England Vs Australia – First Test at Birmingham; June 16-20; 2023 Statistical Amazers


James Anderson managed only 1 wicket in the first Test vs Australia off his 38 overs in total for the match.

This is only the 18th instance in his 180 Tests career in which he has claimed just one wicket. He has also gone wicketless in 11 tests.

He has claimed 27 wickets in his last 6 Test matches prior to this Test.

This is also only the second instance in which he has claimed just 1 wicket among the 14 Tests he has played in the month of June. He has claimed 64 wickets in Test matches played in June alone.

He has also only claimed 52 wickets in Birmingham in 14 tests though he once had a spell of 41 wickets in 7 Tests in Birmingham from 2008 – 2018. Outside this spell, he has had modest returns in Birmingham in Test cricket.

Vivo IPL 2021 Qualifier 2 Delhi Capitals Vs Kolkata Knight Riders October 13, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Lockie Ferguson (1-26) has been among the wickets in all matches he has played in this IPL so far (7 matches and 13 wickets).
  2. Eoin Morgan scored his fourth duck in 15 innings in this tournament. He has scored just 129 runs at an average of 11.73 and at a strike rate below 100 as well.
  3. Dinesh Karthik scored his first duck in this IPL and 12th in his overall IPL career spanning 14 seasons.
  4. This is the first finals appearance of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) since they won the tournament in 2014.
  5. Avesh Khan finished with 24 wickets and was among the wickets in all but 2 matches in the tournament.
  6. For the second consecutive match KKR successfully chased a target in the 130s and making an interesting instance of three different teams scoring in the 130s in the last two matches.
  7. This is the first instance in the tournament in which Delhi Capitals (DC) have scored in the 130s (batting first and chasing) and lost the match.
  8. Shikhar Dhawan who was the Orange cap holder for majority of the tournament fittingly top scored for DC with 36 runs.
  9. Both teams had exactly five bowlers bowling and only one from each side finished wicketless (Narine for KKR and Patel for DC) having bowled their full quota of overs.
  10. Venkatesh Iyer finished the tournament with back-to-back fifties, 370 runs overall in the tournament (fourth leading run getter for KKR having played 7 games less than their leading run getter, Shubman Gill).

Vivo IPL 2021 Eliminator 1 Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Kolkata Knight Riders October 11, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Harshal Patel (2-19) is unchallenged for the purple cap with 32 wickets in 15 matches.
  2. Virat Kohli’s 39 was the team’s top score as the team scored just 138 runs. Interestingly, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has lost all the matches in which they scored 148 runs or less in this IPL.
  3. Kohli’s 39 is his best score in his last 5 innings since his 51 against Mumbai Indians.
  4. RCB did not hit any sixes in their innings. The first six of the match was scored in the second over of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) innings by Venkatesh Iyer.
  5. Sunil Narine, who had a sub-par tournament so far struck form and picked up 4 wickets, his first four wicket haul of the tournament. He is now eighth in the all-time leading wicket takers list in IPL.
  6. Lockie Ferguson (2-30) has been among the wickets in all matches he has played in this IPL so far (6 matches and 12 wickets).
  7. This is the fourth instance of Eoin Morgan remaining unbeaten in this tournament and on all those occasions, KKR has successfully chased the target.
  8. Mohammed Siraj’s wicket of Sunil Narine and Dinesh Karthik (RCB’s last 2 wickets in IPL 2021) were just his 10th and 11th wickets in 15 matches in this tournament.
  9. Karthik was also Siraj’s 50th IPL wicket.
  10. RCB has never been to an IPL final since 2016, so their quest for their first IPL tournament win continues.
  11. Harshal Patel finished with 32 wickets and is also tied with Dwayne Bravo for all-time record of 32 wickets in a single IPL season.
  12. AB de Villiers (11), ever since his unbeaten 75 against Delhi Capitals in April, has scored just 109 runs in 9 innings.

