Salient Stats of Match No 12 – Punjab Vs Chennai at Mahali on 15.04.18
Punjab posted a total of 197 for 7 in this game to provide its fifth highest team total against Chennai in IPL.
CH Gayle was appearing for his third team in IPL. He had earlier played for Kolkata and Bangalore in IPL. He scored 63 in this game which provides his 27th fifty in IPL. At the end of this game, his boundary fours aggregate in IPL read 300. He became the tenth batsman to score 300 plus boundary fours in the history of IPL.
CH Gayle’s 63 in this game provides his 68th half century and 88th fifty in T20 games. He scored seven boundary fours and four boundary sixes in this game which fetched him a total of 842 boundary fours and 823 boundary sixes in T20 games.
Harbhajan Singh bowled eight dot balls in this game which fetched him 1079 dot balls in the IPL tournament as a whole. He now owns the record for bowling most dot balls in the tournament. He went past Praveen Kumar who had bowled 1075 dot balls in the tournament and held the previous record.
MS Dhoni scored 79 not out in this game to provide the 16th occasion of a Chennai captain scoring a fifty in IPL. It also provides the 16th fifty of MS Dhoni as captain. It also represents his highest score in IPL. His previous best was 70 against Bangalore at Bengaluru on 22.05.11
MS Dhoni’s 79 not out was in a losing cause to provide the 77th occasion of a captain’s fifty going in vain in IPL. It also provides the fifth occasion of a Chennai captain’s fifty in a losing cause in IPL.
Punjab won this game by four runs to provide the 59th occasion of a team winning a game by single digit margin {one to nine runs} in the history of IPL. It also provides the eleventh occasion of Punjab winning a game by single digit in IPL. It also provides the eighth occasion of a team winning a game by exact four runs in IPL.
AJ Finch who is appearing for his seventh team in IPL was dismissed first ball for a duck in his first two games. He was dismissed for a first ball duck against Bangalore at Bangalore on 13.04.18 {lbw K Yadav for a duck} and again he was dismissed for a first ball duck {lbw Imran Tahir for zero in this game.