Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Statistical highlights
The statistical highlights from Match 18 of IPL between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Bangalore.
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- Updated: April 16, 2012 12:24 am IST
The statistical highlights from Match 18 of IPL between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Bangalore.
# Ten sixes were rgistered in Rajasthan's innings - their highest tally against Bangalore in the IPL.
# Mayank Agarwal became the first and only player to complete 100 runs (ave.25.00) in four matches for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the present edition of the IPL
# Ajinkya Rahane (103 not out off 60 balls) has recorded his first hundred in Twenty20.
# Rahane's outstanding unbeaten knock is the highest for Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, bettering Yusuf Pathan's 100 against Mumbai Indians at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on March 13, 2010.
# Yusuf Pathan and Rahane are the only two centurions for Rajasthan Royals in the IPL.
# Rajasthan Royals' magnificent 59-run victory is their second largest by runs margin over Bangalore in the IPL - the biggest being by 65 runs at Jaipur on May 17, 2008.
# Rajasthan's aforesaid victory is their fourth in eight matches against Bangalore - success % 50.00.
# Rajasthan Royals, due to their better run-rate, are placed at the top - three victories and two losses out of five played.
# Royal Challengers Bangalore became the third team after Kolkata and Chennai to lose three matches in IPL 2012.
# Rajasthan Royals (195/2) have recorded their second highest total against Bangalore, next only to the 197 for one at Jaipur on May 17, 2008.
# With 260 runs at an average of 65.00 in five matches, Rahane is the leading run-getter in the IPL 2012. His tally includes a hundred and a fifty.
# Rahane has got his second Man of the Match award in the IPL - both in the present competition.
# Siddharth Trivedi (4/23) has recorded his career-best bowling performance in Twenty20 - his third four-wicket haul.
# Owais Shah (60 off 26 balls) has posted his 22nd fifty in Twenty20.
# Shah became the second batsman to complete 200 runs in IPL 5, aggregating 204 (ave.68.00) in five matches. His tally includes two fifties.
# Shah took 19 balls to register his fifty - the quickest for Rajasthan and the joint second fastest in the IPL, next only to Adam Gilchrist's 17-ball fifty (85 off 35 balls) for Deccan Chargers against Delhi on May 22, 2009. (Robin Uthappa had taken 19 balls (51 off 21 balls) for his fifty for Bangalore against Punjab on March 16, 2010).   ÂÂ
# Rahane and Shah were associated in a stand of 121 for the second wicket - Rajasthan's highest in the IPL.
# The above stand is the highest for the second wicket for Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, eclipsing the 98 between Yusuf Pathan and Graeme Smith against Deccan Chargers at Hyderabad on April 24, 2008.