Vivo IPL 2021 Qualifier 1 (N) Delhi Capitals Vs Chennai Super Kings October 10, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Rututaj Gaekwad won his fourth Player of the Match, the most by any player in IPL 2021.
  2. The match witnessed as many as four different batsmen scoring half centuries contributing to 65% of Delhi Capitals (DC) team total as much as 76% of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) team total.
  3. The match also witnessed the other part in which 5 of the 11 batsmen dismissed scoring in single digits.
  4. Shardul Thakur, who has never batted higher than number 8 in IPL was sent in to bat at number 4 and managed only a golden duck. His 8-match streak of being among the wickets also came to an end in this match.
  5. Deepak Chahar did not claim any wickets in this match and has gone wicketless in 7 of the 14 matches in this IPL, so far.
  6. Avesh Khan (1-47) was back among wickets, after having only his second wicketless game in the previous match. He remains the second leading wicket taker in this series with 28 wickets.
  7. MS Dhoni’s 18 is his best score in this IPL and he has scored those runs thrice in this IPL. His 114 runs is the least he has scored in any of his 14 IPL seasons, so far.
  8. Ruturaj Gaekwad (70) becomes only the second batsman to scope 600 runs in IPL 2021. He needs 24 more runs to take the top spot.
  9. Dwayne Bravo is now joint second leading wicket taker in IPL overall with 166 wickets. He needs 5 more wickets to take the top spot.
  10. Robin Uthappa’s 63 was his first half century since the 2019 IPL and in innings since then.
  11. Prithvi Shaw (60) has now entered the top ten run getters list with 108 runs in his last 2 innings. He needs just 39 runs to get to the 500-run club.
  12. Shreyas Iyer has now been dismissed in back-to-back matches against CSK by Josh Hazlewood for single digits (2 and 1).

