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Stats Analysis

Narine and Raina lead the way

A stats preview of the Champions League Twenty20 2014

Bishen Jeswant
Bishen Jeswant
16-Sep-2014
Dirk Nannes celebrates bowling Sarul Kanwar, Mumbai Indians v RCB, CLT20 final, Chennai, October 9, 2011

Dirk Nannes has played the Champions League for four teams from three different countries  •  Associated Press

4 Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Trinidad & Tobago are the only teams to have been part of four seasons of the Champions League. No team has played all five tournaments. Highveld Lions and Royal Challengers Bangalore have been part of three, while no other team has been part of more than two.
4 Dirk Nannes has represented four different teams in the Champions League, and is the only player to have been part of more than three teams in the tournament. Nine other players have played for three different teams. Nannes has played for Delhi Daredevils, Highveld Lions, Victoria and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Apart from Nannes, there are two players who have competed in the Champions League for teams from three different countries - Glenn Maxwell (Hampshire, Mumbai Indians and Victoria) and Andrew McDonald (Leicestershire, Uva Next and Victoria). McDonald, however, is the only one to have played for three non-Indian teams.
3 The top three scores by an Indian in the Champions League are by Suresh Raina - his unbeaten 94 against Royal Challengers Bangalore (2010), 87 against Wayamba (2010) and 84 against Sunrisers Hyderabad (2013). Virat Kohli ties with Raina for the third highest score, having made 84 not out against New South Wales in 2011.
9.40 Sunil Narine's bowling average in the Champions League, the best for any bowler who has bowled in more than five innings. Narine's strike rate of 12.50 is the second best, after Muttiah Muralitharan, for a spinner who has bowled in more than five innings. Narine is also the second highest wicket-taker in the tournament with 27 scalps, behind Dwayne Bravo (28).
4.3 Misbah-ul-Haq's sixes per innings ratio is the best for any player who has hit at least 10 sixes in the Champions League. Misbah has 13 sixes in three innings. Chris Gayle has a ratio of four - 24 sixes in six innings. Kieron Pollard has hit 45 sixes in the tournament, the most by any player, followed by David Warner with 27 sixes in 13 matches.
20 Thisara Perera has the poorest economy rate in an innings for a player who has bowled at least three overs in a Champions League game. Perera conceded 60 in three overs, while playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad against Chennai Super Kings, in 2013. The most runs conceded by a bowler in a single match is 69, by S Aravind, in four overs, against South Australia in 2011.
5 Henry Davids is the only batsman with five 50-plus scores in the Champions League. Davids made four of those scores for Titans, and one for Cape Cobras. Davids' five 50-plus scores were against different teams - Victoria, Sunrisers, Sydney Sixers, Perth Scorchers and Super Kings. Callum Ferguson, Ajinkya Rahane, Michael Hussey and Raina have made four 50-plus scores each.
70 The lowest score for which a team has been bowled out in the Champions League - Central Districts against Wayamba in 2010. Central Districts are also the only team to have been dismissed for less than 100 twice in the tournament.
0 Batsmen who have been dismissed after scoring a hundred in the tournament. There have been six hundreds in the Champions League, and the batsman has been unbeaten every time. There has been only one instance of a batsman being dismissed after reaching the score of 90 - Chris Gayle, after making 92 against New South Wales, in 2011. There have been four instances of batsmen remaining unbeaten in the 90s.
1 Bangladesh is the only Test nation to not have had an umpire in the Champions League. Sri Lanka's Kumar Dharmasena has officiated in 30 matches, more than anybody else. The country that has had the most umpires in the tournament is India, with eight. Australia and South Africa are next in the list, with five and four umpires respectively.

Bishen Jeswant is a stats sub editor at ESPNCricinfo. @bishen_jeswant