IPL stats: Gayle's record fastest ton, Bangalore's biggest win
Royal Challengers Bangalore's 130-run triumph over Pune Warriors India is their biggest in terms of runs at the IPL - the second biggest overall in IPL, next only to Kolkata's 140-run triumph over Bangalore at Bangalore on April 18, 2008. Here are few other statistical highs from the run-feast at Chinnaswamy.
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- Updated: April 23, 2013 09:53 pm IST
Royal Challengers Bangalore's 130-run triumph over Pune Warriors India is their biggest in terms of runs at the IPL - the second biggest overall in IPL, next only to Kolkata's 140-run triumph over Bangalore at Bangalore on April 18, 2008. Here are few other statistical highs from the run-feast at Chinnaswamy.
# Bangalore have won 44 and lost 39 out of 86 played at the IPL - winning % 52.94 (Tied 2 & NR 1).
# Pune Warriers have won 10 and lost 27 out of 38 played at the IPL - success % 27.02 (NR 1).
# Bangalore (263/5) have recorded the highest total in the IPL history, eclipsing the 246 for 5 by Chennai Super Kings against Rajasthan Royals at Chennai on April 3, 2010.
# Bangalore's aforesaid total is the highest in the history of Twenty20, outstripping the 260/6 by Sri Lanka against Kenya at Johannesburg on September 14,2007
# Twenty one sixes have been recorded in Bangalore's innings - a record in Twenty20, eclipsing the 18 in Namibia's innings of 223 for three against Scotland at Windhoek,Nambia on October 4, 2011. The most sixes in an IPL game previously were 17 for Chennai against Rajasthan at Chepauk on April 3, 2010.
# Bangalore became the first team to register 200 runs through boundaries in an innings in T20s - 210 runs (21 fours and 21 sixes)
# Bangalore reached 100 runs in 7.5 overs - the quickest by a team in the history of the IPL.
# Chris Gayle's unbeaten 175 is the highest individual innings in Twenty20, surpassing Brendon McCullum's 158 not out for Kolkata against Bangalore at Bangalore on April 18, 2008.
# Gayle's tally of 17 sixes in an innings is a record in any format.
# Gayle is the first batsman to register four hundreds at the IPL. His tally of eleven hundreds is a record in Twenty20. No other batsman has even recorded six hundreds. The second place is shared by two batsmen - five each by Brendon McCullum and David Warner.
# Gayle's tally of 163 sixes is an IPL record. Also his overall tally of 383 sixes is a record in Twenty20.
# Gayle is averaging 55.90 while managing 2236 runs in 51 matches. No other batsman has recorded even an average of 46.00 at the IPL.
# Gayle has become the first batsman to register 150-plus runs in boundaries in an innings. His tally of 154 runs through boundaries (13 fours and 17 sixes) is a record in Twenty20.
# Gayle's 30-ball hundred is the quickest in the history of Twenty20, outstripping the 34-ball hundred by Andrew Symonds during his innings of 112 off 43 balls for Kent vs Middlesex at Maidstone on July 2, 2004.
# Gayle had reached his fifty off 17 balls, emulating Adam Gilchrist's IPL record.
# Chris Gayle and Dilshan were involved in a stand of 167 - Bangalore's highest opening partnership at the IPL - their second highest for any wicket next only to the 204 (unbroken) for the second wicket between Gayle and Kohli against Delhi at Delhi on May 17, 2012.
# The 167-run stand is the highest opening stand in the history of the IPL, surpassing the 163 (unbroken) between Sachin Tendulkar and Dwayne Smith for Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals at Jaipur on May 20, 2012.
# Gayle is the first batsman to manage 400 runs in the IPL 6 -432 at an average of 108.00 in eight innings.
# Gayle (175 not out plus 2/5) is the first all-rounder to post a hundred and capture two wickets or more in an IPL game twice. No other all-round could do so even once. Gayle had first recorded the feat against Punjab at Bangalore on May 6, 2011 - 107 and 3/21.
# Gayle has been adjudged the Man of the Match 29 times - a record. His tally of 15 MOM awards at the IPL is a record.
# Gayle is the third player after Amit Mishra and Michael Hussey to have received three MOM awards each at the IPL 6.
# Vinay Kumar, with 13 wickets at 17.84 runs apiece in eight games is the top wicket-taker at the IPL 6.