Delhi Daredevils yet again lost wickets in a heap while Mumbai Indians romped to an emphatic 146-run win at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Saturday. Just when one thought that it couldn’t get worse than Delhi’s tame collapse against Kings XI Punjab at Mohali, they outdid themselves in this encounter, and were shot out for 66.
The day kicked off with a thrilling encounter between Steve Smith’s Rising Pune Supergiant and David Warner’s Sunrisers Hyderabad, which saw the former emerge victorious and boost their chances of entering the playoffs.
There were no such problems for Mumbai Indians, who made up for a disappointing previous season by becoming the first team to seal a berth in the playoffs here.
Here are some of the interesting statistics from Saturday’s games:
- Comeback man Lendl Simmons crossed 1000 Indian Premier League runs en route to his match-winning effort of 66. He became the second quickest to achieve the feat, taking just 23 innings to get there. The fastest to reach 1000 runs is Kings XI Punjab’s Shaun Marsh, who took only 21 innings.
- Shreyas Iyer became Mumbai pacer Lasith Malinga’s 150th scalp in the IPL. The Sri Lankan is the first bowler to achieve the feat as he sits pretty at the top of the all-time top wicket-takers list.
- The total (66) was Delhi’s lowest in IPL history, beating the 67 were shot out for by KXIP.
- The margin of victory – 146 runs – is the biggest in the tournament’s 10-year history, beating Royal Challengers Bangalore’s win last year against Gujarat Lions by two runs.
- Mumbai’s win was also the fifth biggest win recorded in a T20 match.
- Mumbai qualified for the playoffs for a record seventh time.
- Sanju Samson joined KXIP’s Hashim Amla and Mumbai Indians’ Parthiv Patel do be dismissed in the first ball of the innings this season.
- All the Daredevils batsmen were out caught, making it only the second such instance in IPL history.
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- Rising Pune Supergiant skipper Steve Smith took 39 balls to bring his first boundary or six – it was a the longest that a batsman took to find the fence.
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s conceded 19 runs in his fourth over and had conceded the same number of runs the last time the two teams faced off too.
- David Warner became the first batsman in IPL history to score over 500 runs in four consecutive editions.
- Left-armers Jaydev Unadkat and James Faulkner are the only bowlers to have two five-wicket hauls in the IPL.
- This was the first instance of the Sunrisers failing to chase down a total under 150. The loss was also their first at home this season.
- Unadkat’s hat-trick is the 17th in the tournament’s history. The left-armer is also the third to achieve the feat this season after RCB’s Samuel Badree and Gujarat Lions’ Andrew Tye.
