IPL 9, Match 15: GL v SRH – Statistical Highlights

Gujarat Lions’ 3-match winning streak got breached at their home ground by the Sunrisers Hyderabad with a brilliant 10-wicket win. After been put into bat, GL managed to put on 135/8 in their 20 overs with their captain Suresh Raina being the top contributor with 75.

SRH chased down the target without sweating much. David Warner continued his good form and scored 74 while Shikhar Dhawan scored 53 after consecutive low scores. Here we look at all the stats and records recorded during the game.

1 – Number of sixes hit in this game. This is the highest aggregated match (272 runs) in IPL which had 1 or no sixes.

1 – For the first time in Twenty20 cricket, both Suresh Raina and David Warner scored a fifty plus score without hitting a six. Warner has 53 fifty plus scores while Raina has 37.

3 – Number of matches Gujarat Lions played in IPL before tasting their first defeat. Only Chennai Super Kings (4) played more matches before losing one.

3 – Shikhar Dhawan became the 3rd player in IPL to score a fifty in his 100th match. Rohit Sharma and Ambati Rayudu are other two.

4 – Number of century stands recorded between the Dhawan-Warner pair in IPL. Only Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli (6) have been part or more century stands in IPL.

4 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar picked up his 2nd 4-wicket haul in T20 cricket; both his 4-wicket hauls have come for the Sunrisers Hyderabad.

8 – Number of 75+ scores Suresh Raina has in IPL, the joint 3rd most. Only Chris Gayle and David Warner have more 75+ scores than Raina in IPL.

8 – For the 8th time, a 10-wicket win has been recorded in IPL. This is the first 10-wicket win for Sunrisers Hyderabad.

10 – Number of times Dhawan and Warner were part of a century stand in IPL. Only Chris Gayle (12) has been part or more century stands in IPL.

3.75 – Ravindra Jadeja’s average across all formats vs Mustafizur Rahman. He scored 15 runs in 28 balls against Mustafizur and got out 4 times.

27 – Number of fifty-plus scores Suresh Raina has in IPL, the joint 2nd most.

28 – Number of fifty-plus scores David Warner has in IPL, the joint most. Gautam Gambhir also has 28.

30 – Number of Twenty20 innings Suresh Raina played before this game without scoring a fifty. His last fifty in this format came in May, 2015 vs RCB for CSK. Since then he scored 603 runs in 30 innings at an average of 24.12.

53 – Number of 30 plus scores Suresh Raina have recorded in IPL, the most by any player. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli stand next in the list with 50 each.

75 – Suresh Raina’s 75 is the 2nd highest individual score in IPL without a six. Mandeep Singh’s 77* vs Pune Warriors in 2013 is the highest.

100 – Shikhar Dhawan became the 19th player to feature in 100 IPL matches.

304 – Number of fours Shikhar Dhawan has hit in IPL. He became only the 5th batsman to hit 300 fours in IPL.

6073 – Runs scored by Suresh Raina in Twenty20 cricket. He became the 1st Indian and 5th in overall to complete 6000 runs in this format.

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