Stats Analysis

Priyansh Arya racks up the records; CSK stack up the drops

Stats highlights from Punjab Kings' victory against Chennai Super Kings

Jaffer: Hope to see Arya in India colours soon

Jaffer: Hope to see Arya in India colours soon

Piyush Chawla and Wasim Jaffer are all praise for the batter following his 42-ball 103

39 - The number of balls Punjab Kings (PBKS) batter Priyansh Arya took to score his century against Chennai Super Kings (CSK), the second-fastest by an Indian in the IPL behind Yusuf Pathan's 37-ball hundred against Mumbai Indians (MI) in IPL 2010.

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4 - Arya's hundred is also the joint-fourth-fastest in the IPL and the second-fastest for PBKS behind David Miller's 38-ball century against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in 2013.

310.00 - Arya's strike rate against CSK's fast bowlers - he scored 62 runs off 20 balls. Only two batters have had a higher strike rate against quicks in an IPL match (minimum of 20 balls) - 348.00 by Suresh Raina vs Kings XI Punjab (now PBKS) in 2014 and 342.85 by Jake Fraser-McGurk vs MI in 2024.

136 - Runs that PBKS scored after the fall of their fifth wicket against CSK - the most any team has scored after that point in an IPL innings while batting first. It is also the joint-fourth-highest by any team in an IPL innings.

2 - Number of batters before Arya with centuries in a men's T20 in which none of the others in the top six got to double-digits.

Michael Bracewell scored 141* for Wellington batting at No. 3 against Central Districts in 2022 when 5 was the next-highest from among the top six.

Saber Zakhil scored 100* from No. 8 for Belgium against Austria in 2021, where all the top seven batters got out for four or fewer.

12 - Catches dropped by CSK in IPL 2025, including five against PBKS on Tuesday - the most by any team in this tournament. Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and PBKS are joint-second with six.

9 - Catches dropped in Mullanpur on Tuesday - five by CSK and four by PBKS, the most in an IPL match, according to ESPNcricinfo's ball-by-ball logs, surpassing the eight dropped catches by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at Eden Gardens in 2023.

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Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo