Virat Kohli’s near-miss, Ashish Nehra-ji’s hundred and other statistical highlights from Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2017

Statistical highlights from IPL 2017 first match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Hyderabad.

59 runs scored by Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the Powerplay overs against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the opening match of IPL 2017. This is 3rd-most runs scored by a team in Powerplay overs of an IPL opening match.  The highest is of 62 scored by Deccan Chargers (DC) against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in IPL 2010 opening match. The second highest is of 61 by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) against RCB in IPL 2008.

100 wickets for Ashish Nehra in IPL. He became the 8th cricketer, 6th Indian and 1st left-arm bowler to take this much wickets in IPL. The other 7 bowlers with 100 wickets are Lasith Malinga (143), Amit Mishra (124), Dwayne Bravo (122), Piyush Chawla (120), Harbhajan Singh (119), Vinay Kumar (101) and Ravichandran Ashwin (100).

35-run defeat margin for RCB in this match, their biggest while chasing since 2013. They lost by 58 runs against Mumbai Indians at Wankhede in 2013.

1st instance of both the team captains being overseas players in IPL opening match, David Warner for SRH and Shane Watson for RCB. The first instance of an opening match involving an overseas captain happened in 2010, where Adam Gilchrist led DC and Sourav Ganguly led KKR.

1st time Warner dismissed under 50 against RCB while playing for SRH. This was his 8th match against RCB for SRH. His previous scores were 61, 59, 57, 52*, 58, 92, 69 and 14.

1st instance of Virat Kohli missing the first match of an IPL edition for RCB.

100 catches for Warner in T20s. He became 15th cricketer to achieve this feat and 3rd Australian, after David Hussey (129) and Brad Hodge (102).

55 runs conceded by Aniket Choudhary. This was his debut match in IPL and his bowling figures of 1 for 55 are now the 3rd-most expensive by an IPL debutant. Only two men — Michael Neser (4-0-62-0 in 2013) and Mashrafe Mortaza (4-0-58-0 in 2009) have done worse.

0 players older than Nehra to take 100 wickets in IPL. At 37 years 341 days Nehra is now the oldest cricketer to achieve this. The previous oldest was of Harbhajan, at 34 years in IPL 2015.

136 sixes by Yuvraj Singh in IPL, 3rd-most by a left-hand batsman in the tournament, after Chris Gayle (251) and Suresh Raina (160). Overall, Yuvraj stands at 8th in the list after Gayle, Rohit Sharma (163), Raina, Kohli (148), AB de Villiers (141), MS Dhoni (140) and Yusuf Pathan (140).

23 balls taken by Yuvraj to complete his fifty, his fastest in IPL history. His previous fastest came from 24 balls (twice), for RCB.

3rd instance of a defending champion winning the opening match of IPL. SRH became the 2nd team to do so, while KKR did it in 2013 and 2015.

4th batsman to have hit 350 fours in IPL — Shikhar Dhawan. He hit 5 fours in this match, and also became the 3rd left-handed batsman to achieve this landmark in IPL. Gautam Gambhir (422), Raina (360) and Kohli (359) are the others to have this record.

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