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 56 Delhi Capitals Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore October 8, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Avesh Khan had just his second wicketless match among the 14 he played in this tournament. He is still however the second leading wicket taker of the tournament with 22 wickets.
  2. Harshal Patel (1-34) is running away with the Purple cap with 30 wickets in 14 matches.
  3. Yuzvendra Chahal (1-34) has now claimed 12 wickets in 8 matches since the tournament restart in the UAE. In the first leg in India, he had claimed only 4 wickets in 7 matches.
  4. AB de Villiers (26), ever since his unbeaten 75 against Delhi Capitals in April, has scored just 98 runs in 8 innings.
  5.  Devdutt Padikkal (0) registered his second duck and missed a chance to get past 400 runs in this IPL.
  6. Glenn Maxwell (51*) has hit good form with a string of good scores including four half centuries in his last 5 innings. He, however missed to reach the 500 runs tally in this tournament by 2 runs and remains in the top run getters list.
  7. Shikhar Dhawan’s 43 is his best in his last 6 innings. He is still among the top 5 run getters in this tournament and in the third position with 544 runs.
  8. Virat Kohli has scored just 59 runs in his last 4 innings 
  9. Srikar Bharat (78*) scored his first IPL half century and won his first Player of the match award as well.
  10. Prithvi Shaw top scored for Delhi Capitals with 48, but he missed a chance to get his third half century in this edition. His score is also his best in UAE (in 5 innings) since the tournament restart.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 55 Mumbai Indians Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad October 8, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Suryakumar Yadav (82) finally came to the run getting party scoring in just 40 deliveries. He finished the tournament with just 2 fifties, one in match number 2 and one in match number 14.
  2. Ishan Kishan (84) continued his return to form with two back-to-back fifties. He also scored the fastest fifty of IPL 2021 so far, f just 16 deliveries, going past his teammate Keiron Pollard.
  3. Mumbai Indians now has 3 batsmen in the top 10 fastest fifty list (Ishan Kishan, Keiron Pollard and Suryakumar Yadav).
  4.  Jason Holder (4-52) finished his tournament with 16 wickets in 8 matches, including his IPL career best bowling figures in this match.
  5. Sunrisers Hyderabad’s streak of 5 successive play-offs appearances in IPL came to an end in this edition.
  6. Mumbai Indians have now missed the playoffs only for the fifth time in 14 editions of IPL
  7. Jasprit Bumrah continued his streak of being among the wickets in every match since the tournament re-start in the UAE with 15 wickets in his last 7 matches. He has now claimed 21 wickets in the tournament and finished as the third leading wicket taker pee-playoffs.
  8. Mumbai Indians’ 235 is the highest total posted by any team in IPL 2021. This is also the second instance in which they scored more than 200 runs in their innings.
  9. Two teams, including Mumbai Indians in this match have now scored 220 or more runs against Sun Risers Hyderabad in this IPL. The other team being Rajasthan Royals.
  10. Rashid Khan finished the match with an expensive 40 runs of his four overs, but overall, he finished the tournament as the sixth leading wicket taker pee-playoffs and with a miserly economy of 6.69.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 54 Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Rajasthan Royals October 7, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Shubman Gill (56) followed his first fifty in IPL 2021 (in 13 innings (in the last match with a back-to-back half Century, scored his first fifty in IPL 2021 in his 13th game. This is his ninth IPL 50 as well.
  2. Rajasthan Royals (85) could not score even half of what Kolkata Knight Riders (171) scored.
  3. Rajasthan Royals (RR) now has the two lowest team totals in IPL 2021, 85 in this match and 90 in an earlier game as well.
  4. Rahul Tewatia’s 44 coming to bat at number 7 was the highest score for RR and among the only two batsmen to score in double digits for the team
  5. Shivam Mavi (4-21) claimed his IPL career best. Though he has claimed just 20 wickets in the 23 matches he has played so far, he has had a successful IPL 2021 having been among wickets in all but 1 of the 6 matches he played.
  6. Sunil Narine (0-30) has now been wicketless in 5 of the 11 matches in IPL 2021.
  7. Varun Chakravarthy (1-14) on the other end has had a successful tournament with 16 wickets in 14 matches and has been wicketless only on four of those matches.
  8. Venkatesh Iyer (38 of 35 deliveries) has been having a declining strike rate since his third IPL innings as it has dropped from 155.56 to 129.19
  9. Lockie Ferguson (3-18) has been among wickets on all the 5 matches he has played in IPL 2021, claiming 10 wickets, so far.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 53 Chennai Super Kings Vs Punjab Kings October 7, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Ruturaj Gaekwad’s 12 is his lowest score in his lasty 7 innings and has scored just 25 runs in his last 2 innings. He (546 runs) also lost the lead to KL Rahul (626 runs) for the maximum runs in this IPL so far.
  2. Faf du Plessis (76) scored a fifty after a gap of 7 innings. He overtook his fellow opening batsman (Ruturaj) as the second leading run getter in this IPL so far.
  3. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have now lost three matches in a row for the first time in this IPL.
  4. This is the third instance in this IPL where Rahul had scored in the nineties. This is the second instance of he being unbeaten in the nineties as well.
  5.  5 of the 10 batsmen dismissed in the match from both sides scored single digits.
  6. Shardul Thakur (3-28) is continuing to have a good tournament since restart in the UAE claiming 11 wickets in 7 matches. His 3-28 is also his best in this IPL
  7. Dwayne Bravo who has been among wickets in all the matches since the tournament restart in the UAE with 9 wickets had his streak end as he went wicketless and expensive too giving away 32 runs in his 2 overs.
  8. MS Dhoni (12) has scored just 96 runs in 10 innings in this IPL at an average of 13.71.
