IPL 2019, Match 15: Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings - Statistical Highlights

On Wednesday (3rd April) night, the host side Mumbai Indians (MI) beat the defending champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 37 runs. Playing their fourth match in IPL 2019, CSK suffered their first defeat in this season.

After CSK captain MS Dhoni sent the host side to bat first, MI scored 170/5 (20 overs). Chasing down that target, MI faced massive trouble from the beginning and only managed to score 133/8 (20 overs).

Brief Scores: MI – 170/5 in 20 overs (Suryakumar Yadav 59, Krunal Pandya 42; Ravindra Jadeja 1/10)

CSK – 133/8 in 20 overs (Kedar Jadhav 58, Suresh Raina 16; Hardik Pandya 3/20)

Result – MI won by 37 runs

Here are some of the statistical highlights of the match:

Teams’ stats

MI

i) It was the 100th IPL victory for MI (including one super-over victory). They are the first team to win 100 IPL matches.

ii) MI beat CSK by 37 runs. With this victory, MI ended their almost six-year-long wait to beat CSK at Wankhede Stadium (Mumbai) in the IPL round-robin stages. Before this victory, MI previously beat CSK at this venue during the IPL round-robin stages was on 5th May 2013.

Players’ stats

MI

i) By the end of this match, Kieron Pollard has hit 30 IPL sixes against CSK. Virat Kohli has also hit 30 IPL sixes against CSK, but no other batsman has hit more IPL sixes against this side.

ii) The right-arm pacer Lasith Malinga has taken 26 IPL wickets against CSK. The Sri Lankan pacer has created a new record as he is the most wicket-taker against CSK in IPL history. Harbhajan Singh, the Indian off-spinner, is in the next position with 24 IPL wickets against this Chennai franchise.

CSK

i) The Caribbean medium-pacer Dwayne Bravo completed his 100 IPL wickets for CSK as he has picked up 100 wickets in 81 IPL matches for this franchise. He is the first bowler to take 100 IPL wickets for this franchise. Meanwhile, the right-arm medium-pacer is also the fourth bowler to take 100 IPL wickets for a team. Lasith Malinga (MI), Harbhajan Singh (MI) and Sunil Narine (KKR) were the first three bowlers to take 100 IPL wickets for a particular team.

ii) MS Dhoni has scored 4,010 T20 runs for CSK. After Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni is the second cricketer to score 4,000+ T20 runs for this franchise. Suresh Raina has scored 5,087 runs for this side.

iii) Suresh Raina has scored 803 IPL runs against MI. In IPL history, no other batsman has scored more runs against a particular team. Chris Gayle is in the next position with 797 IPL runs against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP).