IPL 9, Match 31: GL v DD – Statistical Highlights

It looks like the Gujarat Lions are slowly losing their plot towards the playoffs as they suffered back to back defeats at their home ground SCA Stadium, Rajkot. On the other hand, Delhi Daredevils won their 5th game out of the 7 they have played by defeating the home team by 8 wickets. After being put in GL into bat, DD sent back the strong top 3 of Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum and Finch. However, Dinesh Karthik with the help of Ravindra Jadeja and Suresh Raina took GL to a respectable total of 149/7.

Rishabh Pant and Quinton de Kock’s opening partnership gave complete control over the game to DD. At a point it looked like DD will be winning by 10 wickets but the openers got dismissed and they had to settle down to an 8-wicket win. Here we look at all the stats and records recorded during the game.

1 – For the first time in this IPL, Gujarat Lions scored less than 6 an over in powerplay overs. This was also the first time they lost 3 wickets in the powerplay.

6 – Number of century stands DD has in IPL for the opening wicket, the most by any active team in IPL. Banned teams CSK and RR have 7 and 8 century stands for first wicket respectively.

13 – Number of times Ravindra Jadeja managed to score more than 35 runs in a Twenty20 innings. This game was 11th instance in IPL. He scored more than 35 runs twice in CLT20.

18y 212d – Rishabh Pant became the 2nd youngest to score a fifty in IPL. Sanju Samson (at age of 18y 170d) was the youngest to score a fifty in IPL.

27 – Number of times Ravindra Jadeja has been unbeaten in IPL. Only 4 other players have been unbeaten more times in IPL.

27 – Number of innings before this game Ravindra Jadeja played without scoring more than 30 in an IPL innings. Previous instance was in 2014 for CSK vs RR.

58 – Runs scored by DD’s opening pair in the first 6 matches. They scored 115 for the opening wicket in this game which is almost double of that of previous 6 games.

69 – Runs scored by Rishabh Pant in the game. This was his maiden fifty in Twenty20 format. This was also his highest score across all formats. His previous best was 57 vs Bengal in FC game in November, 2015.

115 – Century stand between Quinton de Kock and Rishabh Pant is the 23rd century stand for opening wicket while chasing in IPL.

2000 – Runs scored by Dwayne Smith in IPL. He is the 2nd West Indian in IPL to score over 2000 runs.

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