IPL 2024: Match 29: Stats Review: Most centuries for MI, Most sixes in T20 cricket and other stats from MI vs CSK

A Rohit Sharma century after 12 years in the IPL, vintage sixes by MS Dhoni and some excellent death over bowling by Matheesha Pathirana, Match no. 29 Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai had it all. CSK finally managed to win an away game after losses to DC and SRH, while MI ended their sequence of four consecutive home matches with two wins and losses. 

MI sent CSK in to bat and made some early inroads as Ajinkya Rahane departed early. CSK tried stabilising their batting and were largely successful due to captain Ruturaj Gaikwad (66 off 40), who demoted himself to No. 3, and Shivam Dube (66* off 38) did well to shift the momentum to CSK's side, but it was a final over burst by former skipper MS Dhoni (20* off 4) that pushed CSK to 206/4. 

MI started well at the top racing to 70 runs in seven overs before losing Ishan Kishan in the eighth over. From there MI looked like they were winning the match but a valiant effort by former skipper Rohit Sharma (105* off 63) made the innings gain some respectability as MI only managed 186/6. Matheesha Pathirana (4 for 28) played a crucial role in derailing MI in the middle overs.

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CSK are now third on the points table with eight points from six matches, while MI slipped to eighth and have only four points from six matches.

Here are all the stats and records from the game:

3 - Ruturaj Gaikwad breached the 2000-run mark in the IPL during his 40-ball 66 which was his 57th innings in the IPL. At 57 innings, Ruturaj Gaikwad became the third fastest batter by innings to 2000 IPL runs, only Shaun Marsh (52) and Chris Gayle (49) got there faster.

1 - MS Dhoni's strike rate of 500 in this innings is the joint highest in an IPL innings of 20 or more runs. Krunal Pandya had also scored 20* off 4 against SRH at Sharjah in 2020. 

1 - Rohit Sharma became the first batter to hit two centuries for Mumbai Indians in the IPL. Sanath Jayasuriya, Sachin Tendulkar, Lendl Simmons, Suryakumar Yadav and Cameron Green all have one each for MI.

3 - Rohit Sharma's 105* is the third-highest individual score for MI in the IPL. His own 109* against KKR at Kolkata in 2012 and Sanath Jayasuriya's 114* against CSK at the Wankhede Stadium in 2008 lead the list. 

4 - Rohit Sharma's knock is the joint fourth-highest against CSK in the IPL. 

4 - Rohit Sharma scored his eighth T20 hundred which is the second most among Indians after Virat Kohli's 9. Sharma is now tied fourth with David Warner, Aaron Finch and Michael Klinger on the list of most T20 hundreds. Virat Kohli(9), Babar Azam (11) and Chris Gayle (22) are the only players with more centuries than Sharma.

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19 - Rohit Sharma's knock was the 19th hundred in IPL history to go in vain. 

26 - Rohit Sharma's century is the 26th hundred in IPL to come in a chase. 

3 - Rohit Sharma's century is the third in IPL history to have come in a chase and in a losing cause. In 2021 at the Wankhede Stadium, Sanju Samson had scored 119 against Punjab Kings while at the Brabourne Stadium in 2010, Yusuf Pathan scored 100 against MI. 

5 - Rohit Sharma became the fifth batter overall, and the first Indian to hit 500 sixes in T20 cricket. Currently, Colin Munro(548), Andre Russell(648), Kieron Pollard(860) and Chris Gayle(1056) are ahead of him.