Match Number 06 : Delhi Daredevils vs Rajasthan Royals : at Ahmedabad on 15.03.10 : Delhi Daredevils won by six wickets

Motera Stadium, Ahmedabad became the newest ground to host an IPL game. It is the tenth ground to host IPL matches in India.

YK Pathan was playing his 50^th T20 match in which he failed to score. He became the 111^th cricketer to appear in 50 plus T20 games. YK Pathan’s zero in this game represents his sixth duck in T20 games. It also represents his first duck in IPL games.

GC Smith hit three boundary fours in his knock of 18 in this innings. He now has an aggregate of 236 boundary fours in T20 games. His aggregate of 236 boundary fours is next to BJ Hodge’s 281 boundary fours which is a record for most boundary fours in T20 games.

GC Smith is one of the four batsmen who have an aggregate of 200 plus boundary fours in T20 games. Others are BJ Hodge {281}, BB McCullum {216} and IJ Harvey {202}.

GC Smith scored 18 runs in this game and with it he has an aggregate of 1900 runs in T20 games. He now stands fourth in the list of most run getters in T20 games. BJ Hodge {2610}, DJ Hussey {2355} and BB McCullum {2268} are the other batsmen who occupy the first three places. GC Smith with his 1900 runs moved ahead of LRPL Taylor {1885} who was occupying the fourth place prior to this game.

DP Nannes claimed his 80^th T20 wicket when he had SA Asnodkar caught by TM Dilshan for 5 in this game. At the end of this game, Nannes’s aggregate of T20 wickets stood at 80 .

DP Nannes became the sixth bowler in T20 games to capture 80 plus wickets. Others are Yasir Arafat {90}, GR Napier {88}, Umar Gul {86}, T Hendersen {84} and JA Morkel {81}

AB de Villiers took a catch in this game to dismiss YK Pathan of the bowling of F Mahroof. This catch gave AB de Villiers a tally of 17 catches in IPL. He now shares the record for most catches in IPL with HH Gibbs and SK Raina who also have 17 catches to their credit.

With a catch in this game, AB de Villiers has an aggregate of 34 catches in T20 games as a fieldsman. M van Jaarsveld {48}, DJ Hussey {47}, AD Brown {36}, LRPL Taylor {36} and HH Gibbs {36} are the other fieldsmen who have pouched more catches in T20 games than AB de Villiers.

AA Jhunjhunwala registered his maiden fifty in T20 games when he scored 53 not out in this game.

G Gambhir became the second batsman to aggregate 900 runs in IPL after AC Gilchrist who has 1023 runs to his credit. G Gambhir reached the milestone when he was on 8 during his innings of 9 in this game. At the end of this game he has an aggregate of 901 IPL runs.

V Sehwag’s 75 in this game represent his fifth half century in IPL games and ninth half century in T20 games.

V Sehwag hit five sixes in his knock of 75 in this game to take his aggregate of boundary sixes to 54 in T20 games. He became the 25^th batsman in the history of T20 game to score 50 plus boundary sixes.

No	Batsmen	Mat	6s	No	Batsmen	Mat	6s
1	LRPL Taylor	67	115	14	BJ Hodge	82	62
2	DJ Hussey	95	107	15	DA Warner	46	61
3	BB McCullum	79	105	16	T Henderson	75	57
4	ST Jayasuriya	72	84	17	JM Kemp	60	56
5	CL White	62	82	18	AD Brown	61	54
6	Yuvraj Singh	60	78	19	HH Gibbs	74	54
7	OA Shah	70	77	20	V Sewag	54	54
8	SB Styris	82	74	21	MR Ramprakash	52	53
9	JA Morkel	94	71	22	GA Hick	37	52
10	AC Gilchrist	47	70	23	Imran Nazir	39	52
11	LL Bosman	38	66	24	NM Carter	62	51
12	YK Pathan	49	66	25	A Symonds	49	50
13	RG Sharma	59	64

TM Dilshan collected his second duck in consecutive games when he failed to open his account in this game. His zero in this game represent the eleventh occasion of a batsman scoring zero in the third edition of IPL.

AA Jhunjunwala’s 53 not out and V Sehwag’s 75 in this game represent the 13^th and 14^th occasion of a batsman scoring a fifty in the third edition of IPL.

V Sehwag’s 75 in this game represent the second highest score in the third edition of IPL, the highest being YK Pathan’s 100 against Mumbai at Mub-BS on 13.03.10

GC Smith was playing his 25^th IPL match while SW Tait was playing his 25^th T20 game when they played this game.