IPL 2024: Match 24: Stats Review: Fastest to 3000 runs, and other stats from RR vs GT

In another thriller in IPL 2024, Rajasthan Royals, who headed into this match having won each of their first four matches, but stumbled from a winning position to hand Gujarat Titans a win in a match that went down to the last ball. 

Gujarat Titans won the toss and sent the Royals in, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler's poor form continued as Titans reaped early benefits. But, skipper Sanju Samson(68* off 38) and the man newly in-form Riyan Parag(76 off 48) put up a partnership of 130 in just 13 overs as RR pushed on to 196/3 even with Rashid Khan(1 for 18) looming large. 

GT's innings began rather slow, amassing just 44 runs in the powerplay and 64 in 8 overs. Kuldeep Sen(3 for 41)'s first spell of three wickets in less than two overs rocked GT, but it was at that point that Titans skipper Shubman Gill(72 off 44) kicked on. But, when Gill fell, GT still needed 64 runs off 28 balls. 

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Contributions from Vijay Shankar and Shahrukh Khan ultimately helped bring down the equation to 35 runs in two overs. At that point, Kuldeep Sen, who had rocked GT in his first spell, proceeded to concede 20 runs off the 19th over. With 15 runs required off the last over, the finishing touches were applied by Rahul Tewatia (22 off 11) and Player of The Match Rashid Khan (24* off 11) successfully completing the chase with a four off the last ball. 

Here are all the stats from the game. 

26 - Yuzvendra Chahal became the 26th player to play 150 IPL matches. 

12 -  Sanju Samson became the 12th player to play 50 matches as captain, he also became the eight player to play 50 matches as captain for a single franchise. 

76 — Riyan Parag's 76 off 48 is the joint second-highest score by a RR batter batting at No. 4. This score is tied with four other innings.

130 — Sanju Samson and Riyan Parag's partnership of 130 runs is the second highest for the third wicket by an RR pair. At first place is the unbeaten partnership of 152 runs between Sanju Samson and Ben Stokes against Mumbai Indians in 2020.  

129 — Shubman Gill reached the milestone of 4000 T20 runs in 129 innings, he is the ninth-fastest batter to the milestone by inning batted. The players above him are: Chris Gayle (107 innings), Shaun Marsh (113), Babar Azam (115), Devon Conway (116), Ruturaj Gaikwad (116), KL Rahul (117), Michael Klinger (124) and Darcy Short (127). 

94 — By completing 3000 IPL runs in his 94th innings, Shubman Gill became the joint fourth-fastest player by innings to 3000 IPL runs. The players who did it in as many or fewer innings than him are: Chris Gayle(75 innings), KL Rahul (80), Jos Buttler (85), David Warner (94) and Faf du Plessis (94).

75 — The 75 runs that Gujarat titans scored in the last five overs of the chase are the third highest in a successful chase in the IPL. The top two instances are, RR scoring 86 runs against PBKS at Sharjah in 2020 and CSK scoring 77 runs against RCB at Chennai in 2012.

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197–197 is the second-highest target successfully chased at Jaipur in the IPL. The highest is SRH's chase of 215 against RR in 2023. 

197–197 is also the second-highest target that GT have successfully chased down in the IPL, their highest is the 198 that they chased down against RCB at Bengaluru in 2023.