Blog Posts by HR Gopala Krishna

Yuvraj Singh's 66 in this game provide the 50th occasion of a captain scoring a fifty in IPL. His knock represents the first fifty by a Pune captain in IPL. It also represents the fourth occasion of a captain batting at number four scoring a fifty in IPL. It also represents the sixth occasion of a captain scoring a fifty against Delhi in IPL.

Yuvraj Singh's 66 in this game represent the fourth occasion of his scoring a fifty as a captain in IPL.

JD Ryder {60} and Yuvraj Singh {66} scored fifties in this game providing the 69th occasion of two batsmen scoring fifties in IPL and the eighth such occasion in IPL 2011.

V Sehwag's IPL aggregate at the end of this game stood at 1020. He became the 12th   batsman to reach the milestone of 1000 plus runs in IPL. Others are – SK Raina {1437} : SR Tendulkar {1371} : JH Kallis {1319} : AC Gilchrist {1301} : G Gambhir {1202} : RG Sharma {1197} : MS Dhoni {1127} : ML Hayden {1107} : KC Sangakkara {1107} : YK Pathan {1044} and SC Ganguly {1031}.

- Ishant Sharma and DW Steyn were appearing in their 50th and 75th T20 games respectively in this game.

- Deccan Chargers became the second team to play 50 IPL games. This was their 50th match. Bangalore is the other team to play 50 IPL matches. Deccan Chargers became the first team in IPL to suffer 30 losses. They lost this game which was their 30th loss and hold the record for most losses by a team in IPL.

- PC Valthaty captured four wickets conceding 29 runs in this game providing the 31st occasion of a bowler capturing four or more wickets in IPL. His feat provides the third occasion of a Mohali bowler accounting for four wickets in IPL. The other two occasions are - 4 for 32 by YA Abdulla vs Bangalore at Durban on 21.05.08 and 4 for 36 vs Bangalore at Durban on 01.05.09. Thus PC Valthaty's 4 for 29 in this game represent the best bowling figures by a Mohali bowler in IPL.

- PC Valthaty's 4 for 29 in this game represent the eighth occasions of a bowler capturing four or more

- Royal Challengers Bangalore became the first team to play 50 IPL matches. This game was its 50th match.

- MEK Hussey scored 83 not out in this game providing the 23rd occasion of a batsman scoring a fifty in IPL 2011.

- SK Raina and S Badrinath were playing their 49th IPL game and hold the record for most appearances in IPL.

- SK Raina extended his run aggregate to 1437 with his 29 in this game and holds the record for most runs in IPL. His T20 run aggregate stands at 2149 at the end of this game.

- SK Raina hit one six in this game and took his aggregate of sixes in IPL to 62. He is on par with YK Pathan who also has 62 sixes to his credit and share the record for most sixes in IPL. AC Gilchrist with 61 sixes is close behind these two batsmen.

- JA Morkel who has played most T20 games - 141 - extended this to 142 by appearing in this game.

- JA Morkel who had an aggregate of 114 wickets in T20 games prior to this game extended this total to 116 with his two wickets in

- SR Tendulkar scored 100 not out in this game. It was his maiden hundred in IPL. His previous best was 89 not out against Jaipur at Jaipur on 11.04.10.

- SR Tendulkar's 100 not out in this game represent his tenth fifty in IPL. He became the second batsman to score ten or more fifties in IPL. JH Kallis {13} is the other batsman to score ten or more fifties in IPL.

- SR Tendulkar scored 100 not out in this game provide the 16th occasion of a captain scoring a hundred in T20 games. He became the first Indian captain to score a hundred in T20 games. The previous best by an Indian captain in T20 games was 94 not out by V Sehwag of Delhi vs Hyderabad at Hyd-RGS on 22.04.08.

- SR Tendulkar's 100 not out in this game provide the 14th occasion of a batsman scoring a hundred in IPL. The complete list read thus - 158* by BB McCullum of Kolkata vs Bangalore at Bangalore on 18.04.08: 116* by MEK Hussey of Chennai vs Mohali at Mohali on 19.04.08: 117* by A Symonds of Hyderabad vs Jaipur at

R Dravid's IPL aggregate stood at 999 at the end of this game. He needs one more run for his 1000 IPL runs.

