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Stats: Rahane has smashed his fifth fifty in IPL

April 29, 2012 22:32 IST
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Statistical highlights of the Indian Premier League [ Images ] match between Delhi Daredevils [ Images ] and Deccan Chargers [ Images ] played in New Delhi on Sunday.

- Scorecard

- Rahane's knock in vain as DD pull off win in humdinger

# Virender Sehwag [ Images ] has been adjudged the Man of the Match for the ninth time, emulating Chris Gayle's [ Images ] tally in the IPL. Only Yusuf Pathan [ Images ] has taken more MoM awards in the IPL -- 11.

# Ajinkya Rahane [ Images ] (416 at an average of 59.42 in nine matches) became the fourth batsman to make 400 runs or more for Rajasthan in a single edition of the IPL.  He has joined Shane Watson [ Images ] (472), Graeme Smith [ Images ] (441) and Yusuf Pathan (435). All three had achieved the feat in the inaugural edition.

# Rahane's brilliant unbeaten 84 off 63 balls is his fifth fifty in the IPL overall.

# Rahane's aforesaid innings is the highest individual score for Rajasthan Royals [ Images ] against Delhi Daredevils in the IPL.

Ajinkya Rahane# Yogesh Nagar (27 off 20 balls) has recorded his highest score in the IPL.

# Rahul Dravid [ Images ] and Rahane were involved in a 99-run partnership for the first wicket -- Rajasthan's highest for any wicket against Delhi Daredevils in the IPL.

# Rahul Dravid has amassed 276 at an average of 30.66, including a fifty, in nine innings, in the present tournament.

# Delhi's victory by one run is their fifth in nine matches against Rajasthan in the IPL -- winning % 55.55.

# Delhi's magnificent one-run triumph is their narrowest margin in the IPL, bettering the nine-run win over Chennai at Durban on April 23, 2009.

# Delhi's win is the third occasion of a team winning by just a run in the IPL. Punjab [ Images ] was the first team to do so twice -- vs Mumbai Indians [ Images ] at Mumbai on May 21, 2008 and vs Deccan Charges at Johannesburg on May 17, 2009.

# Delhi Daredevils is the first team to win seven games out of nine in the present competition.

# Virender Sehwag (63 off 39 balls) has posted his fourth fifty in the present edition of the IPL - his 13th in the IPL.

# Sehwag, with 372 runs at an average of 46.50 in 59 matches, is the leading run-getter for Delhi Daredevils in the present tournament.

# Sehwag has completed 100 sixes (101) in Twenty20 [ Images ].

# Sehwag became the first batsman to register four consecutive fifties in the history of the IPL -- 57 & 87 not out against Pune Warriors, 73 against Mumbai Indians and 63 against Rajasthan.

# Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ] (in 2010) and Jacques Kallis [ Images ] (in 2011) had posted three fifties in a row in the IPL.

# Sehwag's tally of 1756 at 31.92 in the IPL is the fourth highest, next only to Suresh Raina [ Images ] (1966), Sachin Tendulkar (1803) and Gautam Gambhir [ Images ] (1777).

# Gayle and Sehwag are the only two batsmen to have registered four fifties in the present competition.

# Shaun Marsh [ Images ] (1 century + 13 fifties), Virender Sehwag (1 century + 13 fifties) and Jacques Kallis (14 fifties) are the three players to have recorded 14 innings of 50-plus in the IPL.

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