Confident win for the Knight's, Delhi continues to look helpless; KKR v DD: Statistical Review

Confident win for the Knight’s, Delhi continues to look helpless; KKR v DD: Statistical Review: It was yet another good game of Cricket at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata between the home team the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and the Delhi Daredevils (DD). As it happened, KKR won the match by a margin of 13 runs. It was quite a comprehensive victory for the Men in Purple. Once again, the skeleton of the batting line up of the Delhi Daredevils just got exposed and their over-dependence on JP Duminy showed up badly.

As Cricket is basically a game of numbers’ in the end, what matters are the stats. So let us draw our focus into the statistics of the match. Here it goes:

The match in numbers:

• Number of fours hit by KKR/DD: 16/14

• Number of sixes hit by KKR/DD: 6/7

• Total number of dot balls bowled by KKR/DD: 48/48

• Total number of wide deliveries bowled by KKR/DD: 5/5

• Highest Run scorer of the match: Yusuf Pathan (42 runs off 24 deliveries)

• Highest wicket taker in the match: Piyush Chawla (4-0-32-4)

• Total number of runs scored: 329/13 in 40 overs.

• Net Run Rate of the match: +0.65 in favour of KKR and -0.65 in favour of DD

Other interesting statistical facts of the match:

• This match marked the 52^nd win for Gautam Gambhir as an IPL captain. The left handed aggressive opening batsman has now 52 wins in 89 IPL matches.

• This is the 14^th time in the history of IPL that KKR batted first and put up a total of over 170 runs in an IPL. This is the lowest by any team that has played in each of the 8 IPLs.

• This was the first time in the history of IPL that Piyush Chawla had faced Yuvraj Singh in IPL. Later, Yuvraj was dismissed by Piyush Chawla for a duck.

• This was the fourth time in the history of IPL that Gautam Gambhir was dismissed by Zaheer Khan. Only Pragyan Ojha has managed to dismiss him on five occasions.

• Yuvraj dismissed Manish Pandey today. This marked his first wicket in IPL 2015. He has bowled a total of six overs in this particular IPL. The left arm spinner has got 35 IPL wickets by his name.

• This is the third instance in the history of IPL that Sunil Narine has conceded over 30 runs in an innings in IPL. The previous two occasions were the IPL finals in 2012 against Chennai Super Kings and in 2014 against Kings XI Punjab.

• Imran Tahir took 2 wickets today by conceding 46 runs. This makes the right arm leg spinner the sixth highest wicket taker in this year’s IPL with 15 wickets. Ahead of him are Ashish Nehra(17 wickets), Dwayne Bravo(16 wickets), Bhuvaneshwar Kumar(16 wickets), Mitchell Starc(15 wickets) and Lasith Malinga(15 wickets). Notably, he is the leading wicket taker when it comes to only spinners in this IPL.

• This match marked the second 4-wicket haul for Piyush Chawla in IPL.