SK Warne and MS Dhoni share the record of most captaincy assignments in IPL – 45 – at the end of this game. This game was the 45th captaincy assignment for SK Warne.

LRPL Taylor who owns the record of most boundary sixes in T20 games with 160 sixes to his credit extended the same to 162 with two sixes in this game. 

G Gambhir scored 75 not out in this game providing the 46th occasion of a captain scoring a fifty in IPL. His knock provides the tenth occasion of a Kolkata captain scoring a fifty in IPL. Kolkota captains hold the record for scoring most fifties in IPL – SC Ganguly {07} : BB McCullum {02} and G Gambhir {01}. They went past Mumbai captain who have scored nine fifties in IPL – all by SR Tendulkar.

JH Kallis and G Gambhir added 160 runs in an unfinished stand for the second wicket in this game providing the record partnership for any wicket in IPL. The previous best

- BB McCullum and VVS Laxman scored ducks in this game providing the sixth occasion of both the openers scoring zeroes in IPL.

- BB McCullum was dismissed by the first ball of the match providing the eleventh occasion of a batsman dismissed by the first ball of the match in IPL and the third such occasion in IPL 2011.

- VVS Laxman collected his fouth duck in IPL while BB McCullum collected his third duck in IPL.

- At the end of this game BJ Hodge's T20 run aggregate stood at 3471. He needs six more runs to surpass DJ Hussey's aggregate of 3476 which is the record for most runs in T20 games.

- BJ Hodge with his two boundary fours in this game extended his aggregate of boundary fours in T20 games to 373 - a record for most boundary fours by a batsman in T20 games.

- AC Thomas with a lone wicket in this game took his T20 aggregate of wickets to 115 and stands to second in the list of most wickets takers in T20 games. DP Nannes with 134 wickets to his credit tops the list.

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- MS Dhoni who became the first captain to lead in 75 T20 games extended his record to 76 games by leading Chennai in this game. AC Gilchrist is the other captain to lead a team in 51 T20 games. This game was AC Gilchrist's 51st game as captain in T20 games.

- MS Dhoni now owns the record for leading a team in IPL on most occasions. This game was his 45th game of leading Chennai. He went past SK Warne who has led Jaipur on 44 occasions.

- S Badrinath and SK Raina share the record for most capped cricketer in IPL> Both have appeared in 48 games.

- S Aniruddha was dismissed by the first ball of the match in this game providing the tenth occasion of a batsman dismissed by the first ball of the match in IPL. He became the second batsman to suffer such an ignominy in IPL 2011. MA Agarwal of Bangalore was dismissed by the first ball of the match against Mumbai on at Bangalore on 12.04.11.

- S Aniruddha and SK Raina collected the first ball duck in this game taking number of occasions

- MA Agarwal collected the first ball duck in this game providing the 27th occasion of an opening batsman dismissed by the first ball he faced in IPL. Break up edition wise - IPL 2008 {05} : IPL 2009 {14} and IPL 2010 {06} and IPL 2011 {02}.

- MA Agarwal became the second batsman in IPL 2011 to collect the first ball duck. GC Smith of Pune collected the first ball duck against Kings Eleven Punjab at Mum-DYP on 10.04.11 was the other batsman to suffer such an ignominy.

- Royal Challengers Bangalore was playing its 48th IPL game when it met Mumbai Indian at Bangalore today. Other team to play 48 IPL games is Deccan Chargers.

- This game was TM Dilshan's 80th T20 game. He became the 36th cricketer to appear in 80 plus T20 games.

- TM Dilshan and AB de Villiers added 91 runs for the third wicket in this game providing the highest stand for any wicket in the ongoing 2011 edition. The previous best was the 80 runs stand between BB McCullum and VVS Laxman for Kochi Tuskers Kerala vs