IPL 10, Match 51, Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab – Statistical Highlights

The excitement of the IPL 2017 continued with the Kings XI Punjab edging past the Mumbai Indians to keep their playoff hopes alive with one more game to be played by them and a need for the results to go their way. In a must the in the game, Kings XI Punjab struck big with the bat as they posted 230/3 in their 20 overs after Mumbai asked the visitors to at first at the Wankhede Stadium.

However, the home side gave a strong reply with the bat as they got off to a flyer. Despite going down in the middle overs, a couple of big overs helped by some sloppy work by the KXIP fielders towards the end made it look an easy outing for the Mumbai side but the Sandeep-Mohit duo once again sparked, in the end, giving away just 15 runs when 23 were needed in the last 12 balls.

Here are all the stats and records from the game

5 – Number of instances when a Mumbai Indians players conceded 50 or more runs in a game in this IPL season. Three of those including this game have been by Mitchell McClenaghan.

5 – Number of Sharma’s who played this game – Rohit, Karn, Sandeep, Mohit and Ishant. These are the most number of players featured in an IPL with the same surname.

6.25 – Glenn Maxwell’s batting average in Twenty20s against Jasprit Bumrah. Maxwell has faced 22 balls from Bumrah and got dismissed 4 times and scored 27 runs in the T20 format.

26 – Number of sixes hit in this game, the 3rd most sixes hit in an IPL game. There were 31 sixes in DD-GL game in this season while 30 sixes were hit in CSK-RR game in 2010.

45 – Runs conceded by Harbhajan Singh in his 3 overs, the most he has conceded in a Twenty20 game in his career so far. Previous most was 44 runs on two different occasions with both of those coming in IPL and in Mumbai only.

93* – Wriddhiman Saha’s 93* is his 2nd highest score in the IPL behind the 115* he scored in the IPL 2014 final. Had Saha managed to score a fifty, he could have been the 2nd player after Adam Gilchrist to score multiple tons as a wicketkeeper in the IPL.

102 – Number of balls bowled by Ishant Sharma in this IPL without picking a wicket. If he fails to pick a wicket in the remainder of the season, he will be the first one to deliver 100 balls without taking a wicket in an IPL edition.

223/6 – Mumbai Indians’ total of 223/6 in this game is their highest ever total in the IPL. Their previous highest was 218/7 vs DD in 2010.

223/6 – Mumbai Indians’ total of 223/6 is the joint-highest by any team in a chase. RR also scored 223/5 in 2010 vs CSK.

230/3 – Kings XI Punjab’s total of 230/3 is the 9th highest total, 3rd highest for KXIP, 2nd highest against MI and the 2nd highest at the Wankhede in the IPL history.

453 – Runs aggregated in this game, the 2nd highest aggregated game in IPL history and the 8th most runs scored in a game overall in Twenty20 cricket. Highest aggregated game in the IPL is 469 runs in CSK-RR game in 2010 at Chennai.

801 – Partnership runs between Lendl Simmons and Parthiv Patel in the IPL while opening, the most by any Mumbai Indians opening pair. They went past Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya pair who had 719 runs between them while opening the innings in the IPL.

5035 – Runs scored by Lendl Simmons in the Twenty20 cricket so far. He became the 30th player to complete 5000 runs in this format and the 5th from West Indies after Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Smith and Dwayne Bravo.