All the major stats and facts from the sixth match between Kings XI Punjab and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Dubai.
Kings XI Punjab decimated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 97 runs in their second match in Dubai last night and registered their first win of this IPL season.
Earlier Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and asked Punjab to bat first. Captain KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal gave a good start of 57 runs. Mayank got out of Chahal's bowling. KL Rahul continued to score runs and brought up his fifty. Nicholas Pooran and Maxwell couldn't score big runs and in their absence, KL Rahul took the charge in his hands, and in the last four overs, Punjab scored 74 runs and finished on 206/3. KL Rahul played a marathon knock of 132* runs off 69 balls with 14 fours and 7 sixes.
In reply, Royal Challengers Bangalore had a very poor start and lost three wickets for just five runs including the big wicket of Kohli. Aaron Finch and AB de Villiers tried to rebuild the innings but they couldn't and the whole team bowled out for just 109 runs. For Punjab young spinner Ravi Bishnoi and Murugan Ashwin took 3 wickets each while Cottrell picked up 2 wickets.
All the major stats and facts from the sixth match between Kings XI Punjab and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Dubai :
6 - It was the sixth instance of a batsman outscoring the opposition team in a match of the Indian Premier League.
Batsmen outscoring opposition teams in a match of IPL -
B McCullum (158) vs RCB (82) at Bangalore, 2008
R Dravid (66) vs RR (58) at Cape Town, 2009
C Gayle (175) vs PWI (133) at Bangalore, 2013
C Gayle (117) vs KXIP (88) at Bangalore, 2015
AB de Villiers (129) & V Kohli (109) vs GL (104) at Bangalore, 2016
KL Rahul (132) vs RCB (109) at Dubai, 2020
60 - Number of innings KL Rahul took to reach the milestone of 2000 IPL runs. The fastest Indian and third fastest overall to reach this milestone in terms of innings.
Fastest to reach 2000 IPL runs (By innings) -
48 - Chris Gayle
52 - Shaun Marsh
60 - KL Rahul
63 - Sachin Tendulkar
64 - Shane Watson
97 - Runs win is the second-largest win for Kings XI Punjab in terms of runs in the Indian Premier League.
Largest wins for KXIP in IPL (By runs) -
111 vs RCB at Dharmsala, 2011
97 vs RCB at Dubai, 2020
76 vs MI at Mohali, 2011
72 vs SRH at Sharjah, 2014
66 vs MI at Mohali, 2008
132* - KL Rahul's 132* is the highest individual score by an Indian batsman and also the highest by a captain in the Indian Premier League.
Highest Individual scores in IPL -
175* - Chris Gayle vs PWI at Bangalore, 2013
158* - Brendon McCullum vs RCB at Bangalore, 2008
133* - AB de Villiers vs MI at Mumbai, 2015
132* - KL Rahul vs RCB at Dubai, 2020
129* - AB de Villiers vs GL at Bangalore, 2016
Highest Individual scores in IPL (By Indians) -
132* - KL Rahul vs RCB at Dubai, 2020
128* - Rishabh Pant vs SRH at Delhi, 2018
127 - Murali Vijay vs RR at Chennai, 2010
122 - Virender Sehwag vs CSK at Mumbai, 2014
120* - Paul Valthaty vs CSK at Mohali, 2011
Highest Individual scores in IPL (By captains) -
132* - KL Rahul vs RCB at Dubai, 2020
126 - David Warner vs KKR at Hyderabad, 2017
119 - Virender Sehwag vs Deccan Chargers at Hyderabad, 2011
113 - Virat Kohli vs KXIP at Bangalore, 2016
109 - Virat Kohli vs GL at Bangalore, 2016
400 - AB de Villiers became the sixth batsman to hit 400 sixes in T20 cricket.
Most Sixes in T20 cricket -
978 - Chris Gayle
673 - Kieron Pollard
485 - Brendon McCullum
458 - Shane Watson
441 - Andre Russell
400 - AB de Villiers