  9. Robin Uthappa (2) playing for his sixth IPL team in 14 seasons has scored just 21 runs in his 2 innings.
  10. Arshdeep Singh (2-35) moved into the top 5 wicket takers list with 18 wickets so far in this tournament, tied with CSK’s Shardul Thakur as well.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 52 Sunrisers Hyderabad Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore October 6, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Harshal Patel, the leading wicket taker in this tournament was among the wickets again (3-33). He has claimed 29 wickets. He has claimed wickets in all but two of the 13 matches he has played in this tournament so far.
  2. Kane Williamson (31) overtook Johnny Bairstow as the leading run getter for Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in this tournament with 266 runs in 10 innings.  Bairstow however had scored his 248 runs in just 7 innings before pulling out of the tournament.
  3. Yuzvendra Chahal (1-27) had claimed only 4 wickets in 7 matches in the first leg in India. Since the restart in the UAE, he has claimed 11 wickets in 6 matches.
  4. Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1-25) has not claimed more than 1 wicket in any of the 11 matches he has played in this tournament so far. He also has a sub-par tally of just 6 wickets.
  5. All SRH bowlers claimed a wicket each in this match.
  6. The win is just the third in 13 matches for SRH and they avoid a hattrick of losses.
  7. Williamson won his fifth Player of the match award and his first in this edition. This also is his third against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).
  8. Virat Kohli has been dismissed for exactly 5 rus already thrice in this IPL. He has also scored just 55 runs in his last 3 innings as Glenn Maxwell and Devdutt Padikkal have gone past him in terms of total runs aggregate in this tournament.
  9. Mohammed Siraj has now been wicketless in 9 of the 13 matches he has played in this edition.
  10. AB de Villiers (19*) in addition to not being able to win the match in the last over, is continuing to have a quiet tournament and ever since his unbeaten 75 against Delhi Capitals in April, has scored just 72 runs in 7 innings.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 51 Rajasthan Royals Vs Mumbai Indians October 5, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Rajasthan Royals’ team total of 90/9 is the lowest ever posted by a team in IPL 2021
  2. Jasprit Bumrah has been among the wickets in every match since the re-start in the UAE with 13 wickets in his last 6 matches. He has now claimed 19 wickets in the tournament and is the third leading wicket taker.
  3. Sanju Samson (3) missed an opportunity to get into the 500-run club in this IPL.
  4. Evin Lewis was dismissed in the sixth over for 24 with the team total at 41. RR managed to score just 49 runs in their next 14.3 overs with no batsman scoring more than Lewis.
  5. Ishan Kishan (50*) scored his first fifty in IPL 2021, in 9 innings. This is also his second fifty in Sharjah. 5 of his 8 scorer of over 50 have been scored in the UAE.
  6. Nathan Coulter-Nile (4-14) prior to this match had claimed just 1 wicket in 3 matches. His effort is his IPL career best. He also won his fifth Player of the match award, and his first since the 2017 edition.
  7. Ishan Kishan scored his 50 in just 25 deliveries and is now the 12th fastest and only the second Mumbai Indian batsman (after the topper, Pollard) in that list.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 50 Chennai Super Kings Vs Delhi Capitals October 4, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Delhi Capitals (DC) has won 4 of its 5 matches in a row, while Chennai Super Kings lost its second consecutive match and the top of the table position to DC as well.
  2. Ambati Rayudu (55) was the only batsman from either sides to score more than 40 runs.
  3. Shikhar Dhawan (39) became the third batsman to score 500 or more tuns in this IPL.
  4. Dwayne Bravo (1-20) has been among wickets in all the matches since the tournament restart in the UAE and has 9 wickets in his last 4 matches and 12 wickets overall in IPL 2021.
  5. Avesh khan (1-35) has taken wickets in all but one innings in this IPL. He is the second leading wicket taker with 22 wickets.
  6. For the second consecutive game, the top scorer for DC scored in the thirties (Dhawan in this match and Shreyas Iyer’s unbeaten 33 in the previous game).
  7. Shardul Thakur is continuing to have a good tournament since restart as he has been economical and among the wickets as well claiming 8 wickets at an economy of 6.58, while his economy prior to the restart was over 9 runs an over.
  8. Dwayne Bravo (165 wickets) moves to third in all time wicket takers list in IPL and needs just 2 more wickets to take the second position.
  9. Ruturaj Gaikwad (13) registered his lowest score since the tournament restart in the UAE.
  10. Ashwin has been four for four in claiming wickets in his last 4 matches after a wicketless span earlier in the tournament.
  11. This is only the second instance in which Shimron Hetmeyer (28*) batted at number 7 in his IPL career and registered a match winning knock.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 49 Sunrisers Hyderabad Vs Kolkata Knight Riders October 3, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Tim Southee (2-26), who had claimed just 2 wickets in his last 8 IPL matches prior to this claimed 2 wickets including the first wicket of the game that of Wriddhiman Saha for a golden duck.
  2. Shubman Gill (57) scored his first fifty in IPL 2021 in his 13th game.
  3. Dinesh Kartik got to face in the range of 10-14 deliveries only in his last 5 innings
  4. Bhuvneshwar Kumar with 141 wickets in IPL overall, went wicketless in the match and has claimed only 5 wickets in 10 matches in this edition
  5. Jason Holder has been among the wickets on 4 of the 6 matches he has played so far in IPL 2021 and has a total tally of 11 wickets.
  6. Sunrisers Hyderabad have now won only one of their last 5 matches
  7. 5 of the 12 batsmen dismissed in today’s match from both teams scored in single digits or a duck.
  8. Rashid Khan (1-23) has been among the wickets on all but one match in IPL 2021.
  9. Shakib Al Hasan played just his fourth match in IPL 2021, including one in this match, he has claimed 3 wickets as well

