Delhi Daredevils vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (4th April 2010)

Result: Delhi Daredevils won by 37 runs

Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to bat first and scored 184/5 in 20 overs. Paul Collingwood scored 75 not out after initial good score by Sewhag and Warner. RCB failed to a good start and started losing wickets in regular intervals. Except, Kallis who scored 54 other batsman failed to impress in the match and the team was restricted to 147/9. With the win Daredevils move to the 2nd position in the point table.

Collingwood was the MoM for his outstanding knock, who also won the 'Maximum sixes' award. Cameron White gets the 'Kamaal catch of the match' award.


Numbers that mattered, Match 35

1  Jacques Kallis became the first batsman to aggregate 400 runs in IPL 2010. He is also the first Bangalore player to aggregate 400 runs in a single edition of IPL.

3  Delhi Daredevils registered their third consecutive win at their home ground (Feroz Shah Kotla).

7  Number of catches taken by David Warner in the field in the tournament – most by any player in the tournament, equalling the tally of Chennai’s Suresh Raina.

9  Kallis’ 54 was his 9th fifty in IPL – most by any batsman. He was earlier at level with Chennai’s Matthew Hayden with 8 fifties (Deccan’s Adam Gilchrist also has 8 fifty-pus scores against his name that includes one hundred).

14  Number of wickets taken by Amit Mishra in the tournament – most by any bowler. He took the Purple Cap from Mutthiah Muralitharan.

23  Number of matches won by Delhi Daredevils in the IPL (out of 38 they have played)- most by any side. Delhi went ahead of Rajasthan Royals’ tally of 22 wins.

80.00  Gautam Gambhir’s winning percentage as captain (has won 8 out of 10 games he has captained Delhi in) – highest for any captain in IPL.

1500  Number of sixes hit in all IPL games – interestingly Delhi Daredevils have hit least (153) despite having some of the biggest hitters in the game.