Both Royal Challengers and Knight Riders are in a desperate need of a win as both the teams have lost their last two matches. While KKR are 5th on the table, RCB are on 7th. KKR have been successful while chasing and RCB have won both their matches by defending the total.
Gautam Gambhir won the toss and chose to field and both the captains were happy as they got to what they do best. Chris Gayle came back into the team after a small break. However, his the small break didn’t have any change in his form as he got out early. Kohli came on No 3 today put up a good partnership with KL Rahul. Both batsmen scored their respective 50s. In the end, there were useful contributions from Watson, Sachin Baby and Stuart Binny, which took the team total to 185/7 in 20 overs.
Coming into chase, the local boy Robin Uthappa couldn’t last long. Gambhir scored important 37 runs. Big hitters Andre Russell and Yusuf Pathan took charge after a rare failure of the KKR top order. In the end, it was the 60 off 29 deliveries from Yusuf Pathan that sealed the game for KKR.
Here’s a look at some interesting numbers and stats from this match –
Orange Cap – Virat Kohli scored yet another 50 and thanks to his innings, Virat got back the Orange Cap. He leads the list of highest run scorers this season with 433 runs in 7 matches. Warner is second on the list with 386 runs in 7 matches.
Chawla Special – Piyush Chawla has got two batsmen out the most number of times in his IPL career, the batsmen are Suresh Raina and AB de Villiers. He has got both of them out on 4 occasions each in IPL.
A most expensive spell in IPL 2016 – Umesh Yadav conceded 56 runs in his spell of 4 overs. This is the second most expensive spell in IPL 2016. Most expensive is by Karn Sharma (57 runs) and on 3rd position is Bhuvneshwar Kumar (55 runs). All the 3 expensive spells of this IPL have come against RCB and all at the same venue i.e. Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Top-order failure – Top order (first 4 batsmen) scored just 61 runs. This is the lowest score Top 4 players have put together in the previous 19 matches KKR has played.
Most run in an over – Yusuf Pathan scored 24 runs off Shane Watson in one over. This is the most number of runs a player has scored in a single over in this season of IPL.