IPL 9, Match 11: RCB v DD – Statistical Highlights

Delhi Daredevils registered their 2nd win in the ongoing season of IPL as they defeated the home team Royal Challengers Bangalore by 7 wickets. After been put into bat, RCB managed to put on 191/5 in their 20 overs. Virat Kohli top scored with 79 while AB de Villiers and Shane Watson chipped in with useful contributions. But a brilliant comeback from DD in last 4 overs cost RCB at least 20 runs.

Chasing 192 to win, they lost Iyer and Samson early but Quinton de Kock kept going along with the required rate. Karun Nair started slowly but picked his pace in middle of the innings. De Kock brought up his century while Nair scored an unbeaten 54 and completed the chase with 5 balls to spare. Here we look at all the stats and records recorded during the game.

4 – Virat Kohli became the 3rd Indian to score 4 or more consecutive fifty plus scores in Twenty20 cricket. Virender Sehwag (5) and Ajinkya Rahane (4) are the other two.

5 – For the first time in his Twenty20 career, Chris Gayle got out in single digit.

5 – Number of individual centuries scored against RCB in IPL. 6 centuries have been scored against KKR in IPL, the most against any team.

6 – Number of individual centuries scored for DD in IPL. Only RCB and KXIP have more with 7 centuries. Last century for DD was scored by David Warner in May, 2012.

8 – Number of consecutive matches DD lost to RCB in IPL before today. Their last win vs RCB came in April, 2010.

10 – Number of century stands Virat Kohli has been involved in IPL. Only Chris Gayle (12) has been a part of more century stands than Kohli.

14 – Number of century stands Virat Kohli has been involved in, in Twenty20 format, the joint most among Indians. Gautam Gambhir has also been involved in 14 century stands in this format.

23y 122d – Quinton de Kock is now the 2nd youngest player to score a century in IPL. Manish Pandey scored a century at the age of 19y 253d in 2009.

41 – Number of fifty plus scores Virat Kohli has in Twenty20 format, the joint most by an Indian.

50 – Runs conceded by Zaheer Khan in his 4 overs. Only once he has conceded more than 50 before today. Against KKR he conceded 53 runs in his 4 overs while playing for RCB in 2011.

75 – Virat Kohli is now the first batsman to score 4 consecutive 75+ scores in T20 cricket. Marcus Trescothick, Mahela Jayawardene and Glenn Maxwell have 3 consecutive 75+ scores in this format.

191 – RCB’s score in this game. In the last 3 instances when RCB batted first at Chinnaswamy, they scored more than 200.

192 – This is DD’s highest successful run chase. Their previous highest was 188 vs Pune Warriors India in 2011.

1653 – Runs scored by Virat Kohli at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore in T20 format, the most runs scored by a player in T20s at a single venue. He overhauled Samit Patel who has 1595 runs in Trent Bridge.

2036 – Runs scored by AB de Villiers for RCB in IPL. He became the 3rd RCB player to score 2000 and more runs in IPL for them.

How did the match pan out? – IPL 9 Match 11 Review: Quinton de Kock pummels RCB in their own backyard