Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders (22nd March 2010)

Result: Mumbai Indians won by 7 wkts

KKR won the toss and elected to bat first. With a classic 71 from Gayle and 31 each from Ganguly and Shah, they managed to score just 155 run in 20 overs. Though KKR had lost only 3 wickets but again failed to put a big fighting total in front of MI. With a brilliant 71 from Sachin and well supported scored from Dhawan, Tiwary and Satish they wrapped up the match in 19th over. Bowling from KKR was ordinary and main highlight was the great catch taken by Ganguly to dismiss Tiwary.

Sachin Tendulkar was the Man of the Match for his match winning innings of 71 runs, Ganguly got the Kamaal catch award and Gayle awarded with the 'Maximum sixes' award.

Numbers that mattered, Match 17

• 71 Sachin Tendulkar’s highest score in Twenty20 cricket.

• 47 Balls taken by Chris Gayle to score his fifty – the second slowest fifty for Kolkata Knight Riders in all IPL matches. The slowest is by Brendon McCullum, who took 48 balls to reach his fifty against Royal Challengers Bangalore at Centurion in 2009.

• 22 Number of boundaries conceded by Ishant Sharma – the most by any bowler in IPL 2010. He crossed Farveez Maharoof (who has conceded 15) in his first over itself.

• 15 Number of extras conceded by Mumbai Indians. They had conceded only 18 in their last 3 games.

• 8 Number of fours Tendulkar hit off Ishant Sharma. In all, he scored 36 runs off 16 balls the youngster bowled to him – that’s a strike-rate of 225.00.

• 6 The six byes conceded by Aditya Tare equalled the existing record of most byes conceded by a wicket-keeper in an innings in IPL. The record was being held till now by Delhi Daredevils’ Dinesh Karthik, who had conceded 6 byes against Mumbai Indians at Centurion in 2009.

• 5 Mumbai Indians have now beaten Kolkata Knight Riders in all their five encounters against each other.

• 4.2 Overs needed by Mumbai Indians for their fifty – the fastest in IPL 2010, equalling Deccan Chargers’ record (vs Chennai Super Kings at Chennai on March 14).