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Sun 10 Apr 2016, 12:00 am
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Kieron Pollard becomes the first cricketer to play 300 T20 games
300 Kieron Pollard was playing his 300th Twenty20 match – first player ever to do so. 45 Harbhajan Singh’s score – second highest by a batsman at number 8 in the IPL. Interestingly the highest is 64 also by Harbhajan against Kings XI Punjab at Wankhede in 2015. 40 Total at which Mumbai Indians had lost half their side - their lowest such total in the IPL. The previous lowest was 41 against Delhi Daredevils also at Wankhede in 2012. 32 Number of balls Ajinkya Rahane took by to reach his fifty – his fastest in the IPL. 12 Number of teams to play in the IPL, with Rising Pune Supergiants being the latest addition. 5 Number of teams RP Singh has represented in the IPL- Deccan Chargers, Kochi Tuskers Kerala, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore….and Rising Pune Supergiants. Only Parthiv Patel was played for more teams (6) in the IPL. Incidentally RP Singh was playing his first IPL match after a gap of two years. 4 Number of wickets Mumbai Indians lost in the powerplay- only the second instance for them. The earlier one was against Delhi Daredevils in 2012. 1 This match provided the first instance when none of Mumbai Indians’ first four batsmen could reach double figures. 1 Number of over Ravichandran Ashwin bowled in the match. This was the fourth time Ashwin bowled just one over in an IPL match (on all three previous occasions he had been expensive though). There have been three occasions when Ashwin did not bowl at all in a match!