15.4 Overs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) took to complete their chase of 202 against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the opening game of IPL 2026 - the quickest any team has successfully chased a target of 200-plus runs.
4 Number of successful 200-plus chases for RCB in the IPL. Three have come in their last four attempts. RCB had won only one of their first 18 attempts of a 200-plus chase in the IPL.
21 Number of balls Devdutt Padikkal took to complete his half-century against SRH, the fastest of his 13 fifty-plus scores in the IPL. It is his second fastest in all T20s, behind the 20-ball fifty against Jharkhand in 2019.
7 Fifty-plus scores for Virat Kohli against SRH in the IPL, the most by any batter, going past Faf du Plessis and Sanju Samson. Kohli's 874 runs against SRH are also the most against them in the league.
71.72 Partnership average between Kohli and Padikkal in IPL chases, the highest for any pair with 500-plus runs. The pair's run rate of 9.44 is the fourth highest among the 29 pairs with 500-plus runs in IPL chases. They have shared three 100-plus stands in 13 IPL chases, behind Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa's four.
3 for 22 Jacob Duffy's bowling figures against SRH are the fifth best for any bowler in their maiden IPL game for RCB. Only seven bowlers before him had taken three wickets in the powerplay for RCB.
3 Dismissals for Travis Head against Duffy in four T20 innings, for 22 runs in 19 balls. Abhishek Sharma, who also got out to Duffy, had previously scored 81 runs off 31 balls against him while being dismissed once.
24 Number of sixes Aniket Verma has hit in his IPL career so far, in just 160 balls. Aniket's balls per six ratio of 6.67 is the third best among all batters with 20-plus sixes, behind Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (5.08) and Jake Fraser-McGurk (6.43).
233 Number of T20 matches David Payne played before making his IPL debut, the most by any player. Dawid Malan played 227 T20 games before his IPL debut in 2021.
Payne had 304 T20 wickets before Saturday's debut, the most by any player at the time of IPL debut. Adil Rashid's 232 wickets are the second most, while Jacob Duffy, another debutant on Saturday, is third with 189.