The Indian Premier League’s sixth season has been one of the most exciting ones as compared to the other five seasons. This season has seen a couple of hat-tricks, a couple of centuries, a record fastest century, a record individual score, a record number of sixes in an innings, a record number of… well, the list can go on.

There are records both on the personal level and the team level. The match against Kings XI Punjab and Pune Warriors India was one such. Records were created during the exciting run chase. Here are a few of them.

Aaron Finch was leading the Pune team in the match in which he scored 64 runs off just 42 balls. It was also the debut captaincy for Finch. This knock by Finch is the highest by a captain on debut.

Apart from Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir, Finch has become the fourth player to have scored at least three half-centuries. Mandeep Singh was one of the architect’s of the win for the Punjab team. He became the first player for Punjab to score a half-century in this edition. Before that it was Manan Vohra who had scored 43 runs.

Punjab chased down a mammoth target of 186 runs. That was the highest successful run chase in the tournament until then. There was another high point for Punjab in this match. Praveen Kumar became only the first bowler to have bowled as many as three maidens in IPL 2013.

Towards the end of the match, it was David Miller who brought Punjab the accolades for the win. Batting at a strike rate of almost 200, he scored 80 runs off 41 balls. It was the highest personal score for a Punjab batsman in this sixth edition of the tournament. Interestingly, it was the first half-century for Miller in IPL.

These efforts from Miller also won him his first ever man of the match award. The two half-centuries by Mandeep Singh and David Miller developed into an unbeaten stand of 128 runs. This was the highest partnership for the fourth wicket for Punjab in the history of the IPL. This is also the highest stand for the Punjab-Pune matches.

Article Posted By : abhi_bangal  On April 29, 2013lView All Articles

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Kings XI Punjab , Pune Warriors , Aaron Finch , Mandeep Singh , David Miller