Stats - Gill beats Tendulkar's record to a six-less IPL fifty
It was also the first-ever instance of three bowlers taking four or more wickets in an IPL match
Sampath Bandarupalli
15-May-2023
Shubman Gill pulls the ball behind square • Associated Press
1 - Shubman Gill and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are the first opposing pair to score a century and claim a five-wicket haul in the same innings in the IPL. It has happened only twice before in all men's T20s - Karun Nair (111) for Karnataka and V Athisayaraj Davidson (5 for 30) for Tamil Nadu in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in 2017-18 and Saber Zakhil (100*) for Belgium and Aqib Iqbal (5 for 5) for Austria in a T20I in 2021.
22 - Number of balls Gill needed to complete his fifty, during which he hit nine fours and no sixes. It is the fastest fifty by a batter in the IPL without hitting a six. The previous fastest was 23 balls by Sachin Tendulkar against Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) in 2010
6.38 - Percentage of Titans' total scored in sixes. They hit just two of them in their total of 188. It is the lowest percentage of runs scored via sixes in a 180-plus total in the IPL. The previous lowest was 9.14% by Rajasthan Royals, who hit only three sixes in their total of 197 against Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2008.
17 - Wickets taken by the pace bowlers in this match, the most for them in an IPL game. Spinners failed to pick even one wicket in the 13 overs they bowled in this match. The previous most wickets taken by pacers in an IPL match was 15, on four instances.
15 - Wickets for Mohammed Shami in the powerplay, by far the most for anyone in this season. Only Mitchell Johnson (16 in 2013) and Trent Boult (16 in 2020) have picked up more powerplay wickets than Shami in an IPL season.
Ten of Shami's 15 powerplay wickets this year came at an average of 10.9 at the Titans' home ground in Ahmedabad. These are the joint-most by a bowler at their home venue in a season, level with Johnson, who also took ten wickets in 2013 at the Wankhede Stadium.
3 - Players with four or more wickets in Ahmedabad on Monday - Bhuvneshwar, Shami and Mohit Sharma. It is the first-ever instance of three bowlers taking four-plus wickets in an IPL match. It is only the sixth instance of three four-plus wicket hauls in a men's T20.
2 - Number of five-wicket hauls for Bhuvneshwar in the IPL. His previous five-for came in the 2017 season against Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings). Only two other bowlers have picked up multiple five-wicket hauls in the IPL - James Faulkner and Jaydev Unadkat.
95 - Number of runs added by Sunrisers Hyderabad after losing their seventh wicket, the most by any team in an IPL innings. The previous most runs added after the fall of the seventh wicket in an IPL innings was 91 by Gujarat Titans in their last game against Mumbai Indians.
Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo