Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders (29th March 2010)

Result: Delhi Daredevils won by 40 runs

Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to bat first. David Warner scored his maiden IPL hundred, 107 not out in 69 balls and Collingwood scored 53 in 45 balls helping Daredevils to score 177/4 in 20 overs. Chasing the target Kolkata Knight Riders lost wickets regularly finally bundling out to 137/9 in 20 overs. Gayle top scored 30 from KKR.

David Warner was declared as the Man of the Match for the superb innings of 107 in 69 balls.

Numbers that mattered, Match 26

3 Number of batsmen to get dismissed off the last ball of the first three overs in Delhi Daredevils’ innings.

10 Number of hundreds scored in the IPL. David Warner became the second batsman to score a century in IPL 2010. The first centurion of IPL 2010 was Yusuf Pathan. Interestingly, five of 10 IPL centuries have been scored by Australians.

24 Number of boundaries conceded by Ishant Sharma in IPL 2010 - the most by any bowler.

40 Victory margin for Delhi Daredevils – their biggest margin ever in IPL, in terms of runs. Their previous biggest win was by 17 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore on March 25.

53 Paul Collingwood’s score. He became the fifth Delhi batsman to score a fifty on IPL debut. The others to share this honour are: Gautam Gambhir, Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner and Kedar Jadhav.

121 Balls after which Murali Kartik conceded the first six off his bowling in IPL 2010.

128 Runs added by David Warner and Paul Collingwood – the highest fourth-wicket partnership in all IPL matches. The previous best was 113 (unbroken) between Robin Uthappa and Dwayne Bravo for Mumbai Indians against Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008.