Super Eights : Match No 14 : Eagles vs Somerset at Hyderabad on 16.10.09 : Eagles won by five wickets

CJD Villiers with his 4 for 17 in this game became the fourth bowler in the tournament to capture four wickets. The four bowlers are listed below.

No	Bowlers	W	R	Team	Opposition	Ground	Date
1	Nannes	4	24	Delhi	Wayamba	Delhi	11.10.09
2	Bravo	4	23	Tri-Tob	Somerset	B’lore	12.10.09
3	McDonald	4	21	Victoria	RCB	B’lore	15.10.09
4	de Villiers	4	17	Eagles	Somerset	Hyd’bad	16.10.09

CJD de Villiers’s 4 for 17 in this game represent the best bowling figures in the tournament. The previous best was 4 for 31 by AB McDonald of Victorian Bushrangers against Royal Challengers Bangalore on15.10.09

CJD de Villiers returned with figures of 4.0-2-17-4 in this game. His two maiden overs in his four over spell earned him the distinction of becoming the first bowler to bowl two maiden overs in the tournament. His maiden overs in this game provide the seventh occasion of a bowler bowling a maiden over in the tournament.

No	Bowler	O	M	R	W
	Team	Opposition	Ground	Date
1	Lee	4.0	1	14	1
	NSW	Eagles	Delhi	09.10.09
2	Mascarenhas	4.0	1	20	2
	Otago	Cobra	Hyd’bad	10.10.09
3	Lee	4.0	1	08	1
	NSW	Sussex	Delhi	11.10.09
4	Welegedera	4.0	1	24	2
	Wayamaba	Delhi	Delhi	11.10.09
5	Mishra	4.0	1	18	1
	Delhi	Wayamba	Delhi	11.10.09
6	Kallis	4.0	1	18	3
	RCB	Otago	B’lore	12.10.09
7	de Villiers	4.0	2	17	4
	Eagles	Somerset	Hyd’bad	16.10.09

He became the 12^th bowler in the history of T20 games to bowl two maiden overs in four over spell allotted to a bowler. His figures of 4.0-2-17-4 in this game makes him the second bowler in the history of T20 games to capture four or more wickets in a four overs spell of which two were maiden overs. The other bowler was AD Mascarenhas of Hampshire who returned with figures of 3.5-0-14-5.

CJD devillers became the first bowler in the tournament to bowl two wicket maidens. He is the fifth bowler to bowl a wicket maiden in the tournament. Incidentally, his both maiden overs are wicket maidens

No	Bowler	Team	Opposition	Ground	Date
1	Lee	NSW	Eagles	Delhi	09.10.09
2	Macarehnhas	Otago	Cobras	Hyd’bad	10.10.09
3	Mishra	Delhi	Wayamba	Delhi	11.10.09
4	Kallis	RCB	Otago	B’lore	12.10.09
5	deVilliers	Eagles	Somerset	Hyd’bad	16.10.09

WJ Durston with his 57 in this game became the first Somerset batsman to score a fifty in the tournament. His knock provides the 14^th occasion of a batsman registering a fifty in the tournament. He became the first batsman in the tournament to register a fifty while batting at number seven

WJ Durston’s 57 in this game was in a losing cause providing the fifth occasion of a batsman’s fifty going in vain in the tournament.

No	Batsman	Runs	Team	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	Uthappa	51	RCB	Cobras	B’lore	08.10.09
2	Taylor	53*	RCB	Cobras	B’lore	08.10.09
3	Jayawardene	53	Wayamba	Delhi	Delhi	11.10.09
4	Gilchrist	51	Deccan	Tri-Tob	Hyd’bad	14.10.09
5	Durston	57	Somerset	Eagles	Hyd’bad	16.10.09

WJ Durston and JC Heldreth added 77 runs for the sixth wicket in this game providing the 18^th occasion of a 50 plus runs partnership in the tournament. This stand also provide the first occasion of a 50 plus runs partnership for the sixth wicket in the tournament.