RCB Cruise Over the Royals Army in the Eliminator RCB Vs. RR- Statistical Review

RCB Cruise Over the Royals Army in the Eliminator RCB Vs. RR- Statistical Review: It was the clash of the Royals against the Royal Challengers at Pune in the big occasion of the Eliminator. Opting to bat first, RCB openers in the likes of Gayle and Kohli did not manage to pose the swiftest of the starts initially. Kohli seemed to be a bit occupied by pressure which affected his performance. The dismissal of both the openers did put RCB in definite spots of bother but the splendid centurion partnership between AB de Villiers and Uncapped Pro, Mandeep Singh set the tone for them and they posed a total of 180 runs on the board.

The target was never going to be easy and RR needed a desperate start to poise things up well. But it was the uncapped brilliance of Sreenath Arvind who set the early mood on in favour of RCB by dismissing the in form Shane Watson right in the second over of the innings. Wickets kept on falling from one end but it was Rahane who wasn’t ready to give up till the last delivery of the 14^th over when he was caught by the safest pair of hands in the park of AB de Villiers. This managed to enforce the last nail into the RR coffin.

As a conclusion, RCB march on to Ranchi to play CSK in the second Qualifier.

The Match in Numbers:

• Number of Fours hit by RCB/RR: 15/10

• Number of Sixes hit by RCB/RR: 7/0

• Total Number of dot balls bowled by RCB/RR: 51/47

• Total Number of wide deliveries bowled by RCB/RR: 2/5

• Highest Run scorer of the Match: AB de Villiers (66 runs off 38 deliveries with 4 fours and 4 sixes)

• Highest Wicket Taker of the Match: S. Arvind (4-0-20-2)

• Total Number of Runs Scored in the Match: 289/14 in 39 overs.

• Runs Scored by Each team in the power-play overs: RCB – 41/1 and RR – 40/2

• Match Result: RCB won by 71 runs

The other statistical facts of the match goes:

• AB de Villiers and Ajinkya Rahane became the second and third player to have scored 500+ runs in this IPL so far respectively.

• AB de Villiers became the 5^th overseas player to have hit over 100 sixes in IPL history. AB has hit 104 sixes. Gayle tops the chart with 227 sixes.

• RCB managed to score 60 runs in the first 10 overs today. This is perhaps their joint lowest of this very season.

• Prior to today’s game, RCB and RR had won 7 games each in their last 15 matches with one game being washed out.

• The partnership between Gayle and Kohli scored 2314 runs in this particular IPL. This is the highest partnership by any pair ever.

• This marked de Villiers’ third fifty against RR in the last four innings against them.

• The partnership between AB de Villiers and Mandeep Singh contributed 113 runs off 67 deliveries which is one of the highest by RCB for the 3^rd wicket.

• Mandeep Singh became the 4th batsman to score a half century for RCB in this season. Gayle, Kohli and de Villiers have managed to score half centuries before him.

• RCB scored 86 runs in their last 36 deliveries which is one of the highest and perhaps the game changing one.

• This is the first time in this IPL that RCB did not concede a single SIX in the entire match. This shows their epitome amount of discipline in the game.

• This marked Kohli’s 27^th victory out of 55 matches as an IPL captain taking his win percentage to 53.84%. Also, this is his first victory in a play off match as a captain.

• Gayle scored a total of 27 runs tonight which takes his total T20 runs to 7398 runs.

All stats updated till 20th May 2015.