IPL 9, Match 20: RPS v KKR – Statistical Highlights

Kolkata Knight Riders won their 3rd consecutive game after they defeated Rising Pune Supergiants by 2 wickets at the MCA Stadium, Pune. After put into bat first, RPS put on 160/5 in their 20 overs. Ajinkya Rahane top-scored with 67 while other players contributed their part.

KKR lost early wickets but Surya Kumar Yadav and Yusuf Pathan took them towards the target. However, Pune came back well to pick wickets as KKR were 8 down in last over with 5 more runs to be scored. Umesh Yadav hit a six at that moment as KKR won with 3 balls to spare. Here we look at all the stats and records recorded during the game.

3 – Number of times since October 2015 Umesh Yadav has finished off team’s run chase with a six. Other two instances were in a Ranji game for Vidarbha vs Assam and in a Vijay Hazare Trophy game for Vidarbha vs Maharashtra.

4 – Rajat Bhatia became the 4th Indian player to score 1000 runs and pick 100 wickets in Twenty20 format. Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, and Piyush Chawla are the other 3.

4 – Consecutive matches lost by Rising Pune Supergiants. This is the first time a team led by MS Dhoni lost 4 consecutive matches. In overall T20 cricket, this is the 3rd time MSD lost 4 consecutive matches as captain but first time in IPL.

12 – Number of times Gautam Gambhir has got run out in IPL, joint most times by any player.

18 – Number of times Gautam Gambhir has got run out in Twenty20 cricket. Only Mahela Jayawardene (20) and Azhar Mahmood (19) got out on more occasions.

37 – Out of 87 runs MS Dhoni has hit in this IPL so far, 37 runs have come in 20th over.

60 – Surya Kumar Yadav scored his maiden IPL fifty. This was only his 2nd fifty in Twenty20 cricket, both came in 2016 only.

66 – Number of wickets taken by Rajat Bhatia in IPL, the most by an uncapped Indian player.

83 – Balls bowled by Ravi Ashwin since his first wicket in this IPL so far. He picked up a wicket on the first ball he bowled but hasn’t had any success after that.

128 – Number of sixes hit by Yusuf Pathan and MS Dhoni in IPL. Only 3 players have hit more than them.

201 – Number of sixes hit by Yusuf Pathan in Twenty20 cricket. He became the 4th Indian to hit 200 and more sixes in this format.

How did the match pan out? – IPL 9, Match 20 Review: KKR win a cliffhanger contest in Pune