Deccan Chargers vs Chennai Superkings (10th April 2010)

Result: Deccan Chargers won by 6 wkts

Chennai Superkings won the toss and elected to bat first. But they lost wickets in regular intervals. Raina played a beautiful innings of 52, helping Superkings to score 138/8 in 20 overs. Chargers started the chase and Suman again played a nice innings of 55. Though they lost some wickets towards the end, but Symonds late strike help them to overcome the target.

Ryan Harris was declared as the Man of the Match.

Numbers that mattered, Match 42

1 Suresh Raina became the highest run-scorer in IPL with an aggregate of 1,177 runs, but only for a brief while. Adam Gilchrist got his crown back soon, ending with an aggregate of 1,182 runs.

2 Number of times Deccan Chargers have won a match batting second in IPL 2010 – out of 7 such occasions.

3.25  Ravichandran Ashwin’s economy  - second best by any bowler bowling four overs in IPL 2010. He is second only to Delhi Daredevils’ Dirk Nannes, who conceded 12 runs (Econ 3.00) in his four overs against Kings XI Punjab on March 13.

4  Number of times Pragyan Ojha has dismissed MS Dhoni – the most times a bowler has dismissed a particular batsman in IPL, equalling the record of Dwayne Bravo, who has also dismissed Suresh Raina on four occasions.

8.3  Overs taken by Deccan Chargers to reach their fifty – their slowest in IPL 2010.

13  Number of times a spinner has bowled the first over of the innings as Ashwin opened bowling attack for Chennai Super Kings. There were only 3 such instances in 2008.

35  Number of dismissals made by Adam Gilchrist – most by a wicket-keeper in IPL. He equalled the existing record held by Delhi Daredevils’ Dinesh Karthik.