Match Number 3 : Delhi Daredevils vs Kings Eleven Punjab at Mohali on 13.03.10 : Delhi Daredevils won by five wickets

RS Bopara who opened the innings for Kings Eleven Punjab scored 56 in this game which was his seventh T20 half century.

KRD Karthik was playing his 50^th T20 game and has an aggregate of 46 dismissals behind the stumps in this game. He held a catch and effected two stumpings in this game. At the end of this game, he had held 30 catches and effected 16 stumpings. Coupled with four catches held by him when not keeping the wickets, he has an aggregate of 50 dismissals {34 ct plus 16 st}

DPMD Jayawardene was dismissed for zero in this game which was his third zero in T20 games. The other two occasions are – against England at Southampton on 15.06.06 and against Zimbabwe at King City on 10.10.08. His zero in this game was his first zero in IPL games. DPMD Jayawardence collected his first ball duck in this game.

KC Sangakkara led Kings Eleven Punjab in this game to become the second wicket keeper captain to lead an IPL team. AC Gilchrist of Deccan Chargers was the other wicket keeper captain to lead an IPL team

DPMD Jayawardene with two catches in this game took his aggregate of catches to 31. He became the eleventh fieldsman to pouch 30 plus catches in T20 games. Others are – M van Jaarsveld {48}, DJ Hussey {47}, AD Brown {36}, LRPL Taylor {36}, HH Gibbs {36}, AB de Villers {34}, Shoaib Malik {31}, BJ Hodge {31}, WR Smith {30} and R McLaren {30}

G Gambhir scored 72 in this game which is his 14^th T20 fifty. He became the fifth batsman in the history of T20 games to score 14 or more fifties. Others are – BJ Hodge {19}, HD Ackerman {17}, BB McCullum {15} and JP Duminy {14}

G Gambhir scored 72 in this game which is his 14^th T20 half century. He became the fourth batsman in the history of T20 games to score 14 or more half centuries. Others are – BJ Hodge {18}, HD Ackerman {17} and JP Duminy {14}

G Gambhir completed 1500 runs when he was on 2 during his knock of 72 in this game. At the end of this game, his runs aggregate stood at 1570. He is the first Indian batsman to aggregate 1500 runs in T20 games.

G Gambhir became the 17^th batsman in the history of T20 games to aggregate 1500 plus runs. The complete list is furnished below

No	Batsmen	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0
1	BJ Hodge	81	78	11	2560	106	38.20	1	18	5
2	DJ Hussey	95	90	15	2355	100*	31.40	1	12	9
3	BB McCullum	79	78	10	2268	158*	33.35	3	12	1
4	LRPL Taylor	67	65	10	1885	111*	34.27	1	12	3
5	GC Smith	63	63	6	1882	105	33.01	1	10	4
6	HD Ackerman	55	55	7	1811	87	37.72	0	17	2
7	IJL Trott	64	59	14	1775	86*	39.44	0	11	1
8	ST Jayasuriya	72	72	4	1760	114*	25.88	1	9	7
9	JP Duminy	67	64	15	1720	99*	35.10	0	14	6
10	OA Shah	69	66	12	1682	79	31.14	0	10	3
11	SB Styris	82	79	7	1651	73*	22.93	0	8	2
12	HH Gibbs	73	71	6	1648	98	25.35	0	13	14
13	KC Sangakkara	59	56	5	1637	94	32.09	0	13	4
14	Shoaib Malik	63	59	18	1605	88*	39.14	0	10	0
15	M van Jaarsveld	80	71	10	1573	76*	25.78	0	11	3
16	G Gambhir	58	57	4	1570	86	29.62	0	14	4
17	CL White	62	60	14	1564	141*	34.00	2	9	4

G Gambhir’s 72 in this game represent his seventh IPL fifty. He is now on par with ML Hayden who has seven IPL fifties. Only AC Gilchrist has scored more IPL fifties than G Gambhir and ML Hayden. AC Gilchrist has eight IPL fifties to his credit.

G Gambhir’s 72 in this game represent his seventh IPL half century. He is now on par with AC Gilchirst and ML Hayden who have scored seven IPL half centuries.

YA Abdulla captured his 50^th wicket in T20 games when he had KRD Karthik caught by IK Pathan for 20 in this game. He became the 40^th bowler in T20 games to capture 50 plus wickets

Delhi won this game by five wickets with a ball to spare providing the fifth occasion of a team winning a game with a ball to spare in IPL. The other four occasions are – Jaipur winning the game by three wickets against Hydeabad at Hyderabad on 24.04.08, Delhi winning the game by five wickets against Mumbai at Delhi on 24.05.08, Bangalore winning the game by five wickets at Durban on 29.04.09 and Mohali winning the game by three wickets against Hyderabad at Kimberly on 09.05.09

Delhi won this game by five wickets with a ball to spare providing the second occasion of Delhi winning a game an IPL game with a ball to spare. The other occasion was its win by five wickets against Mumbai at Delhi on 24.05.08