Super Eights League : Match Number 17 : Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Daredevils at Bangalore on 17.10.09. Royal Challengers Bangalore won by eight wickets.

Royal Challengers Bangalore inserted the opposition in this game and won the match providing the second occasion of a team winning the game after it had inserted the opposition in the tournament. The other occasion was Somerset winning the game against Deccan Chargers at Hyderabad on 10.10.09

A Kumble celebrated his birthday by capturing three wickets conceding 20 runs in this game and earned the distinction of becoming the first and only captain to capture three wickets in the tournament.

A Kumble’s 3 for 20 in this game provide the 18^th occasion of a bowler capturing three or more wickets in the tournament. A Kumble became the third RCB bowler to capture three wickets in the tournament. Others are Praveen Kumar and JH Kallis

No	Bowlers	W	R	Opposition	Ground	Date
1	P Kumar	3	32	Cobras	B’lore	08.10.09
2	JH Kallis	3	18	Otago	B’lore	12.10.09
3	*A Kumble	3	20	Delhi	B’lore	17.10.09

MK Pandey became the first batsman in the tournament to retire hurt with a score of three runs when he pulled a muscle while running.

LRPL Taylor hit four sixes in this game to take his T20 sixes aggregate to 83. His aggregate of sixes stands second in the list of most sixes by a batsman in the history of T20 games. DJ Hussey with 96 sixes to his credit is the only batsman who has hit more sixes than LRPL Taylor. DJ Hussey and LRPL Taylor are the only two batsmen in the history of T20 game to aggregate 80 plus sixes.

T Dilshan was caught and bowled by A Kumble in this game providing the eighth occasion of a batsman dismissed caught and bowled in the tournament.

No	Batsman	Runs	Team 1	Vs	Team 2	Venue	Date
1	Sehwag	21	Delhi	Vs	Victoria	Delhi	09.10.09
2	Waller	00	Somerset	Vs	Deccan	Hyd’bad	10.10.09
3	DMBravo	09	Tri-Tob	Vs	Somerset	B’lore	12.10.09
4	H-Brown	06	Sussex	Vs	Eagles	Delhi	13.10.09
5	DMBravo	14	Tri-Tob	Vs	Deccan	Hyd’bad	14.10.09
6	Pandey	39	RCB	Vs	Victoria	B’lore	15.10.09
7	Trego	06	Somerset	Vs	Eagles	Hyd’bad	16.10.09
8	Dilshan	20	Delhi	Vs	RCB	B’lore	17.10.09

Bhuvaneshwar Singh made his T20 debut in this game to become the first cricketer to make his T20 debut in CLT20 games. On his debut he went wicketless conceding 31 runs in four overs and took a catch to dismiss OA Shah of A Kumble for 17.

MK Tiwary was dismissed by the last ball of Delhi innings in this game. He was caught by MK Pandey of Praveen Kumar for 11. His dismissal by the last ball of the innings provide the fourth occasion of a batsman dismissed by the last ball of the innings in the tournament

No	Batsmen	Team 1	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	Sangwan	Delhi	Victoria	Delhi	09.10.09
2	Willoughby	Somerset	Tri-Tob	B’lore	12.10.09
3	Rohrer	NSW	Tri-Tob	Hyd’bad	16.10.09
4	Tiwary	Delhi	RCB	B’lore	17.10.09

R Dravid and LRPL Taylor stitched a 93 runs partnership of the second wicket providing the 22^nd occasion of a fifty plus runs partnership in the tournament.

R Dravid and LRPL Taylor stitched a 93 runs partnership of the second wicket providing the fifth occasion of a fifty plus runs partnership for the second wicket in the tournament. This stand represents the highest partnership for the second wicket in the tournament. The previous best stand was 81 runs partnership HGJM Kulatunga and MG Vandort of Wayamba Eleven against Victoria at Delhi on 13.10.09

R Dravid and LRPL Taylor stitched a 93 runs partnership of the second wicket providing the fourth occasion of a ninety plus runs partnership in the tournament.

No	Wkt	Runs	Partner1	Partner2
			Team	Opposition	Ground	Date
1	1st	121	Warner	Hughes
			NSW	Tri-Tob	Hyd’bad	16.10.09
2	3rd	95	Puttick	Duminy
			Cobras	Otago	Hyd’bad	10.10.09
3	2nd	93	Dravid	Taylor
			RCB	Delhi	B’lore	17.10.09
4	3rd	90*	Hughes	Henriques
			NSW	Sussex	Delhi	11.10.09

R Dravid and LRPL Taylor stitched a 93 runs partnership of the second wicket providing the sixth occasion of a fifty plus runs partnership by RCB batsmen in the tournament. This stand represents the highest partnership by RCB batsmen in the tournament. The previous best stand was 75 runs partnership between JH Kallis and RV Uthappa against Otago on 12.10.09

No	Wkt	Runs	Partners	Opp	Ground	Date
1	2nd	93	Dravid-Taylor	Delhi	B’lore	17.10.09
2	1st	75	Kallis-Uthappa	Otago	B’lore	12.10.09
3	2nd	68	Uthappa-Dravid	Cobras	B’lore	08.10.09
4	5th	65*	Taylor-Pandey	Cobras	B’lore	08.10.09
5	2nd	59	Kallis-Kohli	Otago	B’lore	12.10.09
6	3rd	54*	Kallis-Taylor	Otago	B’lore	12.10.09

DP Nannes with his two wickets in this game now has an aggregate of 60 T20 wickets. He became the 18^th bowler in the history of T20 games to capture 60 plus wickets. The 18 bowlers list is furnished below

No	Bowlers	Mat	Wkts	Runs	BBI	Ave
1	T Henderson	75	84	1937	4-29	23.05
2	Yasir Arafat	59	78	1541	4-17	19.75
3	Umar Gul	44	76	1036	5-06	13.63
4	AD Mascarenhas	63	76	1501	5-14	19.75
5	JA Morkel	88	76	1969	4-30	25.90
6	AJ Hall	52	71	1353	6-21	19.05
7	GR Napier	55	70	1386	4-10	19.80
8	CM Willoughby	64	69	1661	4-09	24.07
9	Azhar Mahmood	60	68	1497	4-20	22.01
10	AC Thomas	59	63	1355	4-27	21.50
11	IK Pathan	55	63	1392	4-27	22.09
12	Shahid Afridi	50	62	1090	4-11	17.58
13	J Louw	49	62	1286	4-18	20.74
14	TJ Murtagh	51	62	1464	6-24	23.61
15	ND Doshi	44	61	0975	4-22	15.98
16	NM Carter	62	61	1486	5-19	24.36
17	DP Nannes	41	60	1048	4-11	17.46
18	SJ Cook	51	60	1348	3-14	22.46

LRPL Taylor at the end of this game has an aggregate of 152 runs – most by a batsman in the tournament. He became the first batsman to aggregate 150 runs in the tournament.

V Sehwag made his 50^th T20 appearance in this game. He made 47 with the willow. Other Delhi Daredevils’s cricketers who are in the playing eleven of today’s game with 50 plus T20 appearances are OA Shah {58}, G Gambhir {54} and TM Dilshan {54}.

Amit Mishra conceded 59 runs in this game which represents the most expensive bowling figres in terms of runs conceded in the tournament. The previous expensive bowling figures were credited to MC Henriques of New South Wales who had returned with bowling figures of 3.3-0-49-1 against Trinidad & Tobago at Hyderabad on 17.10.09. A Mishra’s none for 59 in this game provides the ninth occasion of a bowler conceding forty plus runs in the tournament

No	Bowler	W	R	Team	Opposition	Ground	Date
1	A Mishra	0	59	Delhi	RCB	B’lore	17.10.09
2	Henriques	1	49	NSW	Tri-Tob	Hyd’bad	16.10.09
3	IG Butler	1	48	Otago	Cobras	Hyd’bad	10.10.09
4	Klienveldt	0	45	Cobras	RCB	B’lore	08.10.09
5	Wiilouhby	0	44	Somerset	Deccan	Hyd’bad	10.10.09
6	BJ Phillips	1	43	Somerset	Tri-Tob	B’lore	12.10.09
7	N Wagner	1	42	Otago	Cobras	Hyd’bad	10.10.09
8	IJ Butler	0	42	Otago	RCB	B’lore	12.10.09
9	Vinaykumar	1	40	RCB	Cobras	B’lore	08.10.09

A Mishra became the first bowler to concede fifty plus runs in the tournament. He is also the first bowler to concede fifty plus runs with out a wicket in the tournament. He is the fourth bowler to concede forty plus runs with out a wicket in the tournament