Maximum balls faced without hitting a six in #IPL 2024
52 - Devdutt Padikkal
34 - Harpreet S Bhatia
31 - Tanush Kotian
27 - Kane Williamson
24 - Bhuvneshwar Kumar
20 - Arshad Khan

Max balls without hitting a boundary (4/6)
14 - Mohit Sharma
13 - Gerald Coetzee

#IPL

If the straight drive from Rinku Singh, a certain four, had not hit the stumps at the other end of the final ball of KKR innings, resulting in just a single, RR's target then would have been 227 instead of 224!
What would have been the final result?
Will never know!
#RRvsKKR

IPL 100s in WON games
Min: 3 100s in #IPL career
7/7 (100%) - Jos Buttler
6/6 (100%) - Chris Gayle
4/4 (100%) - David Warner
3/3 (100%) - AB de Villiers
3/3 (100%) - Shubman Gill
3/4 (75%) - Shane Watson
3/4 (75%) - KL Rahul
5/8 (63%) - Virat Kohli
1/3 (33%) - Sanju Samson

Johnny Depp's latest upcoming movie as director is called 'Modi'.
It's not about the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi but
a biographical drama film based on the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
It's Depp's second directorial effort, following the 1997 film The Brave.

Frequent six-hitting #IPL edition
Balls/six
13.36 - in 2024 (30* matches, 525 sixes)
15.24 - in 2023 (74 matches, 1124 sixes)
15.83 - in 2018 (60 matches, 872 sixes)
16.13 - in 2022 (74 matches, 1062 sixes)
17.65 - in 2019 (60 matches, 784 sixes)

#IPL 2024

Most runs in singles, twos, and threes (batters running for their own runs!) in #IPL 2024
128 - Virat Kohli
99 - Sai Sudharsan
89 - Shubman Gill
83 - Aiden Markram
68 - Daryl Mitchell
64 - KL Rahul
63 - Ruturaj Gaikwad
62 - Sanju Samson
61 - Ajinkya Rahane

#IPL

At Ahmedabad #IPL 2024 crowd tally
Match #5- GTvMI on 24 Mar 2024 (D/N) - 80,081
Match #12- GTvSRH on 31 Mar 2024 (Day) - 44,552
Match #17 - GTvPBKS on 4 Apr 2024 (D/N) - 48,649

#IPL
#GTvPBKS

Sixes hit after the first 16 #IPL games...
in 2024: 299 sixes
in 2023: 246 sixes
in 2020: 237 sixes (in UAE)
in 2018: 236 sixes
in 2022: 236 sixes
in 2015: 218 sixes
in 2017: 210 sixes
in 2021: 207 sixes
in 2019: 200 sixes

Fewest hit:
in 2013 - 127 sixes!

#IPL 2024

Hardik Pandya as #IPL captain (first three matches)
for GT - W W W
for MI - L L L

#MIvRR #RRvMI
#IPL 2024

in #IPL2024
Most sixes conceded
8 - Bhuvneshwar Kumar/Mayank Markande
7 - Varun Chakravarthy
6 - Piyush Chawla

Fours conceded
10 - Harshal Patel/Hardik Pandya
9 - Deepak Chahar/M Siraj

No 6s: Harpreet Brar in 7 overs, R Jadeja in 6 ov
No boundaries: Sunil Narine in 4 overs

After 8 #IPL2024 games
Most runs scored
in 18th over (210 runs), in 3rd over (194), in 19th/20th (180)
Fewest runs
in 13th over (96 runs), in 8th over (121), in 6th/1st overs (125)

Most wkts fell
in 20th over (10 wkts), in 4th over (9)
Fewest wkts fell
in 7th/9th/10th (1 wkt)

The Zonal winners of #IPL 2024 are as follows..
IPL (South Zone): CSK beat RCB
IPL (North Zone): PBKS beat DC
IPL (East Zone): KKR beat SRH
IPL (Central Zone): RR beat LSG
IPL (West Zone): GT beat MI

#IPL

So far, 57 sixes have been hit in 3 games in #IPL2024 .
That's nearly 10 per inn or, on ave, a six every 12 balls!
Last year ( #IPL2023 ) saw a record 1124 sixes in 74 games, ie 8 sixes per inn or a six every 15 balls!
We can, therefore, look forward to another six-hitting treat!

.Dhawal Kulkarni seems to have a habit of making last Ranji matches memorable since 2013! 😜

Thanks for sharing such interesting trivia, Mohandas Menon! I had no idea about this.

DYK?
Sachin Tendulkar's final #RanjiTrophy match was vs Haryana at Lahli in Oct 2013.
He was involved in a vital unbeaten 50-run stand with Dhawal Kulkarni in the 4th inn as Mumbai won 4 wkts!
Kulkarni was born on 10 Dec 1988, the exact same day 15y-old SRT made his Ranji debut!

DYK?
The last side before Vidarbha to lose a #RanjiTrophy Final after winning the toss was Maharashtra when they lost to Karnataka in the 2013/14 final!
Since then, eight sides consecutively have won the title after winning the toss in the final.

#MUMvVID
#RanjiTrophy

Ajinkya Rahane is now the 26th Bombay/Mumbai captain to lift the #RanjiTrophy !
- LP Jai was the first in March 1935
- Ajit Wadekar has done it most times (4)
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Bombay/Mumbai's margin of victory in a #RanjiTrophy Final
By runs: 16
By wickets: 8
By inns: 11
Drawn: 7
#MUMvVID

42 #RanjiTrophy titles for Bombay/Mumbai
32 as Bombay and 10 as Mumbai!
26th title win at home (one at Bombay Gymkhana, 14 at Brabourne Stadium and now the 11th at the Wankhede Stadium!)

#RanjiTrophy Final #MUMvVID

Vidarbha has managed to overtake its previous highest 4th-inning total in the #RanjiTrophy

#RanjiTrophy Final
#MUMvVID

Most balls faced without hitting a six in #WPL2024
67 - Sophie Molineux (RCB)
44 - Tanuja Kanwar (GG)
43 - Amanjot Kaur (MI)
33 - D Vrinda (UPW)
27 - Chamari Atapattu (UPW)

Most balls faced without a boundary.
11 - Humaira Kazi (MI)