Dubai: Kolkata Knight Riders' bowlers ensured that key batsmen of Rajasthan Royals do not fire as the Dinesh Karthik led side clinched a 37 run win here on Wednesday.
Let's have a look at important stats from the game.
Eoin Morgan completed 6500 runs in T20 games during his knock of 34 not out in this game. His run aggregate at the end of this game read 6515. He became the fourth England batsman to total 6500 plus runs in T20 games. Others are LG Wright {7962}, AD Hales {7313} and RS Bopara {7229}
Kuldeep Yadav’s lone wicket in this game fetched him a total of 40 wickets in the tournament when appearing for Kolkata. He became the seventh Kolkata bowler to capture 40 plus wickets in the tournament.
The following table lists all the seven bowlers.
SP Narine’s lone wicket in this game fetched him an aggregate of 386 wickets in T20 games. He now occupies the third place in the list of batsmen who have captured most wickets in T20 games. Others are DJ Bravo {506} and SL Malinga {390}.
It was a sort of coincidence that the rival captains were dismissed caught by rival wicket keepers in this game and are one of the rare such happenings in the tournament. KD Karthik – Kolkata skipper was dismissed caught by Rajasthan wicket-keeper JC Buttler for 1, while SPD Smith – Rajasthan’s skipper was dismissed caught by Kolkata wicket-keeper KD Karthik for 3.
KD Karthik’s two dismissals – all caught – in this game fetched him an aggregate of 216 dismissals in T20 games. He now occupies the third place in the list of wicket-keepers who have effected most dismissals in T20 games. Others are – MS Dhoni {253} and Kamran Akmal {238} KD Karthik’s two dismissals – all caught – in this game fetched him an aggregate of 157 catches in T20 games.
He now occupies the second place in the list of wicket-keepers who have pouched most catches in T20 games. MS Dhoni occupies the first place with 169 catches to his credit. This game was KD Karthik’s 185 match in the tournament.
He became the third most-capped cricketer of the tournament. MS Dhoni and SK Raina share the first place with 193 matches and RG Sharma has played 191 matches. Thus KD Karthik became the fourth cricketer to play 185 plus matches in the tournament.
This game was the 180 the match for RV Uthappa. He became the sixth cricketer to play 180 plus matches in the tournament. Others are – MS Dhoni {193}, SK Raina {193}, RG Sharma {191}, KD Karthik {185} and V Kohli {180}. RV Uthappa became the fourth most-capped cricketer in the tournament. He holds this place jointly with V Kohli who also has played 180 matches.
Kolkata’s win by 37 runs in this game provides its 94 the win in the tournament. Kolkata occupies the third place in the list of teams which have won most games in the tournament. Mumbai {108} and Chennai {101} occupy the first two places.
Kolkata’s win by 37 runs in this game provides its eleventh win in the tournament against Rajasthan. It has lost ten games against Rajasthan which includes two lost games when the game was tied. Both the teams have played 21 games.
(Written by Cricket Statistician HR Gopalakrishna)
