IPL 10, Match 41 Kolkata Knight Riders v Rising Pune Supergiant - Statistical Highlights

The Rising Pune Supergiant continue their rise in the points table as they move to the 3rd spot with their 7th win in 11 games as they defeated the Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens by 4 wickets. A collective bowling effort ensured the home side didn’t post big with none of their batsmen managing to convert their start. Chasing KKR’s total of 155/8, Rahul Tripathi launched an assault to smash KKR out of the game with his boundaries. He scored a brilliant 93 off 53 balls which including 9 fours and 7 big sixes.

0.763 – Kolkata Knight Riders’ win-loss ratio of 0.763 while batting first in the IPL is the 3rd lowest for any team that has batted first more than 50 times. KXIP have a ratio of 0.651 while DD have got 0.512 win-loss ratio.

1 – The maiden over by Jaydev Unadkat at the start of KKR’s innings is his first ever maiden in the IPL so far. He never bowled a maiden in the 140 overs he bowled in the 41 games he played before this in the IPL.

2 – Number of IPL matches Robin Uthappa has missed for his teams, the 2nd fewest by anyone playing since the inaugural IPL season. Uthappa missed a game for RCB in 2010. Raina, Rohit, Yusuf and D Karthik all have missed just one game for their IPL sides in the 10 seasons so far.

3 – Number of players including Kuldeep Yadav who have dismissed MS Dhoni twice in an IPL season so far. Pragyan Ojha in 2008 and Zaheer Khan in 2011 have done this in the past.

9 – Number of batsmen who have been dismissed “hit-wicket” in the IPL so far. Sheldon Jackson was the 9th one and the first one to be dismissed “Hit-wicket” while playing for Kolkata Knight Riders.

23 – Balls taken by Rahul Tripathi for his fifty in this game, the fastest fifty by anyone for Rising Pune Supergiant in the IPL. Previous fastest is in 27 balls by Ajinkya Rahane over MI in their first match of this season.

100 – Number of wickets taken by Chris Woakes in Twenty20 cricket. He completed 100 wickets in T20s with Rahul Tripathi’s wicket.

126 – Number of consecutive games Robin Uthappa has featured for his respective sides before missing out in this game, the 3rd longest streak for any player in the IPL. Suresh Raina featured in 142 consecutive games while Rohit Sharma and Dinesh Karthik featured in 139 matches in a row.

251 – Runs scored by Rahul Tripathi in the powerplay overs in this IPL season, the most by any player. He went past David Warner who has scored 238 runs in the first 6 overs this season.