MI keep their hopes alive By a Narrow Victory, KKR in a must win situation- MI v KKR Statistical Review

MI keep their hopes alive By a Narrow Victory, KKR in a must win situation- MI v KKR Statistical Review: The 51^st match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was full of twists and turns and it ultimately ended with the home team, MI being on the winning side. As a result of which, the hopes of Mumbai Indians to qualify for the play offs are still well alive while, on the other hand, after this loss, KKR seems to be in some spots of bother for their place in the play offs. It was a high scoring game at the Wankhede stadium and MI won the match by 5 runs. To get a detailed knowledge about the match, let us dig deep towards the statistical review of the match.

The Match in Numbers:

• Number of fours hit by MI/KKR: 18/19
• Number of sixes hit by MI/KKR: 4/3
• Total number of dot balls bowled by MI/KKR: 43/42
• Total number of wide deliveries bowled by MI/KKR: 7/6
• Total number of no balls bowled by MI/KKR: 0/3
• Highest run scorer of the match: Hardik Pandya (61 runs off 31 deliveries)
• Highest wicket taker in the match: Shakib Al Hasan (4-0-22-2)
• Total number of runs scored in the match: 337/11 in 40 overs.
• Net Run Rate of the match: +0.25 in favour of MI and -0.25 for KKR

Other statistical facts of the match:

• The run rate for Mumbai Indians in the last 5 overs in this particular IPL is 12.4 and that is the highest by any team.
• Kieron Pollard’s strike rate in the match today was 86.84. This happens to be his lowest strike rate in a match in his entire T20 career when he has faced a minimum of 25 deliveries. He scored 33 off 38.
• Rohit Sharma became the second Indian to reach to 5000+ T20 runs today. He has 5019 T20 runs as of now. Raina (5419) was the first person to do so. Rohit stands 10^th in the list of overall players. Gayle tops the list with 7362 runs.
• Yusuf Pathan has scored 25+ scores in four consecutive occasions in this IPL now. He had done this only once prior to this IPL and that was in 2008 for Rajasthan Royals.
• Hardik Pandya’s strike rate in this IPL is the second highest for any batsman with over 100 runs. Russell has the highest strike rate of 193.95. Pandya scored 61 runs today off 31 deliveries with a strike rate of 196.77.
• Rohit Sharma became the only player to score over 500 runs against KKR in the history of IPL.
• Parthiv Patel has been dismissed in the 20s for as many as 20 times. This is the second highest for any player. MS Dhoni being the highest with 22 dismissals in 20s.
• Today’s win ended the losing streak for MI against KKR. They lost to KKR on the 3 previous occasions.
• Today’s win marked the 24^th victory out of 41 matches for Rohit Sharma in the IPL as a captain win a win percentage of 58.53%.
• Lasith Malnga has bowled a total of 110 dot balls in this IPL. This is the highest by any MI player in this IPL. He bowled 10 dot balls today.