30th April
Quick Stats : Match 42 – PWI vs CSK | Raina starts 2500 runs club in IPL!
3: Number of fifties scored by Pune Warriors India batsmen in 10 matches in IPL 2013 – all three have come off Aaron Finch’s bat!
4: Number of batsmen who were run-out at non-striker end while backing up too far. Luke Wright joins Mitchell Marsh, Mahela Jayawardene and Dinesh Karthik in getting out in this unfortunate fashion.
6: Consecutive matches won by Chennai Super Kings – most by any side in IPL 2013.
25: Pune Warriors India’s win-percentage at Pune (3 wins in 12 games) – second worst for any side at a home ground in IPL. Deccan Chargers had a win-percentage of 16.66 at Hyderabad (3 wins in 18 games).
55: Number of sixes conceded by Pune Warriors India – most by any side in IPL 2013.
2513: Runs scored by Suresh Raina in IPL – first player to reach 2,500-run mark in IPL
29 April 2013
Quick Stats : Match 41- MI vs KXIP – David Hussey amongst elite 5000 runs Club
4: Number of fifties scored by Rohit Sharma in IPL 2013 – most by any batsman, along with Chennai Super Kings’ Michael Hussey.
9: Number of batsmen who got out caught in Kings XI Punjab’s innings – second such instance in IPL 2013. Interestingly the earlier instance was also for Kings XI Punjab- vs Chennai Super Kings at Mohali.
19: Number of fifties scored by Rohit Sharma in IPL – most by any batsman along with Gautam Gambhir who also has 19.
19: Number of overs for which Kings XI Punjab were ahead of Mumbai Indians. It was 20th over that made all the difference. While Mumbai Indians scored 27 runs off their last over, Kings XI Punjab could get only 12.
23: Number of sixes hit by Rohit Sharma in IPL 2013 – second most by any batsman, after Chris Gayle (36).
28: Number of balls taken by Rohit Sharma to reach his fifty – fastest by a Mumbai Indians batsman in IPL 2013.
100: Percent- Mumbai Indians’ win record at Wankhede in IPL 2013 – four out of four.
105: Number of sixes hit by Rohit Sharma in IPL- second most by any batsmen after Chris Gayle (165).
628: Runs scored by Rohit Sharma in IPL matches at Wankhede – most by any batsman. He went ahead of Sachin Tendulkar’s tally of 625 runs.
5020: Runs scored by David Hussey in Twenty20 matches. He became only the third batsman to go past 5000 runs after Brad Hodge (5443) and Chris Gayle (5288)
28 April 2013
Dhoni fined for slow over-rate
Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni has been fined after the team
maintained a slow over rate during this evening’s Pepsi IPL match
against Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai.
At the end of the match, Chennai Super Kings were assessed to be two
overs behind the required rate after allowances were taken into
consideration.
Since it was his first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of
Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Mr. Dhoni was fined
US$20,000.
23rd April 2013
There are raging Twenty20 innings and there are ones like Chris Gayle played when he scored the fastest century ever in Cricket. Pune Warriors captain Aaron Finch had won the toss and asked Royal Challengers Bangalore to bat. Gayle then slammed an unbeaten 175 off 66 balls, in the process breaking a sequence of records, to power Royal Challengers to 263 for 5.
21st April 2013
Luke Wright in his IPL Debut for Pune Warriors :
1st ball : Four
2nd Ball : Four
3rd Ball : Four
4th Ball : Four
5th Ball : Four
6th Ball : Four
7th Ball : Two
8th Ball : Six
9th Ball : Two
18th April 2013
Today it was CSK vs Delhi at delhi… but it started off like the usual CSK match. Hussey and Murali Vijay used the power-play really well scoring at a brisk rate from the very start, though Murali got out halfway through it. However once Raina came in the show really got on the road. Jeevan Mendis was also in the squad but didnt bowl. Must have been due to an injury. And the rest of the innings went on the usual CSK fashion too. After the tenth over they stepped on the gas. There was just one casualty where Raina edged out a tip catch at the 12th over. But once Dhoni and Hussey got it on it was carnage. Morkel who had bowled some real good balls with the new ball was utterly decimated ending with an economy rate of 10.5. Though Dhoni got out eventually in the 19th over caught by Mendis the damage was done. Chennai had scored 169.
Another amazing thing about the game was that Simon Taufel commentated. In the first innings he partnered with Harsha Bhogle. Talking about commentary Sanjay Manjrekar spared no expense in bashing Mahela for the team’s performance. And unfortunately things didnt go Delhis way at all – both Warner and the one down batsman Juneja got out going for the big shots though they did play aggressive cricket… Mahela came in around the sixth over and there was this ball that seemed to be caught where Dhoni was very vocal in his appeal. But the umpire declined it. It was very close to call, but Sanjay Manjrekar didnt waste a moment to start imposing his ideas about how guilty Mahela was and all. Even Simon Taufel himself said it was too close to call. Unfortunately Mahela got out two balls later. And the rest of the batting crumbled too.
