IPL 5 – Match No 5 – AB de Villiers and Muralitharan star in Bangalore's win over Delhi
Match No 05 : Royal Challengers Bangalore vs. Delhi Daredevils at Bangalore on 07.04.12 – Bangalore won by 20 runs
AB de Villiers completed 1000 runs in IPL when he was on 17 during his knock of in this game. At the end of this game, his IPL run aggregate stood at 1047. He became the 22nd batsman to complete 1000 runs in IPL. The complete list read thus
| No | Player | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | C | F | Z |
| 1 | SK Raina | 63 | 61 | 10 | 1849 | 98 | 36.25 | 0 | 13 | 1 |
| 2 | SR Tendulkar | 52 | 52 | 9 | 1739 | 100* | 40.44 | 1 | 10 | 2 |
| 3 | AC Gilchrist | 61 | 61 | 1 | 1630 | 109* | 27.16 | 2 | 9 | 6 |
| 4 | JH Kallis | 58 | 57 | 8 | 1560 | 89* | 31.83 | 0 | 14 | 5 |
| 5 | RG Sharma | 63 | 60 | 9 | 1543 | 87 | 30.25 | 0 | 11 | 4 |
| 6 | G Gambhir | 56 | 55 | 8 | 1491 | 86 | 31.72 | 0 | 10 | 3 |
| 7 | MS Dhoni | 60 | 52 | 15 | 1429 | 70* | 38.62 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
| 8 | V Sehwag | 52* | 51 | 3 | 1404 | 119 | 29.25 | 1 | 9 | 4 |
| 9 | KC Sangakkara | 50 | 47 | 2 | 1367 | 94 | 30.37 | 0 | 9 | 4 |
| 10 | YK Pathan | 59 | 54 | 5 | 1294 | 100 | 26.40 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| 11 | V Kohli | 62* | 55 | 9 | 1283 | 71 | 27.89 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 12 | SE Marsh | 30 | 29 | 4 | 1274 | 115 | 50.96 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| 13 | R Dravid | 56 | 50 | 4 | 1269 | 75* | 27.58 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| 14 | Yuvraj Singh | 57 | 55 | 8 | 1237 | 66* | 26.31 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 15 | RV Uthappa | 60 | 55 | 12 | 1169 | 68* | 27.18 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 16 | DPMD Jayawardene | 49 | 48 | 12 | 1136 | 110* | 31.55 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 17 | S Badrinath | 63 | 51 | 17 | 1131 | 71* | 33.26 | 0 | 10 | 4 |
| 18 | ML Hayden | 32 | 32 | 2 | 1107 | 93 | 36.90 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 19 | SC Ganguly | 45 | 42 | 3 | 1084 | 91 | 27.79 | 0 | 7 | 4 |
| 20 | CH Gayle | 28 | 28 | 4 | 1071 | 107 | 44.62 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| 21 | AB de Villiers | 45 | 40 | 10 | 1047 | 105* | 34.90 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
| 22 | KD Karthik | 58 | 49 | 10 | 1025 | 69 | 26.28 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
DL Vettori was dismissed run out in this game providing the 337th occasion of a batsman dismissed run out in IPL
AB de Villiers scored 64 not out in this game providing the 42nd occasion of a Bangalore batsman scoring a fifty in IPL. His knock represents his third fifty representing Bangalore in IPL which are listed below
| No | Player | Runs | Opposition | Ground | Match Date |
| 1 | AB de Villiers | 65 | v Super Kings | Chennai | 16 Apr 2011 |
| 2 | AB de Villiers | 64* | v Daredevils | Bangalore | 07 Apr 2012 |
| 3 | AB de Villiers | 54* | v Kochi | Kochi | 09 Apr 2011 |
AB de Villiers and R Vinay Kumar added 54 runs for the seventh wicket in this game providing the record partnership for the seventh wicket by Bangalore batsmen in IPL. The previous best stand was 44 runs between V Kohli and RE van der Merwe against Kings Eleven Punjab at Durban on 01.05.09
AB de Villiers and R Vinay Kumar added 54 runs for the seventh wicket in this game providing the 48th occasion of a 50 plus runs partnership for various wickets by Bangalore batsmen in IPL.
AB de Villiers and R Vinay Kumar added 54 runs for the seventh wicket in this game providing the fourth occasion of a 50 plus runs partnership for the seventh wickets in IPL. The other three occasions are – 60 runs between RA Jadeja and SK Warne for Rajasthan against Punjab at Cape Town on 26.04.09 ; 57 runs unfinished stand between LR Shukla and AB Agarkar for Kolkata against Rajasthan at Durban on 20.05.09 and 54 runs between TM Dilshan and MF Mahroof for Delhi against Rajasthan at Durban on 11.05.09
V Kohli’s catch to dismiss NV Ojha of M Muralitharan represents his 22nd catch in IPL. All the 22 catches were pouched by him representing Bangalore. He became the third fieldsman to take 22 or more catches representing a single team in IPL. Others are – SK Raina – 31 catches representing Chennai and HH Gibbs – 22 catches representing Hyderabad