09/05Result
31st match (N), Pepsi Indian Premier League at Bengaluru, May 9 2014
Kings XI won by 32 runs
Player of the Match
Sandeep Sharma
Sandeep SharmaPunjab Kings
09/05Result
31st match (N), Pepsi Indian Premier League at Bengaluru, May 9 2014
Kings XI won by 32 runs
Player of the Match
Sandeep Sharma
Sandeep SharmaPunjab Kings

Match Day

2655dESPNcricinfo staff

RCB 'not playing too well as a team' - Morkel

Albie Morkel has said RCB were "not playing too well as a team yet," and put their struggles down to top-order wobbles and the bowlers conceding too many extras

3123dKarthik Krishnaswamy

Kohli's déjà vu

Plays of the day from the match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kings XI Punjab

Match-winners

2

Number of players who have won 3 or more MoM awards this IPL – Glenn Maxwell (4) and Sandeep Sharma (3)

Purple patch

14

Number of wickets taken by Sandeep Sharma in this IPL – joint highest with Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Losing streak

4

Number of consecutive games in which KXIP have beaten RCB before today – all while chasing

Explosive

145

AB de Villiers strike rate when he bats at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Shaky

19

Number of wickets that RCB have lost in the Powerplay in this IPL – the most for any team

Not many big scores

1

Number of 50+ scores for Sachin Rana in 32 T20 matches

Chasers

6

Number of times that 195+ totals have successfully been chased down in the IPL (in 35 attempts)

Above average

157

Avg first-innings score in this IPL – KXIP have scored more than 165 in 4 out of 5 innings when they have batted first

Costly

26

Number of runs conceded in the 16th over, by Harshal – two less than the most expensive over this season

Wack stat

19

No of fours that Miller had scored in the middle overs (7th to 15th) – he has scored only 2 fours outside the middle overs

Carnage

107

Number of runs scored in the first 10 overs by KXIP today – the best of any team in this IPL

Boring middle overs?

9.95

KXIP's run-rate in the middle overs (7th - 15th) in this IPL - the best for any franchise

Power packed

64

Runs scored by KXIP in the Powerplay - this is their best in this IPL.

Dot dot dot

47.50

Sehwag’s dot ball percentage this IPL (min. 100 balls) – only Watson and Yuvraj are worse (joint at 47.69)