In Stats: Warner and Bhuvneshwar Reach New Heights as SRH Beat KKR

Take a look at the IPL Eliminator match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Kinight Riders through numbers.

Kolkata Knight Riders: 140/8 (Manish Pandey 36; Bhveshwar Kumar 3/19) lost to SRH: 162/8 in 20 overs (Yuvraj Singh 44, Kuldeep Yadav 3/35) by 22 runs.

21

The number of wickets taken by Bhuvneshwar Kumar in this IPL in 15 matches, the most by any bowler. Yuzvendra Chahal and Shane Watson are at second place in this season’s top wicket takers list with 20 wickets.

686

The number of runs scored by David Warner in IPL-9, the second most after Virat Kohli in IPL-9 and the third most by a player in a single season of IPL.

4th

Gautam Gambhir became the fourth player after Virat Kohli (3116), Suresh Raina (2953) and Rohit Sharma (2941) to at least face 2900 balls in IPL.

10th

Yuvraj Singh became the tenth Indian player to score 4000 runs in T20s. The other nine players who have achieved the same milestone are Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, MS Dhoni, Shikhar Dhawan, Yusuf Pathan and Virender Sehwag.

1st

David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan’s pair is the first opening pair to score 1500 runs in IPL history. Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa’s pair is at second place in the list with 1478 runs.

147

The number of dot balls bowled by Bhuvneshwar Kumar in IPL 2016, the most by any bowler. Mitchell McClenaghan is at second place in the list with 138 dot balls.

4th

Gautam Gambhir became the fourth player in IPL history to score 500 plus runs in three different seasons of IPL after Chris Gayle, David Warner and Suresh Raina. In IPL, Gautam Gambhir has now scored over 500 runs in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Virat Kohli holds the record of scoring over 500 runs in four different IPL seasons.

1st

During the Hyderabad-Kolkata match, Gambhir and Warner got out on the same score from the same number of balls. This was the first instance when both the captains in a match got out by scoring identical runs from identical balls in an IPL game.

3rd

Bhvneshwar Kumar became the third Indian bowler after Yuzvendra Chahal and Mohit Sharma to take at least 20 wickets in two different seasons of IPL. He has taken 21 wickets in this IPL and had taken 20 wickets in IPL 2014.

1st

Sunrisers Hyderabad notched their first win over Kolkata Knight Riders in this year’s IPL on Wednesday, prior to the eliminator, they lost both the league matches against Kolkata Knight Riders.