IPL 9, Match 22: SRH v RPS – Statistical Highlights

The 9th season of Indian Premier League has finally witnessed some rain as it played a key role in the match between the Rising Pune Supergiants and the Sunrisers Hyderabad. RPS defeated the home team by 34 runs as per the D/L method. After being put into bat first, SRH managed to score only 119/8 in their 20 overs. Their innings got off 1 hour late and moisture in the air produced movement for pacers. Shikhar Dhawan was the lone warrior for Sunrisers and was unbeaten on 56.

RPS lost Rahane for a duck but Faf du Plessis and Steven Smith with their 80-run partnership got them into a winning position. Faf and MS Dhoni got out just before rain came back again and didn’t allow the game to resume. Here we look at all the stats and records recorded during the game.

2 – Number of times in T20 cricket first over of both innings started off with wicket maidens. Other instance was in January  2015 during Melbourne Renegades and Brisbane Heat at the BBL.

2 – Number of Man of the Match awards Ashok Dinda has received in Twenty20 cricket. This was his first in IPL. His previous match award in T20s came for India A vs West Indies A in June, 2012 where he conceded just 4 runs in Super over.

2 – Number of wickets Ravi Ashwin has taken in this IPL so far. Both came on the first ball of his spell in the match. Interestingly, his team won only those two matches.

3 – Maiden overs bowled by Ashok Dinda in the first over of the game was his 3rd maiden in Twenty20 cricket. It was his only the 2nd maiden in IPL. The first one was in 2012 vs MI also for a Pune franchise.

3/23 – Ashok Dinda’s 3/23 are his 2nd best figures in IPL. His best is 4/18 vs MI in 2012 which he registered for PWI.

4 – MS Dhoni escapes from recording his worst ever losing streak as captain in T20s. He has 3 streaks of 4 losses in T20 format.

39 – Innings since David Warner recorded his last duck in T20 cricket. He scored his last duck vs CSK in April 2014.

48 – Number of balls Shikhar Dhawan required for his half-century. This was the slowest fifty recorded in IPL for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Previous slowest was 44 balls by Parthiv Patel vs KXIP in 2013.

56* – Shikhar Dhawan’s 56* is the 2nd lowest score by an opener who opened the batting and remained not out. The lowest such score is 53* by H Gibbs for Deccan Charges vs RCB in 2009 IPL final.

67 – Runs scored by MS Dhoni against Ashish Nehra in Twenty20 cricket. This game was the first instance where Nehra got Dhoni. He scored 67 runs in 34 balls with 7 fours and 2 sixes in this format before this game.

1031 – Dismissals made by MS Dhoni in his professional cricket as wicket keeper. Among Asians, he is only behind Kamran Akmal and Kumar Sangakkara.

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