Wishes pour in as ‘unstoppable Dada’ Sourav Ganguly turns 52
Former captain Sourav Ganguly, famously known as 'Dada of Indian cricket' is celebrating his 52nd birthday on Monday.
In the 24th match of the 11th season of Indian Premier League (IPL), Royal Challengers Bangalore’s death bowling woes continued as they lost by five wickets despite scoring a respectable score of 205 runs against Chennai Super King at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, on Wednesday.
Here is the stats review of the match:
1- On Wednesday, Virat Kohli completed 100 matches as a skipper in the shortest format of the game. And by doing so, he became third Indian cricketer to achieve this feat – CSK skipper MS Dhoni is at number one in terms of captaining a side in T20 cricket with 245 matches and Gautam Gambhir is at second with 170 matches.
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2- In the 24th match, Virat Kohli completed his 2,000 runs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium and by doing so became the first player ever to score 2,000 runs at any particular venue.
3- On 25th April, RCB pacer Umesh Yadav completed 100 wickets in the T20 cricket – Yadav achieved this feat in his 100th match!
4- This was the fourth time in Indian Premier League when Dhoni had finished the match with a winning six.
5- Chennai skipper MS Dhoni has become the first player to score 5,000-plus runs while captaining a side.
6- Former Delhi Daredevils skipper Gautam Gambhir is at the second spot with 4,242 runs and RCB captain Virat Kohli (3,591) is at number three on the list.
7- On Wednesday, 33 sixes were hit at the Chinnaswamy Stadium by both the teams – most in an IPL match.
8- This was the third time when MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings chased down a target of 200 or more.
9- RCB had now lost 32 matches at their home ground (M Chinnaswamy Stadium) – Second most for any team. Delhi Daredevils have lost 33 matches at Feroz Shah Kotla.
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