Stats made in match 43
Wow! one more amazing win by Royal Challengers Bangalore. Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore score a big triumph against Sanju Samson-led Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets in 43rd match of Indian Premier League held at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai on Wednesday, September 29, 2021. Some important stats made in match 43 are discussed in this article.
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and took decision of bowling first.
Rajasthan Royals Innings
Rajasthan Royals had a great start with wonderful performance of Lewis .He slammed 58 runs in 37 deliveries, also hit 5 amazing boundaries and 3 excellent sixes. Yashasvi Jaiswal also made effort and contributed 31 runs. Opening partnership added 77 runs in 8.2 overs. The start was good but the soon the conditions deteriorated as no other players was able to perform nicely.
Bowlers of Royal Challengers Bangalore keep on attacking on the opponent team by their high-powered bowling.
Harshal Patel picked up 3 wickets and gave away 34 runs.
As a result, the team got restricted to 149 runs for the loss of 9 wickets.
Royal Challengers Bangalore Innings
The chase started with the opener and Captain Virat Kohli. Royal Challengers Bangalore played very smoothly. Partnership of openers Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal contributed 48 runs.
Srikar Bharat joined forces and played well. Glenn Maxwell’s performance was really praiseworthy as he smashed amazing fifty and remained on crease till end.
Players of Rajasthan Royals did perform well, neither with bat nor with bowl, excluding few ones.
Mustafizur Rahman picked up 2 wickets. No other bowler managed to take even a single wicket.
The team made the total score of 153 runs for the fall of 3 wickets in 17.1 overs.
After achieving victory in this match, RCB has achieved third position.
Harshal Patel’s stats made in match 43
Harshal Patel has completed his 26 wickets in IPL 2021 and it is highest number of wickets by an uncapped bowler. He surpassed Yuzvendra Chahal , who picked up 23 wickets in IPL 2013.
Up till now, Patel has grabbed 26 wickets and this number is joint-second highest by an Indian bowler in a season of IPL. Bhuvneshwar Kumar shares this record with him as he has also grabbed 26 wickets in IPL 2017. Jasprit Bumrah holds first position in this regard as he picked up 27 wickets in IPL 2020.
Patel also reached the feat of becoming second bowler who bagged 10 wickets in the 20th over of an IPL season. Dwayne Bravo picked up 12 wickets in the 20th over in IPL 2015.
Patel has played with excellent strike rate of 9.31and this strike rate is highest among all bowlers who picked up 10 or 10+ wickets in an IPL season.
Glenn Maxwell’s stats made in match 43
Glenn Maxwell reached the milestone of becoming fifth Australian cricketer who has completed 7000 T20 runs.
Evin Lewis and Yashasvi Jaiswal’s partnership stats made in match 43
Partnership of Evin Lewis and Yashasvi Jaiswal contributed 77 runs and it is the highest contribution by opening partners for Rajasthan Royals since 2019. Before this, partnership of Ajinkya Rahane and Liam Livingstone contributed 78 runs for Rajasthan Royals while playing against SRH in 2019.
Sanju Samson’s stats made in match 43
Sanju Samson achieved the record of becoming second player who has completed 450 runs in IPL 2021.First player with such a great record is Shikhar Dhawan.
Up till now Samson has made the score of 452 runs and it is highest number for him is in an IPL season. Previously h, his highest score was of 441 runs made in IPL 2018.
Virat Kohli’s stats made in match 43
It happened for the first time since 2015 that Virat Kohli got run- out.
