IPL 10, Match 52, Delhi Daredevils v Rising Pune Supergiant – Statistical Highlights

The excitement of the 2017 IPL season will extend for a couple of more days with the 3 out of the 4 teams yet to be decided for the next round and the final weekend of the league stage will be deciding that thing. It was all due to the Delhi Daredevils who spoiled the Rising Pune Supergiant’s chance of sealing a berth today as they defeating them by a margin of 7 runs defending their total of 168.

After electing to bat, DD looked set to score a 200 plus total but had to settle with only 168/8. Pune looked home in the chase till the moment Ben Stokes misplayed a low full toss and got out. After his dismissal, the tables turned upside down and the home side completed the double over the Supergiant.

2 – Number of times Zaheer Khan has dismissed Ajinkya Rahane in this season. Prior to this, Zaheer never dismissed Rahane in the 28 balls he bowled.

6 – Number of times MS Dhoni has been run out in the IPL so far including this game. The previous occasion when Dhoni was run out in the IPL was in the previous season vs SRH.

15 – Number of ducks Ajinkya Rahane has in Twenty20 cricket so far; the joint 4th most by any Indian in T20s. Harbhajan Singh, Gautam Gambhir and Manish Pandey have 18, 17 and 16 ducks in T20s respectively while Yusuf Pathan also has 15 T20 ducks.

51 – Wickets taken by Jaydev Unadkat in the IPL so far. He completed his 50 IPL wickets in this game with his first wicket that of Iyer.

62 – Number of wins Delhi Daredevils have secured in the IPL so far, the 6th most for any team. They went past Rajasthan Royals’ 61 IPL wins. (Excluding Super over wins)

64 – Karun Nair’s 64 in this game is his highest score across all formats since the triple century in Test cricket. In fact, this is his maiden fifty since that innings.

38y 217d – Zaheer Khan’s age when he walked out to play this game, he became the oldest player to complete 100 wickets in the IPL. Ashish Nehra was 37 years and 341 days old when he completed 100 IPL wickets. In fact, Zaheer is the slowest in terms of days since debut beating Nehra’s record.

101 – Wickets taken by Zaheer Khan in the IPL so far. He became the 10th bowler to complete 100 IPL wickets and only the 2nd left-hander after Nehra to do the same.

124 – Number of catches MS Dhoni has taken as wicketkeeper in the Twenty20 format; the most by any wicketkeeper in this format. He went past Kumar Sangakkara who has taken 123 catches behind the stumps.