Stats made in match 45
Eion Morgan –led Punjab Kings registered victory over KL Rahul-led Kolkata Knight Riders by five wickets in 45th match of Indian Premier League held at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai on Friday, October 01, 2021.Here is an interesting article about stats made in match 45.
Punjab Kings won the toss and took decision of fielding first.
Kolkata Knight Riders Inning
Opener Shubman Gill made the start quite disappointing as he was dismissed after making only 7 runs. But another opener, Venkatesh Iyer has shown his amazing batting skills. He played fine knocks and smashed 67 runs in 49 deliveries with the help of 9 fours and 1 six.
Rahul Tripathi and Nitish Rana also played well and contributed 34 and 31 respectively.
Hopes were quite high and it was looking that Kolkata Knight Riders is going to give a tough fight but some players including Eion Morgan failed to show their performance and dismissed after making few runs.
Coming to bowling side, Mohammed Shami and Arshdeep bowled brilliantly to hinder Kolkata Knight Riders from scoring.
With this Kolkata Knight Riders made the score of 165 runs for the fall of 7 wickets.
Punjab Kings Innings
The start was great for Punjab Kings as Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul played excellently.
Opening partnership of Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul contributed 70 runs.
But after that there was the reason to worry as the players in the middle over failed to meet the need of conditions.
Shahrukh Khan lifted up the graph of performance and smashed 22 runs.
Punjab Kings smashed 168 runs for the fall of 5 wickets in 19.3 overs.
KL Rahul’s stats made in match 45
KL Rahul has completed his 450 runs in this season of IPL and achieved the third position in the list in this regard. First two players in the list are Sanju Samson and Shikhar Dhawan .
KL Rahul has made the score of 489 runs till now in IPL 2021 and thus achieved the honour of becoming new holder of the orange cap. He surpassed Shikhar Dhawan , who has scored 454 runs in IPL 2021.
KL Rahul has achieved the position of first player to complete 100 sixes for Punjab Kings in IPL.
Rahul also achieved the position of second player to complete 2,400 IPL runs for Punjab Kings. First such player is Shaun Marsh.
Rahul hit his fifth fifty in this season of IPL and this is highest number of fifties by any player. Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell hit 4 fifties in this season of IPL.
Mayank Agarwal ’s stats made in match 45
Mayank Agarwal achieved the position of 7th batsman to completed 50 sixes for Punjab Kings in IPL.
Mohammed Shami ’s stats made in match 45
In this reason of IPL, Mohammed Shami has registered 125 dot deliveries under his name. It is highest number for any player and he has attained first position in the list in this regard surpassing, Trent Boult , who made 123 dot deliveries.
Venkatesh Iyer’s stats made in match 45
In this match, Venkatesh Iyer hit his fifth IPL fifty and made his highest score of 67 runs in IPL 2021.
Eoin Morgan’s stats made in match 45
Eoin Morgan has played with the average of 10.9 in IPL 2021 and it is lowest average for any captain in a season.
