King XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders (27th March 2010)

Result: Kolkata Knight Riders won by 39 runs

Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first and scored 183/5 in 20 overs, their height total in IPL. Ganguly scored and late stike of 75 by Manoj Tiwary at the end of the innings help them put a fighting total. Chasing the target KXIP lost Bopara early. Yuvraj tried to play some strokes but failed to Agarkar who also took the wicket of Bisla. After Sangakara stumped out, Irfan played some good strokes but could prevent their team from defeat.

Numbers that mattered, Match 23

183 Kolkata posted their highest total in IPL 2010.

37 Number of sixes conceded by Piyush Chawla – most for any bowler in IPL history. He was earlier at level with Shane Warne.

19 Runs scored in the first over of Kolkata innings as Chris Gayle took on Brett Lee. This is the most expensive opening over in IPL 2010. Rajasthan Royals had made 14 against Delhi Daredevils on March 15.

16.50 Yuvraj’s batting average in 6 matches in IPL 2010. In 2008 and 2009 he averaged 23.00 and 28.33 respectively.

16 Innings after which Sourav Ganguly scored a fifty in IPL. Interestingly his last fifty had also come against the same opponents in 2008 when he made an unbeaten 86 at Kolkata.

5 Kings XI Punjab became the first side to lose 5 matches in IPL 2010.

2 Manoj Tiwary became the fifth player to win two (or more) Man-of-the-match awards in IPL  2010 after Jacques Kallis, Sachin Tendulkar (3 each), Andrew Symonds and Yusuf Pathan (2 each).