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 48 Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Punjab Kings October 3, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Glenn Maxwell and Mayank Agarwal as top scorers for their respective sides both scored exactly 57, like an instance in Match 46 between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals (Top scorer from both sides scored exactly 33).
  2. Ravi Bishnoi’s streak of claiming wickets in three consecutive matches ended as he went wicketless. In his 8-match short IPL career so far, his0-35 in 4 overs is his second most expensive spell.
  3. Moises Henriques played in just his fourth IPL match kin this 2021 edition. His 3-12 is his best in his 8 season IPL career.
  4. KL Rahul takes back the Orange cap in a seesaw battle with Ruturaj Gaekwad of Chennai Super Kings. He now has a slender 20 run lead.
  5. Glenn Maxwell with a series of good knocks (163 runs in his last 3 innings with three half centuries) has entered the 400-run club along with Mayan Agarwal for RCB.
  6. AB de Villiers (23) is having a quiet tournament and ever since his unbeaten 75 against Delhi Capitals in April, has scored just 53 runs in 6 innings.
  7. Nick Pooran (3) scored his fourth single digit score outside f his four ducks in this tournament.
  8. The result from this game breaks the 8-match streak of the team chasing ending up wining, but it came close as Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) won by just 6 runs.
  9. RCB has now won three in a row after two consecutive defeats prior to this streak and are comfortably placed in third position in the standings

