Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Superkings (28th March 2010)

Result: Rajasthan Royals won by 17 runs

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat first. Naman Ojha top scored with 80 in 49 balls helped RR to score 177/8 in 20 overs. Batting second Superkings scored 160 run for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Murali Vijay top scored with 42 while other batsman failed to impress in this high chase game.

Naman Ojha declared as the Man of the Match.

Numbers that mattered, Match 24

100 Albie Morkel became the first player in Twenty20 history to have played a 100 T20 games.

90.90 Rajasthan Royals’ win percentage at home. They have won 10 out of their 11 home games.

58 Both sides made 58 runs in the first 6 overs – the best performances of both teams in Powerplay in IPL 2010.

50 The wicket of S Badrinath was Shaun Tait’s 50th in Twenty20s – in only his 29th match.

39 Number of sixes hit off the bowling of Shane Warne in IPL – most conceded by any bowler. He now has the ignominy of being ahead of Kings XI Punjab’s Piyush Chawla, who has conceded 37 sixes.

37 Number of wickets taken by Shane Warne in IPL. Now only RP Singh is ahead of him with 41 wickets.

9 Rajasthan Royals have kept their record intact of not losing a match while defending a target of 150 or more. They have done this on 9 occasions now.

4 Consecutive matches won by Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2010. Chennai Super Kings meanwhile have lost four on the trot.

2 Number of times Yusuf Pathan has opened the bowling for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2010. He also did so against Kolkata Knight Riders at the same ground on March 20.

1 MS Dhoni got run-out for the first time in his IPL career.

0 Shane Warne, who was on the verge of being declared timed out, got run-out without facing a ball. He became third batsman in IPL 2010 to suffer this fate after fellow team-mate Swapnil Asnodkar and Kolkata’s Angelo Mathews. Interestingly, this was the second such instance for Warne in IPL. He had also got out in similar fashion last year against Mumbai Indians.