IPL 2021: CSK vs RCB, Stats Review – Jadeja’s outstanding feat and more stats
Chennai Super Kings registered a dominating victory against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the crucial IPL clash played at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. This was their fourth consecutive win this season. They have now reached the top spot in the points table. On the other hand, RCB faced their first loss of IPL 2021.
CSK posted a total of 191/4 in 20 overs after electing to bat first. Ravindra Jadeja smashed 62 runs off only 28 balls with the help of 5 sixes and 4 fours. Chasing this total, RCB could manage a score of only 122/9 thus losing the game by 69 runs. Ravindra Jadeja was phenomenal with the ball as well picking up 3 wickets for 13 runs in his 4 overs.
Let’s look at important stats and numbers after the end of the IPL clash between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings:
37 – Harshal Patel conceded 37 runs in the final over of the first innings. This is the record for joint-most runs conceded by a bowler along with P Parameswaran in IPL.
??????? at Wankhede feat. @imjadeja ?
A record 37 runs were scored off the final over!#CSKvRCB #IPL2021 pic.twitter.com/9bmzYyOJ0J
— 100MB (@100MasterBlastr) April 25, 2021
3 – Ravindra Jadeja became the third player to hit 5 sixes in an over of IPL. Apart from him, Chris Gayle and Rahul Tewatia also smashed 5 sixes in an IPL over.
1 – Ravindra Jadeja is the first CSK player to score a fifty and pick 3 wickets in an IPL match.
200 – Suresh Raina completed 200 sixes in IPL during his innings today. He is the fourth Indian player to reach the landmark after MS Dhoni, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli.
In walks @ImRaina and smacks his 200th IPL six?#CSKvRCB #IPL2021 pic.twitter.com/K7SBPybvrG
— 100MB (@100MasterBlastr) April 25, 2021
50 – Shardul Thakur completed his 50 IPL wickets in this match. This was also his 50th game in the tournament.
62 – Ravindra Jadeja also registered his highest individual IPL score (62) in this match. This was just his second fifty in the cash-rich league.
350 – This was the 350th T20 match for Daniel Christian. He became the first Australian player to achieve the milestone.
2 – This was the largest victory for CSK against RCB in IPL in terms of margin of runs. The biggest victory of 92 runs came in 2009.
9 – This was the 9th IPL fifty for Faf du Plessis since 2019. He has smashed the most fifties for CSK since that year.
8 – Though Yuzvendra Chahal scored only 8 runs in this match, it was his highest individual score in IPL.
