Gayle, Narine, and more IPL stats
Stats highlights from the round-robin stage of IPL 2012
Chris Gayle ended up as the leading run-scorer in the round-robin stages of the IPL by a long way - his tally of 733 was 164 runs more than that of Shikhar Dhawan, who was second with 569. In all, Gayle scored 31% of his team's total bat runs during the tournament - Royal Challengers Bangalore scored the second-highest number of runs in their league games, with 2351. Gayle's stats in wins was especially awesome: his scores in the seven matches that Royal Challengers won were 81, 87, 4, 26, 82*, 57 and 128* - 465 runs at an average of 93, and a strike rate of 162.58. In defeats, he scored 268 runs in seven innings at an average of 38.28 and a strike rate of 157.64, which are pretty exceptional numbers by themselves. Gayle has also struck 59 of his team's 117 sixes, which is marginally more than 50%. Thanks largely to Gayle, Royal Challengers also struck 30 sixes more than next-best side - Delhi Daredevils are second on the sixes list with 87.
Team | Top scorer | Runs | Ave | Strike-rate | Team runs* | Percent |
Royal Challengers Bangalore | Chris Gayle | 733 | 61.08 | 160.74 | 2351 | 31.18 |
Kolkata Knight Riders | Gautam Gambhir | 556 | 39.71 | 142.19 | 2014 | 27.61 |
Deccan Chargers | Shikhar Dhawan | 569 | 40.64 | 129.61 | 2202 | 25.84 |
Rajasthan Royals | Ajinkya Rahane | 560 | 40.00 | 129.33 | 2393 | 23.40 |
Delhi Daredevils | Virender Sehwag | 484 | 37.23 | 164.62 | 2247 | 21.54 |
Mumbai Indians | Rohit Sharma | 419 | 32.23 | 129.72 | 2195 | 19.09 |
Kings XI Punjab | Mandeep Singh | 432 | 27.00 | 126.31 | 2286 | 18.90 |
Chennai Super Kings | Faf du Plessis | 398 | 33.16 | 130.92 | 2135 | 18.64 |
Pune Warriors | Robin Uthappa | 405 | 27.00 | 118.07 | 2183 | 18.55 |
Only nine bowlers have bowled more than 90 balls in the last five overs in IPL 2012. Two of them have been exceptional: Lasith Malinga has continued his form from previous seasons, with 17 wickets at an average of 9.05 and an economy rate of less than seven, but one bowler has even better numbers: Sunil Narine has confounded all batsmen with his different types of spins, and has been especially successful in the last few overs, when batsmen have tried to score off him and struggled. Narine has taken 16 wickets in the last five, at an incredible average of 8.81 and economy rate of 6.36. The other bowler who has stood out is Delhi Daredevils' Morne Morkel, who has 12 wickets at an economy rate of less than 7.50. Thus, three of the four teams in the playoffs have outstanding bowlers who've had plenty of success in the slog overs; the only exception is Chennai Super Kings, for whom Dwayne Bravo has done a lot of bowling at the death but without a lot of success.
Bowlers | Balls | Runs | Dismissals | Average | Econ rate |
Sunil Narine | 133 | 141 | 16 | 8.81 | 6.36 |
Lasith Malinga | 135 | 154 | 17 | 9.05 | 6.84 |
Morne Morkel | 132 | 162 | 12 | 13.50 | 7.36 |
Zaheer Khan | 138 | 193 | 9 | 21.44 | 8.39 |
Dale Steyn | 94 | 133 | 7 | 19.00 | 8.48 |
Umesh Yadav | 114 | 167 | 7 | 23.85 | 8.78 |
Dwayne Bravo | 102 | 154 | 5 | 30.80 | 9.05 |
Azhar Mahmood | 100 | 157 | 7 | 22.42 | 9.42 |
Vinay Kumar | 137 | 245 | 11 | 22.27 | 10.72 |
As in most seasons, this year too spinners were slightly more economical than the fast bowlers, but conceded more runs per wicket. In the Powerplay overs, pace accounted for far more wickets than spin: spinners bowled about 30% of the overs, but took less than 18% of the wickets. There were a few spinners who were economical during the Powerplay, but not among the wickets: Narine conceded only 66 runs in 14 overs, but managed two wickets; R Ashwin bowled 23 overs during the Powerplays, easily the most by any spinner, and took three wickets for 147 (economy rate 6.39). Among the fast bowlers, Steyn was outstanding in the Powerplays, taking eight wickets for 125 runs in 24 overs (economy rate 5.20). The highest wicket-taker in the Powerplays was Morne Morkel - he took 11 for 199 in 31 overs.
First 6 - wkts | Ave/ ER | 6.1-15 - ave | Ave/ ER | 15.1-20 - wkts | Ave/ ER | Overall-wkt | Ave/ ER | |
Pace | 141 | 32.29/ 7.08 | 142 | 32.37/ 7.26 | 220 | 20.19/ 9.32 | 503 | 27.02/ 7.75 |
Spin | 30 | 44.43/ 6.76 | 131 | 33.55/ 7.10 | 64 | 20.56/ 9.17 | 225 | 31.31/ 7.34 |
- Mumbai Indians were the only team to take more than 100 wickets in the round-robin matches - they took 101, followed by Knight Riders with 96. Pune Warriors (79) and Chargers (83) were the teams which took the least wickets.
S Rajesh is stats editor of ESPNcricinfo. Follow him on Twitter