IPL 10, Match 33, Kings XI Punjab v Sunrisers Hyderabad – Statistical Highlights

Sunrisers Hyderabad has finally bagged a win outside Hyderabad with a convincing 26-run win over the Kings XI Punjab, who were playing their first game at their actual home Mohali. Sunrisers posted a huge total of 207/3 with the help fifties from Dhawan, Warner and Williamson.

Kings XI struggled to get going in the chase with the top order batsmen failing badly. Shaun Marsh’s gusty 84, in the end, turned out to be a losing margin saver for the hosts. Here are all the records and statistical achievements from the game.

1 – Martin Guptill became the first player from New Zealand to represent Kings XI Punjab in an IPL game.

3 – Number of individual fifties in Sunrisers Hyderabad’s innings. This is only the 2nd instance of 3 individual fifties in an IPL innings. Delhi Daredevils also had 3 fifties vs Mumbai Indians in 2012 at Delhi.

4 – Number of IPL games Sunrisers Hyderabad have played at Mohali without losing. They have won all those 4 games. Among the list of teams undefeated at a venue in IPL, SRH at Mohali stands at second along with RCB at Pune. KKR leads the list with 6 out of 6 wins at Pune.

5 – Number of century stands between David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan in the IPL so far for the opening wicket; the most for any pair in the IPL. They went past Kohli-Gayle pair who have four 100-run stands for the opening wicket in the IPL.

5 – Number of century stands between David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan in Twenty20 cricket for the opening wicket; the joint most for any pair in his format. Luke Wright and Chris Nash pair also have five 100-run stands for the opening wicket in Twenty20s.

6 – Number of consecutive innings in IPL for David Warner vs Kings XI Punjab in which he scored a fifty, the 2nd longest fifty scoring streak vs a single opposition in the IPL for any player. Warner himself has scored the fifties in 7 consecutive IPL innings against RCB.

31 – Balls taken by Shikhar Dhawan for his fifty in this game, his joint 2nd fastest fifty in the IPL. Dhawan’s fastest fifty in the IPL came in 28 balls vs KKR in the last season.

144 – Innings taken by Shaun Marsh to complete 5000 runs in Twenty20 cricket, the 2nd fewest by any player. Chris Gayle needed 132 innings to complete the milestone.

207/3 – Sunrisers Hyderabad’s total of 207/3 in this game is their joint 2nd highest total in the IPL. Highest is 208/7 vs RCB in last year’s final while they posted 207/4 in the opening game of this season vs RCB only.

2088 – Partnership runs between David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan in the IPL so far, the third most partnership runs for a pair in the IPL. They became the 3rd pair after Kohli-Gayle and Gambhir-Uthappa to score 2000 runs.