IPL Stats: Amit Mishra catches up with Lasith Malinga as top wicket-taker

Punjab vs Hyderabad

Statistical Highlights:

 

# Mishra, with 85 wickets at an average of 19.96 in 66 matches, has equalled Lasith Malinga's feat of 85 wickets at 17.09 in 59 matches in the IPL. Mishra is now the joint top-highest wicket-taker in IPL history.

# Sunrisers Hyderabad became the first team to register five wins out of seven played at the IPL 2013.

# The three teams to have lost most number of matches at the IPL are Deccan Chargers (46), Delhi Daredevils(40) and Kings XI Punjab (40).

# Kings XI Punjab's 123 for 9 is their lowest score in the IPL 2013.

# Adam Gilchrist, since recording 64 not out off 46 balls against Chennai at Dharmsala on May 17, 2012, has posted his highest score in six IPL innings.

# In five IPL innings this season, Gilchrist is averaging 11.40 - 57 runs in five innings.

# Amit Mishra, with eleven wickets at 15.18 runs apiece in seven matches, is the top wicket-taker in the IPL 2013, followed by Sunil Narine - 10 (ave.12.20) in five matches.

# Of the top seven bowlers with 9 wickets or more in the IPL 2013, three belong to Sunrisers Hyderabad. Apart from Mishra, Ishant Sharma and Thisara Perera have claimed 9 wickets each.

# David Hussey, with 124 runs at an average of 31.00 in five matches, is the only Punjab player to manage 100 runs in the IPL 2013.

# No other Punjab player has averaged even 22.00 in the present edition while Manan Vohra's unbeaten 43 off 28 balls against Pune Warriors at Pune on April 7 remains the highest individual innings for Punjab in the IPL 2013.

# Manpreet Gony has recorded his fifth duck in 28 innings in Twenty20.

# Hanuma Vihari (46 off 39 balls) has posted his highest score in Twenty20.

# Vihari has received his second Man of the Match award at the IPL 2013.

# Cameron White is averaging 17.28 as a batsman - his tally being 121 runs in seven innings.

# Thisara Perera, with 140 runs at an average of 23.33 in seven games, is the leading run-getter for Sunrisers Hyderabad.

# Thanks to his nine sixes in the tournament, Perera enjoys an impressive strike rate of 150.53. Amongst the batsmen with 125 runs or more at the IPL 2013, only Mahendra Singh Dhoni has a better strike rate - 138 runs in four innings at an average of 34.50 - his strike rate being 162

# The top four six-hitters in the IPL are - Chris Gayle (16), Virat Kohli (11), Rohit Sharma (10) and Perera (9).