IPL 10, Match 35, Gujarat Lions v Mumbai Indians – Statistical Highlights

The game between Gujarat Lions and Mumbai Indians can be easily divided into three halves with the first one being where the Mumbai Indians looked all set for their 7th win before the birthday boy James Faulkner started his destruction in the 2nd part backed well by Basil Thampi to take the game into the Super Over.

In the last minutes of his 27th birthday, Faulkner restricted MI for just 11 runs in the one-over eliminator. The third part was the change of date on the calendar as it was MI skipper Rohit Sharma who was celebrating his birthday and Jasprit Bumrah held his nerves to conceded just 6 runs against the Finch-McCullum pair and handed a lovely birthday present to his captain who believed in the young pacer.

Here are all the records and statistical achievements from the game.

1 – For the first time in the Twenty20 cricket, Mumbai Indians were involved in a ‘tie’. They have featured in 170 T20 games before this but were never involved in a tied game.

1 – For the first time in the IPL, Gujarat Lions have elected to bat first on winning the toss. They have won the toss on 12 occasions previously and elected to chase each and every time.

4 – Number of Mumbai Indians’ batsmen dismissed by run out in this game, the joint 2nd most run outs in an innings in the IPL. In 2008, five MI batsmen got run out vs KXIP. Four batsmen from CSK and MI got run out vs DD and PWI respectively in 2012.

7 – Number of tied matches in the IPL so far, this is the first tied game of this season and the 2nd tied game in the IPL on April 29th. Other tied game on April 29 came in 2014 between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders.

9 – Number of fifty-plus scores Parthiv Patel has in the IPL so far. Six of those came in wins while one in a loss. Other two including in this game came in a tie with the previous one coming in a tie resulting in a loss.

13 – Number of ducks for Harbhajan Singh in the IPL; the most for any player. He went past Gautam Gambhir who has 12 ducks to his name.

32 – Runs scored by Brendon McCullum in Super Overs in Twenty20 cricket. He has featured in 9 Super Overs in Twenty20s with his team finishing on the losing side on 6 occasions.

67 – Number of dismissals affected by Parthiv Patel as wicketkeeper in the IPL so far; the joint 5th most by any player. He equalled Adam Gilchrist’s 67 dismissals as a keeper record in the IPL.

1004 – Number of dot balls bowled by Lasith Malinga in the IPL so far, the third most by any bowler. He became the 3rd player to deliver 1000 dot balls in IPL after Praveen Kumar (1062) and Harbhajan Singh (1038).