Rajasthan Royals vs King XI Punjab (7th April 2010)

Result: Rajasthan Royals won by 9 wkts

Kings XI Punjab won the toss and elected to bat and scored 153/6. Mahela Jayawardene was top scorer with 44 runs. RR started the chase in a hurry. Lumb scored 83 in 43 balls. Naman Ojha played a nice innings of 44 with well support from Yusuf Pathan and chased the target in 15 overs just losing one wicket.

Michael Lumb was the Man of the Match, Kamaal catch award went to 'Piyush Chawla' while Maximum sixes award went to 'Yuvraj Singh'.


Numbers that mattered, Match 38

0  Number of boundaries hit by Punjab batsmen after 15th over. This provided the first instance of a side not hitting a single boundary in last 5 overs in IPL 2010.

3.5   Overs taken by Rajasthan to score the fifty- fastest fifty by any side in IPL 2010. The previous fastest was in 4.1 overs for Delhi v Bangalore at Bangalore on March 25.

8  Rajasthan have now won all 8 matches they have played at Jaipur.

8  Yusuf Pathan held his 8th catch to become the leading fielder in the tournament, moving ahead of Suresh Raina and David Warner.

8.3  Overs taken by Rajasthan to race to their hundred – fastest 100 for any side in IPL 2010. Mumbai held the previous record as they took 9 overs to score their 100 against Delhi at Delhi on March 17.

9 The victory margin of 9 wickets is the largest for Rajasthan in IPL. They had registered a 8-wicket win on three occasions.

16  Number of fours hit by Michael Lumb – most by any batsman in an innings in IPL history. The previous record was held by Punjab’s Mahela Jayawardene with 14 fours against Kolkata at Kolkata on April 4, 2010.

27  Runs scored by Punjab between 16th and 20th overs. This equals the worst performance by any side in last 5 overs in IPL 2010. Chennnai had also scored only 27 runs against Punjab at Chennai on March 21.

109  Runs added by Michael Lumb and Naman Ojha for the first wicket – Rajasthan’s highest partnership for any wicket in IPL 2010.