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Yuvi's Warriors get off to a winning start

April 11, 2011 09:02 IST

Statistical highlights of the Indian Premier League [ Images ] match between Kings XI Punjab [ Images ] and Pune Warriors.

# Kings XI Punjab have won 20 and lost 23 of their 44 IPL matches.

- Scorecard

# Kings XI Punjab have faced 70 dot balls -- the most by any team so far in the present edition of the IPL.

# Dinesh Karthik [ Images ] recorded his fifth duck in Twenty20 [ Images ].

# Ryan McLaren [ Images ] (51 not out off 43 balls) registered his maiden half-century in Twenty20.

# Shaun Marsh [ Images ] and Adam Gilchrist [ Images ] provided the seventh instance when both the openers registered identical scores in the IPL.

# Shrikant Wagh (3/16) produced his career-best bowling figures in Twenty20.

# Wagh was adjudged the Man of the Match for the first time in the IPL.

# Gilchrist is the first wicketkeeper to complete 40 dismissals (27 catches + 13 stumpings) in the IPL.

# Gilchrist completed his 50 catches in Twenty20 apart from 19 stumpings in 69 matches.

# Graeme Smith [ Images ] recorded his third first-ball duck in the IPL and the fifth in Twenty20.

# Yuvraj Singh [ Images ] completed 50 sixes in the IPL. He is the fifth batsman to reach 50 sixes or more in the IPL, joining Adam Gilchrist (64), Yusuf Pathan [ Images ] (62), Suresh Raina [ Images ] (61) and Rohit Sharma [ Images ] (51).

# Yuvraj (96) needs four sixes to complete a century of sixes in Twenty20.

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