the first century of this season of IPL; it is also the 25th century for IPL tournament in all seasons.
– Watson’s 101 runs over shined Shewag’s 95* for the highest score for this season.
– Shane Watson’s Century is also the fourth one for a Rajasthan Royal Player.
– Out of 7 innings Murali Vijay is out for a single digit in 4 of them.
– 58 runs scored by CSK in the powerplay overs is the highest for them in this season.
– This season has been made to wait longest to get the first century (30 matches), previous season was the slowest which took 18 matches.
– This is the first time Rajasthan Royals have lost a match when they have scored more than 162 runs, their record stands 15 – 0 till today, as now it will be rewritten as 15-1.
– Suresh Raina scored his 15th IPL fifty and also his first six for this season.
– Chennai has chased 5 times (including today) the score anything above 185+ and lost 3 times.
– Ravindra Jadeja scored his 3rd IPL duck and first as a Chennai Super King.
– 49 runs conceded by Kevon Cooper is the highest in any T20 international game.
– This is fourth time in IPL out of 25 occasions an IPL century has ended up in a losing side, previous century scorer are Symonds, Yusuf Pathan, Tendulkar & now Watson.
– Michael Hussey became the second player after Virat Kohli to breach 300 runs mark for this season.
– Both 185 runs target set yesterday by PWI and today by RR are achieved by chasing team exactly in the penultimate ball of the match, this is also the second match for CSK to win a game with just a ball to spare.
At the end of DAY 20 in IPL 6:
Total no. of Boundaries – 791
Total no. of Sixes – 220
Longest Six – 106 Meters by Chris Gayle (SRH)
Most no. of Fours – Mike Hussey (35) followed by Gambhir (33)
Most no. of Sixes – Chris Gayle (17) followed by Rohit Sharma (15)
Orange Cap – Virat Kohli (322) followed by M.Hussey (305)
Purple Cap – Dwayne Bravo (12) followed by Vinay Kumar (12)
Best Batting Performance: Shane Watson (101(61)) Vs CSK
Best Bowling Figures – Sunil Narine (4/13 Vs DD)
Most Dot Balls Bowled – Dale Steyn (85) followed by Ishant Sharma (75)
Fastest Ball of IPL 6 – Shaun Tait (153.43 KMH) followed by Dale Steyn (152.48KMH)
Fairplay Award – Rajasthan Royals.
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IPL 6: Day 19–Shewag & Miller deliver Killer Blows…
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Double Header Sunday, Two important games for four teams involved…
First Game, Delhi take on Mumbai, Later yet to register themselves in the point table, having lost 6 games in a trot, certainly needed a turn around, if they have any thought of Play offs. Mumbai won the toss and decided to bat first, another change in opening partnership where Dwayne Smith walked out with Sachin, but later failed to deliver, followed a straight drive from Sachin and tickle from Umesh to see Dinesh Karthik’s back as he was backing up too far. Both Rohit & Sachin up the antics to stick a partnership 96 runs between them and few lusty blows from Pollard ensured Mumbai scored 161 in 20 overs. Delhi came out with a piece of advise from the Calypso legend Viv Richards who has joined as the mentor. Oh… Man… Now the whole world want to know what Viv has said… Both Shewag & Jayawardene came out all guns blazing and smoked Mumbai Indians bowling and stitched the highest partnership for this season to win it all hands down with 18 balls to spare. Where was this Delhi hiding all this days….? Man from Caribbean came to woke up the tigers i guess…
Delhi Daredevils won the match by 9 wickets with 18 balls to spare…
Second Game, Where most would not be interested PWI Vs KXIP, all would have expected a low scoring affair and not a big game of cricket. But to all surprise came the highest scoring game of this season. For the first time this season Batsmen have called the shots and not the bowlers. For Pune it was Uthappa, Finch, Yuvaraj & Luke Wright who massacred the KXIP bowlers and scored 185 runs. Later KXIP in chase looked almost out when they lost Skipper Gilly & Azhar Mahmood in the space of 7 balls, leaving 5/2 in 1.1 overs. Manan Vohra came together with Mandeep Singh to get a fifty partnership before throwing his wicket away, But David Miller 80*(41) made sure his gritty knock doesn’t go vain as he and Mandeep Singh 77*(58) scored the winning runs in the penultimate ball to clinch a thriller…
Kings XI Punjab won the match by 7 wickets with 1 ball to spare…
Interesting Stats IPL 6 Day 19:
– Praveen Kumar bowled the 15th Maiden of this season.
