Sunrisers' eight-run victory on Sunday (May 29) happened to the second lowest in terms of margin of runs in an IPL final after the six-run difference between the finalists in 2009.
The final featured the top-three run-getters and wicket-takers of the tournament and aptly it was the better bowling side which came out on top. Also, the two best captains of the tournament went head-to-head and continued their excellent run with the bat, although Virat Kohli's efforts were overshadowed by David Warner. Here's the stats round up for the final of IPL 2016:
- David Warner became the fourth foreign player to play 100 matches in IPL after AB de Villiers, Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard.
- 63 for the first wicket by Warner and Shikhar Dhawan is their sixth stand of fifty or more in this IPL. The only other opening pair to have six fifty-plus stands in a season was Ajinkya Rahane and Rahul Dravid in 2013. Warner and Dhawan's 731 runs is the second most by a pair in any T20 tournament after 939 by Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers in the same tournament.
- Both Sunrisers and Royal Challengers reached 59 without loss in the Powerplay overs - the joint second-highest in a final. Mumbai Indians scored 61 for one against Chennai Super Kings in 2015 and Kolkata Knight Riders scored 59 for one against the same opposition in 2012.
- David Warner and Chris Gayle scored the joint fastest and joint second-fastest fifty in an IPL final, off 24 and 25 balls respectively. Suresh Raina's fifty off 24 balls against Mumbai Indians in 2010 and Rohit Sharma's 25-ball half-century against Chennai Super Kings in 2015 are the others.
- Warner has now scored seven fifties in as many innings for Sunrisers against Royal Challengers. His scores against them read 61, 59, 57, 52*, 58, 92 and 69. His seven fifty-plus scores are the second most for a player against a team in the IPL after Gayle's eight against Kings XI Punjab, which includes two hundreds as well.
- Warner's 69 is the highest individual score by a captain in an IPL final, eclipsing MS Dhoni's 63 not out against Mumbai Indians in 2013.
- Warner has scored nine fifties in IPL 2016, joint most for any player in a T20 tournament, with Jason Roy who also scored nine fifties in the Natwest T20 Blast 2015.
- Warner scored 219 runs in three matches against Royal Challengers in this IPL. AB de Villiers (228 runs) and Virat Kohli (209 runs), both against Gujarat Lions, are the only other players to aggregate 200 or more against a particular team in an IPL season.
- 208 for seven against Royal Challengers in the final is the highest total for Sunrisers in the IPL. Their previous highest was 205 for five in the match against Kings XI Punjab in 2014, which they ended up losing by six wickets.
- 208 for seven is the highest total for a team in an IPL final, overtaking Chennai Super Kings' 205 for five against the same opposition in Chennai in 2011.
- 61 runs conceded by Shane Watson is the most by a bowler in an IPL final. 54 runs conceded by Karanveer Singh against Knight Riders in 2014 was the previous highest. Overall it is the seventh most expensive figures in the IPL and second most by an overseas player after Michael Neser's 62.
- Watson has conceded more than 20 runs in an over thrice in this IPL - the most by any.
- Chris Gayle, when on 10, became the first player to reach 9000 runs in 20-over cricket. He took 249 innings to achieve in the landmark. He is 2068 runs ahead of the next placed Brad Hodge (6998 runs). In the process he also became the first player to hit 250 sixes in IPL.
- Royal Challengers reached 100 runs in just 8.6 overs - the second fastest team hundred in this IPL after 8.5 overs by the same team against Kings XI Punjab in Bengaluru.
- Today's was the first occasion of both captains scoring half-centuries in an IPL final - Warner scored 69 and Kohli 54. In the eight previous finals there were just two instances of captains scoring half-centuries.
- The spinners from Sunrisers took just six wickets in the entire season, the fewest spinners from a team have taken in a season in IPL history. The previous lowest was eight each in the 2008 edition by spinners from Royal Challengers and Knight Riders.
- Ben Cutting (39* & 2/35) became the third player to score 30 plus and take two or more wickets in an IPL final after Yusuf Pathan (56 & 3/22 in 2008) and Andrew Symmonds (33 & 2/18 in 2009).
- Cutting became the second foreign player to win Man of the Match award in an IPL final after Kieron Pollard in 2013.
- Royal Challengers have now lost three IPL finals, one behind Super Kings' four. Kohli is the only player to feature in all three final losses and it is the most by any non-CSK player.
- Since the introduction of the Play-Offs, it was the first time a team outside the top two went on to win the IPL. In all the five editions prior to this it was the second-placed team in the league stage that ended up winning the silverware.
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