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 47 Chennai Super Kings Vs Rajasthan Royals October 2, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Sam Curran finished with an expensive spell for the fourth time in IPL 2021 with way over 50 runs in his four overs.
  2. Ruturaj Gaekwad (101*) becomes just the fourth centurion in IPL 2021.
  3. He also becomes the first to score over 500 runs and take the Orange cap as well
  4. The match also witnessed Sanju Samson (28) take the third spot among the leading run getters in the tournament with 480 runs.
  5. MS Dhoni did not get a chance to bat today and that is already the 26th instance in IPL in which the top order was strong enough to not to let Dhoni get a chance to bat
  6. Rahul Tewatia’s 3-39 is his best in IPL 2021, but he has taken just 7 wickets in his 12 matches, and only 4 in 11 matches prior to this.
  7. Yashaswi Jaiiswal’s 50 of 19 deliveries is the third fastest in IPL 2021
  8. Shivam Dube’s unbeaten 64 is his first IPL 50 since his debut in the 2019 season. He has also for the first time put together a 4-match sequence of double digit scores in IPL and has now scored 184 runs in this timeframe.
  9. For the 8th match in a row the chasing team has won the match.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 46 Mumbai Indians Vs Delhi Capitals October 2, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. 9 of the 11 bowlers from both sides were among the wickets in the match.
  2. Shikhar Dhawan (8) though is still among the top 5 run getters is having a lean patch since the tournament restart in the UAE as he has scored just 82 runs in 4 innings since then.
  3. Ashwin is slowly back among the wickets after a wicketless patch (5 matches) and has been among the wickets in his last 3 matches.
  4. Delhi Capitals has now won four of their last 5 matches and has also extracted revenge for the loss to the Mumbai Indians in the IPL final last year in the UAE as well.
  5. Surya Kumar Yadav’s 33 is his best since his 56 in the second match for Mumbai Indians (MI) of IPL 2021. He has scored 33 twice since then. In this match he top scored for MI as well.
  6. Interestingly, Delhi Capitals top scorer was also an unbeaten 33 by Shreyas Iyer
  7. Mumbai has been involved in 10 matches in which they scored less than 160 runs and have now lost 7 of them
  8. Avesh khan (3-15) has taken wickets in all but one innings in this IPL. He is the second leading wicket taker and has taken three wickets four times.
  9. Jasprit Bumrah is continuing to have a good tournament since the re-start in the UAE with wickets in his last 5 matches. 11 of his 17 wickets in this IPL have been in the UAE.
  10. Teams chasing have now won for the 7th consecutive match in a row.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 45 Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Punjab Kings October 1, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Eoin Morgan (2) continues to have a bad run with the bat as he has scored just 101 runs in 9 innings including four single digit scores and two ducks.
  2. Venkatesh Iyer (67) in just 5 IPL matches has now claimed 3 wickets and has also scored 193 runs as an opening batsman including two 50s
  3. An interesting streak of a team batting second successfully chasing and winning the match continues for the sixth match in a row. The streak has 6 different winning teams as well.
  4. Punjab Kings (PBKS) has now won only two of their last 5 matches.
  5. The match witnessed a coincidence of batsmen from. Both sides scoring exactly 67 as the top run getters in the match (Venkatesh Iyer and KL Rahul)
  6. KL Rahul takes a lead for the Orange cup by considerable runs for the first time (489 runs over Shikhar Dhawan’s 454 runs)
  7. Tim Southee (0-40) has now claimed just 2 wickets in his last 8 IPL matches.
  8.  Shah Rukh Khan (22*) played his first match in the UAE since the tournament restart (PBKS’ fifth game here) and managed to steer the team to victory. He has now been unbeaten on 3 of his 8 IPL innings.
  9. Shubman Gill (7) had yet another low scoring game and has scored just 209 runs in 11 innings as an opening batsman.
  10. Arshdeep Singh (3-32) now moves to the fourth spot among leading wicket takers in. this tournament with 16 wickets.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 44 Sunrisers Hyderabad Vs Chennai Super Kings September 30, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Dwayne Bravo (2-17) has been among wickets in all the matches since the tournament restart in the UAE and has 8 wickets in his last 3 matches and 11 wickets overall in IPL 2021.
  2. This is the fifth consecutive match in which a team batting second has successfully chased and won the match. The streak has 5 different winning teams as well.
  3. For the second consecutive match Deepak Chahar was not among the wickets and has also given away exactly 8 runs an over.
  4. Shardul Thakur is continuing to have a good tournament since restart as he has been economical and among the wickets as well claiming 6 wickets at an economy of 7.25, while his economy prior to the restart was over 9 runs an over.
  5. Dwayne Bravo (164 wickets) moves to third in all time wicket takers list in IPL and needs just 7 more wickets to take the top position.
  6. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) has now won four of their last 5 matches
  7. Rashid Khan (1-27) has been among the wickets on all but one match in IPL 2021.
  8. Ruturaj Gaikwad (45) becomes the fifth batsman to enter the 400 runs club in this year’s IPL.
  9. Only 2 CSK batsmen (Faf du Plessis and Ruturaj Gaikwad) have batted in all their 11 matches they have played so far. Moeen Ali has batted in all 10 matches he has played so far. All other CSK batsmen did not have to bat in all the matches they have played.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 43 Rajasthan Royals Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore September 29, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Evin Lewis scored his third IPL fifty in 19 innings and his first this season.
  2. RCB has won the toss in 6 of the 11 games and have won three out of fur in which they decided to bowl first including this game.
  3. Rajasthan Royals (RR) scored their third fastest 100 (in 11.1 overs) in this IPL.
  4. Evin Lewis 50 of 31 balls is the fastest for RR in IPL 2021, though it’s 22nd in the all-time list for this season.
  5. Riyan Parag (9) was dismissed for a single digit score for the fourth consecutive match. He has accumulated just 93 runs in 10. Innings including six single digit scores and a golden duck.
  6. RR score was 100 at 11.1 overs when Lewis was dismissed. Subsequently they scored just 49 runs in 8.5 overs losing 8 wickets.
  7. Harshal Patel (3-34) is running away with Purple cap with 26 wickets now.
  8. Five of the seven Royal Challengers Bangalore bowlers were among the wickets.
  9. Sanju Samson now holds a wafer thin lead for the Orange cap by 2 runs from Shikar Dhawan.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 42 Punjab Kings Vs Mumbai Indians September 28, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. The loss is Punjab Kings (PBKS) third in its last 5 matches and their seventh in 11 matches.
  2. Hardik Pandya (40*) scored his best of the tournament. Prior to this game, he had scored just 54 runs in 7 innings.
  3. No batsman scored a fifty in this game from both sides. No other batsman except Mayank Agarwal has scored more than fifty in their last four matches
  4. Chris Gayle is uncharacteristically having a subpar tournament and has scored just 193 runs in 10 innings with no fifties.
  5. Trent Boult (0-30) has claimed just 1 wicket in his last 3 matches
  6. Keiron Pollard, who did not bowl in the last match, claimed 2 wickets in just the one over he bowled.
  7. Jasprit Bumrah is continuing to have a good tournament since the re-start in the UAE with wickets in his last 4 matches. He has now risen to third among the leading wicket takers in the tournament with 16 wickets.
  8. Rahul Chahar was back among the wickets after being wicketless for three consecutive games.
  9. Surya Kumar Yadav’s runs drought continues as he was dismissed for a golden duck and has now scored just 102 runs in his last 9 innings.

