Kings XI Punjab beat Delhi Capitals by 5 wickets at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai and registered their third consecutive win and overall fourth win of the tournament while Delhi Capitals suffered their third loss.
Earlier Delhi Capitals won the toss and opted to bat first. Prithvi Shaw's poor form continued and got out for just 7 runs. Shikhar Dhawan continued from where he left and kept smashing all Punjab bowlers and brought up his fifty. At the other end, Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant couldn't score quick runs and both got out cheaply.
Dhawan kept Delhi in the match and scored runs all over the ground and brought up his second consecutive hundred of the tournament and his 106* runs knock helped Delhi to post a fighting total of 164/5 on the board.
In reply Kings XI Punjab also had a poor start as inform KL Rahul got out off Axar Patel bowling for just 15 runs. Chris Gayle counter-attacked and smashed Tushar Deshpande for 26 runs in an over but his 29 runs off 13 balls innings didn't last long as Ashwin bowled him and in the same over Mayank Agarwal got run out for 5 runs and at 56/3 Punjab was on backfoot.
Nicholas Pooran counter-attacked in the middle order and his 27 balls fifty changed the whole game. Rabada dismissed him for 53 runs but he had done his job. In the end, Maxwell's 32 and small knocks from Deepak Hooda and Jimmy Neesham took Punjab home in the 19th over.
All the major stats and facts from the 38th match between Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Capitals in Dubai :
1 - Shikhar Dhawan became the first-ever batsman to score two consecutive hundreds in IPL.
Shikhar Dhawan two consecutive hundreds in IPL -
101* vs CSK at Sharjah, 2020
106* vs KXIP at Dubai, 2020
4 - Shikhar Dhawan has now scored 4 consecutive fifty-plus scores in this IPL season. His last four scores are - 106*, 101*, 57, and 69*.
Most consecutive 50 plus scores in IPL -
5 - Virender Sehwag (DC), 2012
5 - Jos Buttler (RR), 2018
5 - David Warner (SRH), 2019
4 - Virat Kohli (RCB), 2016
4 - Kane Williamson (SRH), 2018
4* - Shikhar Dhawan (DC), 2020
5 - Number of times R Ashwin has dismissed Chris Gayle in the Indian Premier League.
5 - Shikhar Dhawan became the fifth batsman to score more than one hundred in a single season of IPL.
Batsmen to score more than one hundred in a single IPL season -
4 - Virat Kohli (RCB), 2016
2 - Chris Gayle (RCB), 2011
2 - Hashim Amla (KXIP), 2017
2 - Shane Watson (CSK), 2018
2 - Shikhar Dhawan (DC), 2020
22 - Number of sixes Nicholas Pooran has hit in this IPL season so far - the most by any batsman.
26 - Tushar Deshpande conceded 26 runs in his one over - the most expensive over of this IPL season so far.
100 - KL Rahul has completed 100 sixes in the Indian Premier League.
164 - Delhi's total of 164/5 is the lowest first innings total to contain an individual hundred in IPL.
Lowest first innings total to contain a hundred in IPL -
164/5 - DC vs KXIP, 2020 (Shikhar Dhawan 106*)
170/4 - RCB vs Deccan Chargers, 2009 (Manish Pandey 114*)
177/4 - DC vs KKR, 2010 (David Warner 107*)
5000 - Shikhar Dhawan when on 62, completed 5000 runs in IPL. The fifth batsman to achieve this milestone.
5000 or more runs in IPL -
5759 - Virat Kohli
5368 - Suresh Raina
5158 - Rohit Sharma
5044 - Shikhar Dhawan
5037 - David Warner
