IPL in numbers: Turner, a sitting duck!

Ashton Turner's five successive ducks in T20 cricket, slowest IPL knocks, most IPL wickets against a single opposition and more.

M. S. Dhoni averages nearly 54 in successful run chases in the IPL.

3

The number of ducks registered in successive innings by Ashton Turner for Rajasthan Royals. He became the sixth batsman in Indian Premier League history to achieve this dubious record when he was dismissed without scoring against Delhi Capitals at Jaipur on April 22, after registering ducks against Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians on April 20 and 16, respectively. He joined five other batsmen as part of this unwanted list. He also joined Shardul Thakur by being dismissed off the first ball – a golden duck! – on each of the three occasions in IPL cricket. Further, the three ducks have come in the first three IPL innings of his career – a first for any IPL batsman.

Ashton Turner’s five successive ducks in Twenty20 cricket

Balls	For	Against	Venue	Date	Result	Tournament/Series
1	Perth Scorchers	Adelaide Strikers	Adelaide	February 9, 2019	Lost	Big Bash
5	Australia	India	Visakhapatnam	February 24, 2019	Won	Internationals
1	Rajasthan Royals	Kings XI Punjab	Mohali	April 16, 2019	Lost	IPL
1	Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai Indians	Jaipur	April 20, 2019	Won	IPL
1	Rajasthan Royals	Delhi Capitals	Jaipur	April 22, 2019	Lost	IPL

Note: In between these matches, just before the IPL, Turner appeared in three ODI games for Australia, scoring 21, 84 not out and 20 in India. At Mohali, he played a match-winning knock of 84 not out in 43 balls, with five fours and six sixes!

Players with three successive IPL ducks

Player	For	Period	Balls faced
Ashoke Dinda	Kolkata Knight Riders	April 27, 2009 – April 10, 2011	1	1	5
Rahul Sharma	Pune Warriors India	May 11, 2012 – April 5, 2013	2	3	1
Gautam Gambhir	Kolkata Knight Riders	April 16, 2014 – April 24, 2014	8	4	1
Shardul Thakur	Rising Pune Supergiants	April 14, 2017 – May 6, 2017	1	1	1
Pawan Negi	Royal Challengers Bangalore	April 25, 2018 – April 15, 2019	1	1	2
Ashton Turner	Rajasthan Royals	April 16, 2019 – April 22, 2019	1	1	1

45

Robin Uthappa’s batting strike rate during his nine-run crawl in 20 balls for Kolkata Knight Riders against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Kolkata on April 19 (KKR lost by 10 runs!). This is now the slowest individual score by a batsman facing a minimum of 20 balls in the last three years of IPL cricket. Overall it is the fifth slowest innings in IPL history.

Slowest individual scores in an IPL match (minimum 20 balls)

Strike rate	Runs	Balls	Batsman	For	Against	Venue	Date	Result
30.00	6	20	Yashpal Singh	Kolkata Knight Riders	Rajasthan Royals	Durban	May 20, 2009	Won
36.36	8*	22	M. S. Dhoni	Rising Pune Supergiants	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata	May 14, 2016	Lost
40.91	9	22	Manvinder Bisla	Kolkata Knight Riders	Rajasthan Royals	Kolkata	April 17, 2011	Won
41.67	10	24	Chris Gayle	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Mumbai Indians	Bangalore	April 19, 2015	Lost
45.00	9	20	Robin Uthappa	Kolkata Knight Riders	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Kolkata	April 19, 2019	Lost
46.67	14	30	Sourav Ganguly	Kolkata Knight Riders	Deccan Chargers	Kolkata	April 20, 2014	Won
47.62	10	21	Sanju Samson	Rajasthan Royals	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Delhi	May 22, 2013	Won
48.00	12	25	Ajinkya Rahane	Rajasthan Royals	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Hyderabad	May 17, 2013	Lost
48.57	17	35	Dinesh Karthik	Delhi Daredevils	Kings XI Punjab	Delhi	April 11, 2010	Lost

30

The number of wickets claimed by Mumbai Indians’ Lasith Malinga against Chennai Super Kings is now the maximum by any IPL bowler against a particular opponent. Malinga, during his four-wicket haul in Chennai on April 26, went past the previous record of 29 wickets by Umesh Yadav against Kings XI Punjab. Yadav himself had held the record for just two days!

