IPL 10, Match 23, Kolkata Knight Riders v Gujarat Lions – Statistical Highlights

Gujarat Lions seems to be getting back on the track after defeating the Kolkata Knight Riders at their backyard, Eden Gardens. Despite in the absence of the GL’s main bowler Andrew Tye, the visitors managed to restrict the KKR total to 187/5 after a Narine blitz gave them a great start. Gujarat got off to a flyer in the chase which helped Suresh Raina to carry on despite the wickets falling at the other end. His 84-run knock turned out to be a fruitful one for his side as they went past the target losing 6 wickets and with 10 balls to spare.

5 – Number of losses for Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens since 2014, all the five while defending a total. They have won 15 games in this period.

9 – Number of scores of 75+ for Suresh Raina in IPL so far, the joint 4th most by any player. Gayle, Warner and Kohli have 19, 12 and 11 respectively while AB de Villiers too had nine scores of 75+ in IPL.

14 – Number of man of the match awards Suresh Raina has received in IPL so far, the joint 4th most for any player in the IPL. Gayle, Yusuf and ABD have 18, 16 and 15 awards respectively while Warner too has 14 man of the match awards.

42 – Runs scored by Sunil Narine is this game, all those runs have come in boundaries. His 42 runs are the most in an IPL innings with all of them coming in boundaries. Previous most: 36 by Sanath Jayasuriya for MI vs DC in 2008.

84 – Runs scored by Suresh Raina in this game, his highest score in a successful run chase in IPL and his 2nd highest while chasing in IPL. This is also the first 80+ score by anyone for Gujarat Lions.

188 – Target successfully chased down by Gujarat Lions in this game, the joint 2nd biggest successful chase for any team over KKR in IPL. KXIP chased down 201 in 2010 while MI chased 188 last year with both of them coming at this venue only.

247.05 – Sunil Narine’s strike-rate of 247.05 in his innings of 42 off 17 balls is the 4th highest in 30+ inns for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL. Narine’s S/R is also the 2nd highest in a 30+ scored innings in this IPL season behind Chris Morris’s S/R of 422.22 vs RPS during his 9-ball 38*.

701 – Runs scored by Suresh Raina in the IPL against Kolkata Knight Riders, the most by any player in IPL vs KKR. He went past Rohit Sharma who has 657 runs vs KKR in the league history.

701 – Suresh Raina now has scored 701 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL. He became the 4th player to aggregate 700+ runs against a single team in IPL. Gayle (797 v KXIP), Raina (707 v MI) and Kohli (706 v MI) got 700 and more runs in IPL vs a single team.

2061 – Runs aggregated by Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa pair in Twenty20 cricket so far. They became the 4th pair to have over 2000 partnership runs in this format.