IPL 10, Match 24, Rising Pune Supergiant v Sunrisers Hyderabad – Statistical Highlights

Sunrisers Hyderabad bagged their 3rd successive loss outside home in this IPL as the hosts Rising Pune Supergiant defeated the defending champions by the grace of a splendid inning from MS Dhoni. A quick fifty from Moises Henriques, in the end, raised SRH’s total to 176/3 as they got off to a slow start after been put into bat.

Rahul Tripathi’s blitz put RPS in a commanding position before slow middle overs made the equation tight. But a cool inning from Dhoni helped his side to chase down 47 from the last 3 overs. Here we look at all the records and stats created in the game.

4 – Number of fifty-plus scores against Sunrisers Hyderabad for MS Dhoni in the IPL, the most fifty-plus scores by any player in IPL vs SRH. Virat Kohli also has 4 fifties in IPL vs SRH.

5 – Number of fifty-plus scores against Sunrisers Hyderabad for MS Dhoni in Twenty20 cricket, the most such scores for Dhoni against a single opposition. MSD scored 4 fifties in T20s vs KXIP and 3 vs MI. He has 4 fifties in the IPL and 1 in CLT20 vs SRH.

12 – Number of times MS Dhoni received a man of the match award in Twenty20 cricket, all of the previous 12 he received were as captain. The man of the match award in this game is the first for Dhoni in T20s while playing as non-captain.

13 – Number of times MS Dhoni received a man of the match award in Twenty20 cricket, all of those have come in the IPL. Only 5 players have received more man of the match awards in the IPL than Dhoni.

15 – Number of times Dhoni remained unbeaten in a successful chase in the IPL, 2nd most times by any player. Yusuf Pathan and Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten in a successful chase in IPL on 16 occasions.

17y 199d – Washington Sundar’s age coming into this game; he became the 3rd youngest player to make debut in the IPL. Youngest players: Sarfaraz Khan (17y 177d) and Pradeep Sangwan (17y 179d). Sundar pushed his team mate Rahul Chahar (17y 247d) to 4th position by making his debut.

58.28 – MS Dhoni’s batting average in successful run chases in the IPL, the 2nd highest average in successful IPL run chases for anyone. Chris Gayle averages 69.88 in successful run chases.

177 – Target chased down by Rising Pune Supergiant in this game, only the 3rd 170+ chase by any team in IPL against Sunrisers Hyderabad. SRH lost while defending 208 v KXIP in 2014 and 178 v MI in 2013.