IPL 2021, Match 14: PBKS vs SRH, Stats Review: KL Rahul achieves new milestone, Nicholas Pooran's ducks and more stats

Sunrisers Hyderabad have finally registered their first victory of the season in this edition of IPL defeating Punjab Kings by 9 wickets. The Punjab captain won the toss in this game and elected to bat first. The decision did not go in the team’s favour as they got bundled for 120 runs in 19.4 overs. Khaleel Ahmed picked up 3 wickets for 21 runs in his 4 overs.

Chasing this total, David Warner and Jonny Bairstow gave a blistering start to the team adding 73 runs for the opening wicket. SRH chased down the total in 18.4 overs winning the game by 9 wickets. Jonny Bairstow top-scored with 63 runs coming off his bat in 56 balls.

Let’s look at important stats and numbers after the end of the IPL clash between Punjab Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad:

1 – This was the first-ever win for Sunrisers Hyderabad at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. They had lost 6 matches in a row at this venue before today.

2 – KL Rahul completed 5000 T20 runs in today’s match and became the second-fastest player to achieve this milestone. Rahul took 143 innings to reach this landmark only behind Chris Gayle who completed 5000 runs in 132 innings. Among Indian players, he reached the top spot surpassing Virat Kohli (167 innings).

50 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar picked up 1 wicket today, and completed 50 wickets in the powerplay in IPL. He is the third bowler after Sandeep Sharma and Zaheer Khan to get to this feat.

120 – Punjab’s innings total of 120 in today’s match is their joint-second lowest total against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL.

3 – Nicholas Pooran got out for a duck third time in IPL 2021 today. Since 2020, he has bagged the most ducks (4) in IPL along with Shikhar Dhawan.

5 – In the last 5 innings when Punjab Kings have been all out in IPL, three of those innings have come against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

943 – David Warner has now scored 943 runs against Punjab Kings in IPL. This is the second most runs by a player against a particular team in IPL. Only Rohit Sharma is ahead with 982 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders.

12 – This was the 12th win for Sunrisers Hyderabad against Punjab Kings, the most for them against any particular team in IPL.

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