IPL 2022, Match 2 DC vs MI, Stats Review: Mumbai Indians' opening-day woes, Kuldeep Yadav’s second-best figures and other stats

Delhi Capitals pulled off a stunning victory against the five-time champions Mumbai Indians as they won the second match of IPL 2022 by four wickets at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. Chasing 178 to win, DC found themselves in huge trouble at 104/6, but Lalit Yadav and Axar Patel came to the rescue. Both remained not out on 48 and 38 respectively, to seal the deal for their side.

Earlier, Rishabh Pant won the toss and opted to field first. They took the field with just two overseas players in Tim Seifert and Rovman Powell, which was only the second time in the history of the league that a team had only two overseas players in the XI. Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma amassed 41 runs off 32 balls with four fours and two sixes. But it was Ishan Kishan who was the star for Mumbai as he struck an unbeaten 81 runs off just 48 deliveries to help his team in posting 177/5 in 20 overs. Kuldeep Yadav bowled a brilliant spell of 3/18 in four overs.

Chasing 178, openers Seifert and Prithvi Shaw made 21 and 38 respectively, as skipper Pant was for just 1 off 2. Mandeep Singh and Rovman Powell bagged ducks with DC finding themselves at 104/6 in 13.2 overs. Lalit Yadav and Axar Patel then joined hands to pull off a stunning win to finish off the chase in 18.2 overs. Jasprit Bumrah and Daniel Sams conceded 100 runs in between them in 7.2 overs without taking a wicket as MI’s opening day woes continued in the competition.

Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers from the 2^nd match between Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League 2022:

 3 – Ishan Kishan slammed his third consecutive half-century in the IPL. His scores in the last three matches read as 81*, 84, and 50*.

2 – Kuldeep Yadav registered his second-best figures (3/18) in the IPL. His best is 4/20 against Rajasthan Royals in 2018.

1 – With 838 runs, Kishan has scored the most runs for Mumbai Indians since the year 2020.

11.55 – Shaw has scored 104 runs in nine innings against Mumbai at an unimpressive average of 11.55, and a highest score of 38.

10 – Mumbai Indians have now lost ten consecutive opening-day fixtures in the last 10 seasons, starting from 2013.

2 – With 10 sixes, Rohit Sharma has now smashed the second-most maximums by Indians in the first over in the IPL. Virender Sehwag tops the list with 12 sixes.

2 – Delhi Capitals took the field with only two overseas players in the playing XI, which is only the second instance in IPL history. KKR played with only two foreigners against Chennai Super Kings in 2011.

1 – Rishabh Pant has now scored just one half-century in his last 11 IPL innings (including not-out innings).

417 – Ishan has 417 runs as an opener in seven innings since the year 2020 with an average of 139.00 and five half-centuries.

9 – Rohit Sharma has now gone without a fifty in his last nine IPL innings .

386 – Kishan has amassed 386 runs against the Delhi Capitals, his most against any opponent. The left-handed batter has 247 runs to his name against SRH.

8 – Eight out of the 12 times teams batting first have scored 175 or more at the Brabourne Stadium in the IPL.