King XI Punjab vs Deccan Chargers (16th April 2010)

Result: Deccan Chargers won by 5 wkts

Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to field first. KXIP started well and scored a fighting total of 174/3 in 20 overs. Sangakara (52) and Jayawardene (93) were the main contributor to build the innings. Chasing the target, tough Chargers lost some quick wickets but a fine partnership from Suman and Rohit Sharma helped them to win the match by 5 wickets keeping their semifinal hope alive.

Rohit Sharma wss the MoM for his unbeaten 68, Juan Theron got the 'kamaal catch' award and
Suman got the 'maximum sixes' award.


Numbers that mattered, Match 51

500 The third six of Deccan Cahrgers' innings (by Rohit Sharma off Shalabh Srivastava) was the 500th six in IPL 2010.

93 Mahela Jayawardene’s unbeaten innings of 93 is the highest by a Kings XI Punjab batsman against Deccan Chargers, obliterating the unbeaten 84 by Shaun Marsh at Hyderabad in 2008.

61 Number of consecutive innings played by Yuvraj Singh in Twenty20s without getting a duck. He now shares the world record of most consecutive “duck-less” innings in Twenty20s with Brad Hodge.

51  Number of sixes hit by Rohit Sharma in all IPL matches. He became the fourth batsman to hit 50 sixes in IPL after Adam Gilchrist (63), Yusuf Pathan (61) and Suresh Raina (55).

49  Balls taken by Mahela Jayawardene to score his fifty – the slowest fifty ever for KXIP in IPL. Jayawardene, however, scored his first 41 runs off the 13 balls he faced.

37 Number of dismissals by Adam Gilchrist in IPL matches - the most by any wicket-keeper. He moved ahead of Delhi Daredevils' Dinesh Karthik’s tally of 36 dismissals. It was also his 12th dismissal in this edition – again the most by any wicket-keeper.

14 Dharamsala’s HPCA Stadium became the 14th Indian ground to host an IPL match. It also became the fifth new ground in this edition after Mumbai's Brabourne, Ahmedabad, Cuttack and Nagpur.

10 When Mahela Jayawardene and Shaun Marsh opened the innings, they became the 10th opening pair for KXIP in 13 matches.

10 Andrew Symonds’ catch of Yuvraj Singh was his tenth in IPL 2010 – the most by any fielder.

3 Shaun and Mitchell Marsh became the third pair of brothers to play for the opposing sides in the same match in IPL. They joined Yusuf and Irfan Pathan, who have played against each other on six occasions; and Mike and David Hussey, who did so once.

1 Punjab became the first team to be out of the semi-final race in IPL 2010. Mumbai Indians have already sealed a place, while all others still stand a chance to qualify.