IPL 2019, Match 53: Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals – Statistical Highlights

The host side Delhi Capitals (DC) beat the visiting team Rajasthan Royals (RR) on Saturday (4th May) evening at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground (Delhi).

After the visiting side won the toss, they were restricted to 115/9 in 20 overs. Later, DC chased down that target successfully in 16.1 overs after losing five wickets. The home team won that match by five wickets with 23 balls to spare.

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Brief Scores: RR – 115/9 in 20 overs (Riyan Parag 50, Liam Livingstone 14; Amit Mishra 3/17)

DC – 121/5 in 16.1 overs (Rishabh Pant 53*, Shikhar Dhawan 16; Ish Sodhi 3/26)

Result – DC won by five wickets

Here are some of the statistical highlights of the match:

Teams’ stats

RR

i) In the first innings of this match, RR scored only 115/9 in 20 overs. It is their lowest completed total against the Delhi franchise while their previous lowest was 121 (17.4 overs) at Delhi on 31st March 2010.

Players’ stats

RR

i) Riyan Parag becomes the youngest batsman to score a half-century in IPL history. During this match, he scored his maiden IPL half-century (50 runs off 49 balls) at the age of just 17 years and 175 days. The previous youngest age for this record was 18 years and 169 days by Sanju Samson and Prithvi Shaw.

ii) With another duck in this match, Stuart Binny has scored joint most ducks for RR. He and the former RR cricketer Shane Warne both have scored seven ducks for this side.

iii) The leg-spinner Ish Sodhi had the bowling figures of 3.1-1-26-3. It is the best bowling figures by a RR spinner against the Delhi franchise.

iv) Shreyas Gopal bagged 20 wickets in this IPL season which are the most wickets by a RR spinner in an IPL season. Shane Warne was the previous record holder with 19 wickets in IPL 2008.

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DC

i) Rishabh Pant becomes the most number of IPL six-hitter for the Delhi franchise. While he has hit 88 IPL sixes by the end of this match, their former cricketer Virender Sehwag is in the next position with 85 IPL sixes for this Delhi franchise.

ii) Rishabh Pant has scored 1,047 T20 runs at the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground (Delhi). After Virender Sehwag (1,199 runs), Pant is the second batsman to score 1,000+ T20 runs at this venue.