Match Number 1 : Deccan Chargers vs Kolkata Knight Riders : At DY Patil Academy, Mumbai on 12.03.10 : Kolkata Knight Riders won by 11 runs

Deccan Chargers won the toss and inserted the opposition in the first game of the third edition of IPL.

Chaminda Vaas captured a wicket of the first ball of the match in this game when he had MK Tiwari caught by RJ Sharma for zero providing the first occasion of a batsman dismissed by the first ball of the match in the third edition of IPL

Chaminda Vaas became the first bowler in the third edition of IPL to bowl a maiden over capturing two wickets. He bagged the wickets of MK Tiwari and SC Ganguly in his first over which was also the first over of the match without conceding a run.

OA Shah and AD Matthews added 130 runs in an unfinished stand for the fifth wicket in Kolkata’s innings providing the first three figure partnership of the third edition of IPL. It also represents the 27^th three figure partnership in IPL.

OA Shah and AD Matthews added 130 runs in an unfinished stand for the fifth wicket in Kolkata’s innings providing the first three figure partnership for the fifth wicket in all the three editions of IPL, thus representing the record stand for the fifth wicket. The previous best was 95 runs stand between S Badrinath and MS Dhoni {Chennai vs Mumbai at Mumbai on 14.05.08} and 95 runs stand between A Symonds and Y Venugopala Rao {Hyderabad vs Mohali at Kimberly on 09.05.09}

OA Shah and AD Matthews added 130 runs in an unfinished stand for the fifth wicket in Kolkata’s innings providing the ninth occasion of an unfinished three figure partnership in all the three editions of IPL.

OA Shah and AD Matthews added 130 runs in an unfinished stand for the fifth wicket in Kolkata’s innings providing the third occasion of Kolkata batsmen posting three figure partnerships in all the three editions of IPL. The other two occasions are – 104 runs for the 6^th wicket between DJ Hussey and WP Saha vs Punjab at Mohali on 03.05.08 and 102 runs stand between SC Ganguly and DJ Hussey vs Hyderabad on 11.05.08

OA Shah and AD Matthews added 130 runs in an unfinished stand for the fifth wicket in Kolkata’s innings providing the record three figure partnerships by Kolkata batsmen in all the three editions of IPL. The previous best was the 104 runs for the 6^th wicket between DJ Hussey and WP Saha vs Mohali at Mohali on 03.05.08

AD Mathews earned the distinction of scoring the first fifty of the third edition of IPL when he scored 65 not out in this game. OA Shah’s 58 not out in this game represent the second fifty of third edition of IPL

AC Gilchrist scored 54 in this game providing his eighth fifty which includes one hundred. AC Gilchrist with eight fifties to his credit now owns the record of most fifties by a batsman in IPL. He wrested the record from ML Hayden who has seven fifties to their credit.

AC Gilchrist hit three sixes in this game and his second six of the bowling of LR Shukla {Over number 4.6} gave him the distinction of becoming the first batsman in IPL to hit fifty boundary sixes. At the end of this game he has an aggregate of 51 boundary sixes.

This game witnessed rival skippers scoring zero and fifty – SC Ganguly {zero} and AC Gilchrist {54}.

At the end of this game, BJ Hodge’s run aggregate stood at 2560 in T20 games. He holds the record for most runs in T20 games.

ChamindaVaas’s two wickets in this game gave him 25 T20 wickets. He was playing his 23^rd match.

MK Tiwary of Kolkata and C Vaas of Hyderabad collected their first ball ducks in this game.

This game also witnessed a batsman’s fifty in a losing cause. AC Gilchrist’s 54 was in vain. He was captaining his side Hyderabad in this game