Most wickets against a particular opponent in IPL

Wickets	Against	Bowler	Matches	Average	Runs per over	Period	For
30	Chennai Super Kings	Lasith Malinga	19	17.17	6.91	2009-19	Mumbai Indians
29	Kings XI Punjab	Umesh Yadav	18	17.45	7.44	2012-19	Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Kinght Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore
28	Mumbai Indians	Dwayne Bravo	47	17.50	7.99	2012-19	Chennai Super Kings, Gujarat Lions
27	Kolkata Knight Riders	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	20	20.30	7.51	2011-19	Pune Warriors India, Sunrisers Hyderabad
27	Rajasthan Royals	Amit Mishra	18	17.26	7.06	2008-19	Delhi Daredevils, Deccan Chargers, Sunrisers Hyderabad
26	Kings XI Punjab	Sunil Narine	16	16.35	6.97	2014-19	Kolkata Knight Riders

3

The number of batsmen below the age of 18 years who have managed a score of 40-plus in an IPL match. In this edition, Rajasthan Royals’ Riyan Parag Das became the latest entrant and he has done so on two occasions.

Youngest batsmen to register 40-plus scores in an IPL match

Age	Batsman	Runs	Balls	For	Against	Venue	Date	Result
17 years, 161 days	Riyan Parag Das	43	29	Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai Indians	Jaipur	April 20, 2019	Won
17 years, 166 days	Riyan Parag Das	47	31	Rajasthan Royals	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata	April 25, 2019	Won
17 years, 184 days	Sarfaraz Khan	45*	21	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Rajasthan Royals	Bangalore	April 29, 2015	No result
17 years, 250 days	Abhishek Sharma	46*	19	Delhi Daredevils	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Delhi	May 12, 2018	Lost

 

Queries Corner Which ground has seen most sixes in this year’s Indian Premier League 2019? – Srihari Rao, Visakhapatnam. The full list after match No. 45. Eden Gardens, Kolkata 111 12.87 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 90 13.26 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore 83 14.42 Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Hyderabad 69 19.83 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur 64 25.43 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 56 24.77 Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali 51 23.22 Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi 49 24.33 Which team has made the most runs in an IPL match in 2019 during the death overs? – Srihari Rao, Visakhapatnam. The top four sides to make the most runs in an IPL match in 2019 in the last five overs (i.e. overs 16 to 20) are: 91/2 18.20 Royal Challengers Bangalore Kolkata Knight Riders Kolkata 82/3 16.40 Delhi Capitals Mumbai Indians Mumbai 82/1 16.40 Kolkata Knight Riders Royal Challengers Bangalore Kolkata 80/0 16.00 Royal Challengers Bangalore Kings XI Punjab Bangalore What is M. S. Dhoni’s IPL record while his team bats second? – Rajesh Kamath, Chennai. M. S. Dhoni in the IPL for both Chennai Super Kings and Rising Pune Supergiants:   While batting second 68 24 1,802 40.95 10 84* 133.38 In successful run chases 41 20 1,128 53.71 6 70* 135.74 In unsuccessful run chases 27 4 674 29.30 4 84* 129.62 In a recent ODI match at Harare, the United Arab Emirates team was dismissed for 110, but the innings did not contain a single duck. Is this a record? – Kirti Suresh, Pune. As of date, there have been seven instances of sides with totals of less than 100 that did not contain a single duck. Interestingly, this record is currently held by India when the side was dismissed for its lowest-ever ODI total of 54 at Sharjah against Sri Lanka on October 29, 2000. In that innings, Zaheer Khan’s 1 was the lowest while Robin Singh’s 11 was the highest. India lost the game by 245 runs, still its biggest ever defeat in this format.

Note: All figures above are updated as on April 27, 2019.