IPL 2015: Match 8 RCBvSRH - Statistical Report

IPL 2015: Match 8 RCBvSRH – Statistical Report: Sunrisers Hyderabad came back well after been losing to Chennai Super Kings by a bigger margin as they registered a quite comfortable win by 8 wickets against the hosts, Royal Challengers Bangalore. Here, we look at the all possible stats recorded during the game.

–> Chris Gayle, with a six in the first over of the match bowled by Trent Boult completed 200 sixes in his IPL career. He is already the most sixes hitter in IPL with the next best been Suresh Raina, with 134 sixes.

Not only in IPL, Gayle is also the highest sixes hitter in the Twenty20 format, with 493 sixes. The next best is Kieron Pollard with 336 sixes, way long from Gayle.

–> Chris Gayle is the orange cap holder in IPL 8 with 117 runs in two matches played, taking over Gautam Gambhir, who is with 115 runs.

–> Sunrisers Hyderabad bowler, Ashish Reddy got rid off Darren Sammy in his first over with a yorker, which was his 50th wicket in this Twenty 20 format.

–> Shikhar Dhawan completed his 19th fifty and David Warner gone past his 18th fifty in IPL careers as the south paws stood at 5th and 6th respectively in the most fifties scorers list of IPL.

–> David Warner scored his 38th fifty in twenty20 format, equaling Gautam Gambhir and now stands only behind Chris Gayle (46) and Brad Hodge (42).

–>  Dinesh Karthik, with his stumping of Kane Williamson equaled the highest stumpings by a keeper in IPL. He is now equaled with MS Dhoni with 20 stumpings.

–> With that stumping, Karthik equaled with MS Dhoni and Adam Gilchrist for most no. of dismissals by keeper, with 67 dismissals.

–> David Warner received his 19th Man of the match award in Twenty 20 format, jointly the sixth most by any player in the format.