IPL – 2017 – M-01 – Highlights

SR Watson became the 14^h captain to lead two teams in IPL. The following table lists all the captains who have accomplished such feat. The list does not include the captains who have led three teams in IPL

No	Player	Teams
1	MS Dhoni	Chennai, Rising Pune
2	G Gambhir	Delhi, Kolkata
3	AC Gilchrist	Deccan, Punjab
4	V Sehwag	Delhi, Punjab
5	R Dravid	Rajasthan, Bangalore
6	Yuvraj Singh	Punjab, Pune
7	SC Ganguly	Kolkata, Pune
8	DA Warner	Delhi, Sunrisers
9	SR Watson	Rajasthan, Bangalore
10	SK Raina	Chennai, Gujarat
11	KP Pietersen	Delhi, Bangalore
12	BB McCullum	Gujarat, Kolkata
13	CL White	Deccan, Sunrisers
14	SPD Smith	Pune, Rajasthan

SR Watson became the seventh overseas cricketer to lead exact two teams in IPL. He also becomes the fifth Australian cricketer to accomplish the feat. Others are – AC Gilchrist, DA Warner, CL White and  SPD Smith

No	Player	Teams
1	AC Gilchrist	Deccan, Punjab
2	DA Warner	Delhi, Sunrisers
3	SR Watson	Rajasthan, Bangalore
4	KP Pietersen	Delhi, Bangalore
5	BB McCullum	Gujarat, Kolkata
6	CL White	Deccan, Sunrisers
7	SPD Smith	Pune, Rajasthan

SR Watson is became the sixth captain to lead Royal Challengers, Bangalore in IPL games. The following table lists all the six captains

No	Player	Teams
1	V Kohli	Bangalore
2	R Dravid	Bangalore
3	A Kumble	Bangalore
4	DL Vettori	Bangalore
5	SR Watson	Bangalore
6	KP Pietersen	Bangalore

SR Watson became the second  captain to lead Rajasthan  and Bangalore teams in IPL after R Dravid. R Dravid first led Bangalore and then  Rajasthan. SR Watson has led Rajasthan first and now set to lead Bangalore

No	Player	Teams
1	R Dravid	Rajasthan, Bangalore
2	SR Watson	Rajasthan, Bangalore

SR Watson became the third captain to lead Bangalore and another team in IPL after R Dravid and KP Pietersen. R Dravid has led Rajasthan and Bangalore while KP Pietersen has led Delhi and Bangalore

No	Player	Teams
1	R Dravid	Rajasthan, Bangalore
2	SR Watson	Rajasthan, Bangalore
3	KP Pietersen	Delhi, Bangalore

DA Warner took his 100^th catch in T20 games when he caught CH Gayle in this game. He became the 15^th fieldsman to accomplish the feat. At the end of this game his tally of catches in T20 games read 101.The following table lists all the fieldsmen

No	Player	Span	Mat	Inns	Ct	Max
1	KA Pollard	2006-2017	359	354	198	4
2	DJ Bravo	2006-2016	344	342	175	4
3	DA Miller	2008-2017	219	216	145	3
4	DJ Hussey	2004-2017	267	266	129	3
5	SK Raina	2006-2017	245	244	128	3
6	DR Smith	2006-2017	284	283	122	4
7	AB de Villiers	2004-2017	218	147	115	3
8	RN ten Doeschate	2003-2016	285	280	111	3
9	Umar Akmal	2008-2017	223	177	110	3
10	LRPL Taylor	2006-2016	224	221	108	4
11	Shoaib Malik	2005-2017	271	271	106	3
12	MJ Guptill	2006-2016	170	167	105	3
13	AD Russell	2010-2017	232	231	102	3
14	BJ Hodge	2003-2017	270	269	102	3
15	DA Warner	2007-2017	223	221	101	4

A Nehra’s wicket tally in IPL read 100. He captured his 100^th wicket in this game, when he bowled Aravind for a duck and returned with figures of 2 for 42 in this game. He became the eighth bowler in the history of IPL to capture 100 plus wickets. Others are – SL Malinga {143}, A Mishra {124}, DJ Bravo {122}, PP Chawla {120}, Harbhajan Singh {119}, R Vinay Kumar {101} and R Ashwin {100}

This game witnessed two cricketers from the same country leading rival teams. DA Warner was leading Sunrisers, Hyderabad and SR Watson was leading Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

CH Gayle is in threshold of becoming the first batsman to score ten thousand runs in the history of Twenty20 games. At the end of the first game of IPL 2017 his run aggregate stands at 9969. He needs 31 more runs to achieve the coveted feat.

DA Warner has scored 59 fifties in T20 games. He needs one more score of fifty plus runs to get to his 60th fifty. If he gets one more fifty, he would then become the second batsman in the annals of Twenty20 games to score 60 fifties after CH Gayle. CH Gayle has scored 78 fifties

DA Warner has scored 694 boundary fours. Six more boundary fours  would fetch  him 700 boundary fours. If he gets then, then he would become the fourth batsman in the history of Twenty20 games to score 700 plus boundary fours. Others are – CH Gayle {759}, BB McCullum {709} and BJ Hodge {707}

DA Warner has scored 289 boundary sixes. Eleven more boundary fours would fetch him 300 boundary sixes. If he gets then, then he would become the fifth batsman in the history of Twenty20 games to score 300 plus boundary sixes. Others are – CH Gayle {732}, KA Pollard {452}, BB McCullum {342} and DR Smith {321}

CH Gayle has an aggregate of 2995 runs while playing for Royal Challengers, Bangalore. He needs 05 more runs for his 3000 runs. If he gets them, he would then become the third batsman in the history of IPL to score 3000 plus runs playing for a single team in IPL. Others are – V Kohli – 4110 runs for Bengaluru and SK Raina – 3699 runs for Chennai.

