Stats - Sunrisers' first successful 200+ chase
Yuzvendra Chahal, meanwhile, one wicket away from displacing Dwayne Bravo at the top of the IPL's wicket charts
Sampath Bandarupalli
07-May-2023
Abdul Samad is embraced by players after he won the match with a last-ball six • BCCI
1 - In chasing 215 against Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers Hyderabad successfully chased down a target of 200-plus for the first time in the IPL. Their previous highest successful chase was 199, also against the Rajasthan Royals in 2019 in Hyderabad.
215 - The target chased by Sunrisers - the joint-third-highest chase in IPL history. It is also the highest chase by any team against Rajasthan Royals, surpassing Mumbai Indians' 213-run chase at the Wankhede last week.
41 - Runs needed by Sunrisers at the start of the 19th over. Only three teams in men's T20s have successfully chased more runs in the last two overs (where ball-by-ball data is available). Forty-three runs are the joint-highest, chased by Chennai Super Kings against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2012, Sussex versus Gloucestershire in the 2015 T20 Blast, and Kolkata Knight Riders against Gujarat Titans earlier this year.
6 - Number of 200-plus targets successfully chased in IPL 2023, the most in a T20 tournament. The previous highest was five successful 200-plus chases in the T20 Blast in 2017.
7 - Balls faced by Glenn Phillips for his 25. It is the least involvement for a player in an IPL match to win the Player-of-the-Match award. The previous lowest was Nuwan Kulasekara, who bowled 12 balls during his award-winning effort for Super Kings in 2012 against Pune Warriors.
183 - Wickets for Yuzvendra Chahal in the IPL after his four-wicket haul against Sunrisers. He is now the joint-highest wicket-taker in the league history, alongside Dwayne Bravo.
207 - Sunrisers' total according to ESPNcricinfo's Luck Index, had Obed McCoy completed the catch of Abdul Samad on the first ball of the 20th over. The dropped chance cost Royals ten runs, including the two runs taken on the missed attempt.
217-6 - Sunrisers' total in Jaipur, the highest by any team in the IPL at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium. No team had breached the 200-run mark in the IPL here prior to this season. Royals have already done so twice this year - 202 for 5 against Super Kings and 214 for 2 today.
Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo