Super Sunday – we had two matches today. The first match was between Gujarat Lions and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Gujarat Lions came into this match after a defeat to Sunrisers Hyderabad. They wanted to get back to winning ways. Even Bangalore wanted a win to push them further up the table.
In the second match, Rising Pune Supergiants played Kolkata Knight Riders. Kolkata Knight Riders is flying high. They wanted nothing less than a win to cement their position in the top half of the table. Pune won only one game so far in IPL 2016. They were desperate to win a game and climb the table. Pietersen’s injury only made their matters worse.
Virat Kohli played a brilliant knock today and scored his first T20 century. With this century, he fired himself to the top of the leading run-scorers chart. He leads the chart with 367 runs with a strike rate of 143.92. Lokesh Rahul scored a well-paced fifty as well.
Also read: IPL 2016: Highest Run-Scorers, Wicket-Takers after Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians
McCullum scored a quick-fire 42 out of 24 balls. He set the ball rolling for Gujarat Lions. Dinesh Karthik hit a half-century and ensured that Gujarat Lions crossed the line.
Rahane played well in the second game and pushed himself to number six on the run-scorers chart. Dhoni played a cameo at the end to propel the score to 160.
IPL 2016 Highest Run-Scorers | ||||||||
Positon | Player | Matches | Innings | NO | Runs | HS | Average | SR |
1 | Virat Kohli | 5 | 5 | 1 | 367 | 100* | 91.75 | 143.92 |
2 | David Warner | 5 | 5 | 2 | 294 | 90* | 98.00 | 168.00 |
3 | AB de Villiers | 5 | 5 | 0 | 269 | 83 | 53.80 | 170.25 |
4 | Gautam Gambhir | 5 | 5 | 2 | 237 | 90* | 79.00 | 123.43 |
5 | Rohit Sharma | 6 | 6 | 1 | 230 | 84* | 46.00 | 136.90 |
6 | Ajinkya Rahane | 5 | 5 | 1 | 223 | 67 | 55.75 | 132.73 |
7 | Quinton de Kock | 4 | 4 | 1 | 193 | 108 | 64.33 | 175.45 |
8 | Aaron Finch | 5 | 4 | 1 | 191 | 74 | 63.66 | 135.46 |
9 | Francois du Plessis | 5 | 5 | 0 | 176 | 69 | 35.20 | 124.82 |
10 | Suresh Raina | 5 | 5 | 0 | 174 | 75 | 34.80 | 133.84 |
GL’s bowlers had an ordinary day today. They started well in the first six overs but Virat Kohli played a gem of an innings and pushed the score to 180. Ravindra Jadeja was the standout performer for Gujarat Lions.
Shane Watson picked a wicket and stays at number five in the top wicket-takers chart. Tabraiz Shamsi had a decent game and picked up the important wicket of Brendon McCullum.
Shakib Al Hasan had a good game. He dismissed Faf du Plessis with a beautiful delivery.
Perera tried to win the game for Pune but it was not to be today. Umesh Yadav of all people hit a six to finish the match in style. This match was a cracker.
Mitchell McClenaghan of Mumbai Indians still leads the chart with nine wickets.
IPL 2016 Top Wicket-Takers | |||||||||
Position | Player | Matches | Innings | Overs | Runs | Wickets | BBI | Average | Economy |
1 | Mitchell McClenaghan | 6 | 6 | 22.3 | 183 | 9 | 4/21 | 20.33 | 8.13 |
2 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 5 | 5 | 20.0 | 167 | 8 | 4/29 | 20.87 | 8.35 |
3 | Mustafizur Rahman | 5 | 5 | 20.0 | 115 | 7 | 2/9 | 16.42 | 5.75 |
4 | Amit Mishra | 4 | 4 | 12.0 | 72 | 7 | 4/11 | 10.28 | 6.00 |
5 | Murugan Ashwin | 5 | 5 | 18.0 | 144 | 7 | 3/36 | 20.57 | 8.00 |
6 | Shane Watson | 5 | 5 | 19.3 | 157 | 7 | 2/25 | 22.42 | 8.05 |
7 | Dwayne Bravo | 5 | 5 | 19.0 | 173 | 6 | 4/22 | 28.83 | 9.10 |
8 | Sandeep Sharma | 5 | 5 | 15.0 | 101 | 5 | 2/23 | 20.20 | 6.73 |
9 | Umesh Yadav | 4 | 4 | 12.0 | 82 | 5 | 3/28 | 16.40 | 6.83 |
10 | Pravin Tambe | 4 | 4 | 11.0 | 86 | 5 | 2/12 | 17.20 | 7.81 |
Good fielding will give you an advantage. Whereas, great fielding will win you matches. We have seen some exceptional fielding in IPL so far.
Ravindra Jadeja had the Freecharge Bolt Moment of match one. Pune was excellent in the field as well. AB de Villiers has the most catches in IPL 9. While, Parthiv Patel has the most dismissals as a wicketkeeper. Watson-Weise relay catch is the best catch in IPL 2016 so far.
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