IPL 10, Match 56, Delhi Daredevils v Royal Challengers Bangalore – Statistical Highlights

With all the standings in the points table decided including the ones in the bottom four, the final league game of 2017 IPL season between the Delhi Daredevils and Royal Challengers Bangalore almost seemed to be the most meaningless game in the IPL history but the both sides fought hard to finish on a high. In the end, the RCB finally ended their losing streak and bagged only their 3rd win of the season with two of those coming over DD.

RCB posted 161/6 in their 20 overs with some good knocks from Kohli and Gayle. The home side relied on their tail-enders towards the last few overs, who couldn’t chase down the target as none of their top-order batters stayed at the crease till the last moment despite getting starts.

1 – For the first time in IPL history both the teams played with less than 4 overseas players in their XI.

6 – Number of overseas players featured in this game; the joint fewest in an IPL match. The opening game of 2011 season between CSK and KKR also had only 6 overseas players as KKR played with only 2 foreign players.

9 – Number of matches AB de Villiers has played for RCB without being a part of a win in this season, the most number of matches played by anyone in a season by being part of losses in all of them. D Ravi Teja in 2008 and Daniel Christian in 2011 were part of 7 losses each while playing for Deccan Chargers. Samuel Badree also played 7 games for RCB in this season with his side being on the losing side in all of those.

21 – Runs scored by Mohammed Shami in this game; his highest individual score in Twenty20 cricket so far. Shami has batted in 18 innings before this with his highest been 7.

34 – Number of consecutive games Delhi Daredevils have played in the IPL by making at least one change to their previous match’s XI. The last time they fielded without making a change was in 2015 vs RCB at Delhi.

85 – Number of losses in Twenty20 cricket for Delhi Daredevils, the 3rd most number of losses in Twenty20s for any side. Middlesex and Derbyshire lost 93 and 88 Twenty20s respectively while Royal Challengers Bangalore lost 84.

100 – Number of IPL games Zaheer Khan has played so far. This was his 100th IPL game. He is only the 35th player to feature in 100 IPL matches.

661 – Runs scored by Virat Kohli against Delhi Daredevils in the IPL, the 2nd most by anyone vs DD in IPL. Rohit Sharma has scored 670 runs over DD in the league.

3035 – Partnership runs between Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli pair in Twenty20 cricket; the most by any pair. They became the first pair with 3000 partnership runs in this format.