DA Warner has scored 1952 runs for Sunrisers. He needs 48 more runs for his 2000 runs. KA Pollard has scored 1985 runs for Mumbai Indians. He needs 15 more runs for his 2000 runs. If they get these runs, then they would become the 14^th and 15^th batsman in the history of IPL to score 2000 plus runs for a single team

DA Warner has scored 1952 runs for Sunrisers. He needs 48 more runs for his 2000 runs. If he gets them, then he would become the third batsman in the history of IPL to score 2000 plus runs for a one team and 1000 plus runs for another team. Others are – RG Sharma and G Gambhir. DA Warner would also become the first overseas batsman to score 2000 plus runs for a one team and 1000 plus runs for another team.

No	Player	Team	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0	4s	6s
1	RG Sharma	Mumbai	97	94	17	2704	109*	35.11	1	21	6	227	112
2	RG Sharma	Deccan	45	44	6	1170	76*	30.78	0	8	2	96	51
1	G Gambhir	Kolkata	92	92	8	2537	93	30.20	0	23	10	290	39
2	G Gambhir	Delhi	40	39	4	1097	86	31.34	0	8	2	132	12
1	DA Warner	Sunrisers	46	46	7	1952	93*	51.00	0	22	2	194	77
2	DA Warner	Delhi	55	55	5	1435	109*	28.70	2	10	5	146	58

DA Warner {6935} and KA Pollard {6950} require 65 and 50 runs for their 7000 runs in T20 games. If they get them, then they would become the fourth and fifth batsmen in the history of T20 games to total 7000 plus runs. Others are – CH Gayle {9937}, BB McCullum {7371} and BJ Hodge {7338}

KA Pollard’s highest individual score is 89 not out in T20 games. If he completes 7000 runs, he would become the first batsman in the history of T20 games to aggregate 7000 plus without a century.

IPL – 2017 – M-02 – Highlights  

SPD Smith became the third cricketer to lead three teams in IPL. Others are KC Sangakkara {Deccan, Punjab and Sunrisers} and DPMD Jayawardene {Delhi, Punjab and Kochi}. Interestingly enough, all these three cricketers are overseas cricketers

No	Player	Teams
1	KC Sangakkara	Deccan, Punjab, Sunrisers
2	DPMD Jayawardene	Delhi, Punjab, Kochi
3	SPD Smith	Pune, Rajasthan,Ris Pune

SPD Smith scored 84 not out in this game to provide the second occasion of a Rising Pune Supergiants skipper scoring a fifty in IPL after MS Dhoni.  MS Dhoni had scored 64 not out against Punjab at Vizag on 21.05.16. Thus SPD Smith’s 84 not out represent the highest score by a Rising Pune Superggiant captain.

This game was the first game in IPL for MS Dhoni as a cricketer. Prior to this he has skippered either Chennai Super Kings or Rising Pune Supergiants.

MS Dhoni’s aggregate of dismissals in IPL read 90 at the end of this game. He became the second wicket keeper to effect 90 plus dismissals in IPL. KD Karthik had effected 98 dismissals. MS Dhoni took one catch in this game.

MS Dhoni’s lone catch in this game gave him 180 dismissals in T20 games. He became the third wicket keeper in the history of T20 games to effect 180 plus dismissals. Others are – Kamran Akmal {200} and KC Sangakkara {180}. Thus MS Dhoni and KC Sangakkara share the second place jointly amongst the wicket keepers who have effected most dismissals in T20 games

MS Dhoni has pouched 119 catches so far in T20 games. He needs five more catches to overhaul the existing record of 123 catches pouched by KC Sangakkara

AM Rahane’s 60 in this game represent his seventh fifty for Rising Pune Supergiants. He also totalled 500 plus runs during the course of his 60 in this game. His run aggregate read 540 at the end of this game. He became the first Rising Pune Supergiansts batsman to score 500 plus runs in IPL

SPD Smiths’ 84 in this game represent the second highest individual score by a Rising Pune Supergiants batsman in IPL. The highest score is also by SPD Smith who had scored 101 against Gujarat Lions at Pune-SRS on 29.04.16

AM Rahane’s 60 in this game  represent his 25^th fifty in IPL. He became the ninth batsman to socre 25 plus fifties  in IPL. The following table lists all the nine batsmen who have scored 25 plus fifties in IPL

No	Player	C	HC	50+
1	DA Warner	2	32	34
2	G Gambhir	0	31	31
3	V Kohli	4	26	30
4	RG Sharma	1	29	30
5	SK Raina	1	28	29
6	CH Gayle	5	20	25
7	S Dhawan	0	25	25
8	AM Rahane	1	24	25