IPL 10, Match 8, KXIP v RCB – Statistical Highlights

AB de Villiers’ returning was the only boost for Royal Challengers Bangalore in their game against Kings XI Punjab at Indore as the South African batsman struck and unbeaten 89 on a track where his fellow batsmen struggled big time and make ABD face as many balls as possible. It was his knock which whole and sole helped RCB to post 148/4, which was chased down by KXIP by 15th over losing only 2 wickets. Here we look at all the records and stats created during the game.

4 – Number of Man of the match awards Axar Patel has in IPL. He has one match award in each of the previous 3 seasons.

7 – Runs scored by Vishnu Vinod in this game. These are the fewest runs he scored while opening in a Twenty20. He opened in 7 Twenty20s before this game and his scores read 31*, 63, 64, 37, 35, 36 and 31.

9 – Number of 75+ scores AB de Villiers has scored in IPL so far, the 4th most by any player. Only Chris Gayle (18), David Warner (12) and Virat Kohli (11) have more 75+ scores in IPL than ABD.

20 – Number of sixes were hit in this game. There were only 17 fours hit in the game. Only once before in IPL, a game had more sixes hit than fours. Deccan Chargers vs Mumbai Indians at Vizag in 2012 had 16 sixes and 14 fours.

33 – Number of balls remain by the time Kings XI Punjab achieved the target, their 3rd biggest margin of win in IPL in terms of balls to spare. This is the 2nd biggest margin in terms of balls to spare for Royal Challengers Bangalore who lost by 42 balls vs Rajasthan Royals in 2014 when they were bowled out for just 70.

60.135 – Percentage of RCB’s total came from AB de Villiers in this game, the 6th most runs scored by a player in a completed innings in IPL.

89* – AB de Villiers’ 89* is his highest individual score to come in losing cause in Twenty20 cricket. The 77 for Dolphins in 2014 CLT20 vs CSK was his previous highest T20 score in losing cause. This 89* is the 2nd highest score to come in losing cause for RCB behind Kohli’s 100* vs GL last year.

150 – Number of sixes AB de Villiers has hit in IPL so far. He became the 4th player after Gayle, Rohit and Raina to hit 150 sixes in IPL.

610 – Balls taken by Glenn Maxwell to complete 1000 IPL runs, the 2nd fewest by any player. Virender Sehwag needed 604 balls to complete 1000 runs in IPL.

1005 – Runs scored by Glenn Maxwell in IPL so far. He is now the 11th player from Australia to complete 1000 IPL runs.

2014 – KXIP winning in their first two games of this season is only the 2nd instance for them where they started an IPL season with a win in first two games. They won their first two games in 2014 IPL.