Vivo IPL 2021 Match 40 Rajasthan Royals Vs Sunrisers Hyderabad September 27, 2021 – Statistical Amazers


  1. Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) won their first game of their 6 last matches. This is also just their second win in 10 matches in this tournament. They won both their matches chasing in the 19th over.
  2. Like the previous match Mahipal Lomror and Sanju Samson were among the double digit run getters for Rajasthan Royals (RR), Yashaswi Jaiswal joined them this match as well. No other RR batsman scored in double digits
  3. Jason Roy not only made his 2021 IPL season debut in this match, but also played his first IPL match since 2018. His 60 is his second knock over 50 and he earned his second Player of the match award as well.
  4. The game witnessed a change at the top of the leading run getters list, with Sanju Samson (82) taking over from Shikhar Dhawan with 433 runs.
  5. Kane Williamson (51*) scored his second unbeaten half century in this tournament and 17th overall in 59 innings.
  6. The match witnessed two batsmen from either sides dismissed for golden ducks (Riyan Parag and Priyam Garg)
  7. RR wins have dried up of late and are sliding down the table with 3 losses in their last 5 matches. They are now tied with four teams with 4 wins and 8 points now.
  8. Sanju Samson becomes the third batsman to join the 400-run club among leading run getters in this IPL.
  9. Except Sanju Samson, no other batsman from both the teams have scored 200 or more runs in this tournament so far.