– Both Praveen Kumar & Bhuvaneshwar Kumar now has taken 3 wickets in their first over in this season.
– 34 runs scored by Luke Wright in 10 balls is the highest by any player in IPL, previous best was by Albie Morkel who scored 28* in 10 balls.
– This is third time both Uthappa & Finch has stitched together a fifty partnership, highest by any team so far in this season.
– Out of 7 matches Pune has played, 5 times they have gone past 40 runs in powerplay over including today.
– Aaron Finch scored the 200th Six of this tournament.
– Sachin Tendulkar became the 24th Batsmen to reach 100 runs in this season of IPL.
– Rohit Sharma acored the 700th Boundary of this season.
– Rohit Sharma scored his 18th IPL half century; Only Gambhir is ahead of him scoring 19 IPL fifties.
– This is 6th time Kieron Pollard has ended an innings with a six in a T20 tournament.
– 2 times out of 8 occasions (including today) where Delhi have chased 160+ score, previous occasion also came against same opponent Mumbai Indians.
– This is the first time in David Warner has played & not opened the innings for Delhi daredevils.
– 151 runs partnership between Jaywardene & Shewag is the highest for any wicket in this season of IPL and also against Mumbai for any wicket for Delhi.
– 100 reached in 9.5 overs by Delhi is the fastest by any team in this season.
– Mandeep Singh became the first KXIP player to score a fifty for this season (almost after 6 games KXIP end the fifty drought). This is also Mandeep singh’s third fifty in IPL Career.
– Jaywardene became the 45th victim to be dismissed by Lasith Maliga either by Bowled or Leg Before Wicket. Overall Malinga has 86 IPL wickets.
– David Miller scored his maiden IPL fifty, his previous highest score was 34 runs against Mumbai Indians.
– This Sunday double header saw 7 fifties in just two games.
– Virender Shewag also scored the highest score by any individual for this season scoring 95*(57) bettering Virat Kohli’s 93*(47) against Sunrisers.
– IPL has seen 8 century stands for the fourth wicket including today’s 128 runs between Mandeep Singh & David Miller, in fact KXIP this is the first century partnership for fourth wicket.
– 185 runs scored by PWI is their third Highest total in IPL, and four times they have gone past 180+ runs in IPL but ironically they have lost 3 times even after a big score including the one today.
– Now Mohali joins the pitch which offer 180+ runs chase along with Bangalore where both the pitches has 4 successful 180+ score chases.
At the end of DAY 19 in IPL 6:
Total no. of Boundaries – 761
Total no. of Sixes – 209
Longest Six – 106 Meters by Chris Gayle (SRH)
Most no. of Fours – Virat Kohli (33) followed by G.Gambhir (33)
Most no. of Sixes – Chris Gayle (17) followed by Rohit Sharma (15)
Orange Cap – Virat Kohli (322) followed by G.Gambhir (260)
Purple Cap – Vinay Kumar (12) followed by Sunil Narine (11)
Best Batting Performance: Virender Shewag (95*(57)) Vs SRH
Best Bowling Figures – Sunil Narine (4/13 Vs DD)
Most Dot Balls Bowled – Dale Steyn (85) followed by Ishant Sharma (75)
Fastest Ball of IPL 6 – Shaun Tait (153.43 KMH) followed by Dale Steyn (152.48KMH)
Fairplay Award – Rajasthan Royals.
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