IPL, which is widely called "India ka tyohar" (festival of India), has begun its 13th edition with this year's season, kickoff started from 19th September 2020.
IPL has gained popularity down the years, Cricket Frenzy is all-time high during this part of the year, IPL now in its 13th edition has had brilliant moments and epic milestones so far with two super overs. In this post, I am going to share the few unknown(well, known to die-hard fans like me ;) facts about IPL.
1) Ashok Dinda has played for 4 teams, but every single time, the franchise he played ended up in the bottom four teams, Sadly the team he has played never went to the playoffs
--In IPL 2008, he was with KKR, They finished 6th in the points table
--In IPL 2009, again with KKR, They finished 8th in the points table
--In IPL 2010, again with KKR, They finished 6th in the points table
--In IPL 2011, he went to DD, They finished 10th in the points table
--In IPL 2012, he went to PWI, They finished 9th in the points table
--In IPL 2013, again with PWI, They finished 8th in the points table
--In IPL 2014, he joined RCB, They finished 7th in the points table
2) Delhi Daredevils is the only team that has never played IPL finals(They reached playoff thrice, but never win an IPL)
3) Rohit Sharma, current captain of the Mumbai Indians team is the only player in IPL history to have won 5 IPL trophies (1-Deccan Chargers & 4-Mumbai Indians).
4) Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the only Indian Bowler to have won the purple cap twice and also the only paper to won the cap in the consecutive years 2016 & 2017.
5) Pragyan Ojha is the only spinner to win Purple Cap, he has won that in the 3rd season of the IPL in 2010.
6) Fair Play award has given to each team after IPL finals every year, Mumbai, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Hyderabad, Punjab has won each, Chennai is the only team to win 6 times that too without playing two years.
7) Brendon Mcculum has played with KKR in the very first match of IPL & he scored a whopping 158* in 73 balls, unfortunately, that is the only century by the KKR team till date.
8) In 2014 RR versus KKR match got tied, they played super over and that was even tied, later RR declared as the winner of the match, this such instance has happened only once in the IPL history.
9) RCB holds the record for the Highest & Lowest total in IPL history, In 2013 RCB scored 263/5 against Pune Warriors & In 2017, they scored just 49 against KKR, both the records have happened on the same day of the month i.e. 23rd April.
10) Dwayne Bravo is the leading wicket-taker in the single-season of the IPL i.e. 32 wickets in the 2013 edition, he broke the record of the Lasith Malinga's 28 wickets of 2011 edition.
11) Sohail Tanvir is the only Pakistani bowler to take 6 wickets haul in IPL, he has done that in the very first season of the IPL, the record was unbroken for almost 11 years one of the long-lasting records in IPL, while in 2019 Alzarri Joseph broke the record, these two along with Adam Zampa are the only 6-wicket hauls in the IPL history.
12) Paul Valthaty is the only Non-International player to scored a century in the IPL, he has scored 120 against CSK in 2011.
13) KKR along with CSK are the only two teams to win a match by 1 wicket, KKR has achieved this while chasing 184 against KXIP at Eden Gardens in 2015, While CSk achieve this in 2018.
14) Amit Mishra is the only bowler to take Hattrick with 3 different teams, he has achieved this while playing for Delhi Daredevils, Deccan Chargers & Sunrisers Hyderabad.
15) KXIP is the only team to change their captains in each season of the IPL i.e from 2008 to 2020, each season they have named a different player as their captain.
--- 2008-09-> Yuvraj Singh
--- 2010-10-> Kumar Sangakara
--- 2011-11-> Mahela Jayawardene
--- 2012-12-> Adam Gilchrist
--- 2013-13-> David Hussey
--- 2014-14-> George Bailey
--- 2015-15-> Virender Sehwag
--- 2016-16-> David Miller
--- 2017-17-> Murli Vijay
--- 2018-18-> Glenn Maxwell
--- 2019-19-> R Ashwin
--- 2020-20-> KL Rahul
While CSK on the other side has not changed its Skipper till date, they have World Cup Winning Indian Captain "Mahendra Sing Dhoni aka MSD" as captain.
16) God of Cricket "Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar" is the first Indian to hold an orange cap in the IPL when he played with Mumbai Indians back in 2010.
17) Virat Kohli & Sachin Tendulkar are the only two Indians to win MVP's in IPL, Sachin Tendulkar achieved this in 2010, while Virat Kohli in 2016.
18) Mumbai Indians initially try to keep their franchise name as " Mumbai Raisers" due to their logo appearance, but due to Sachin Tendulkar's suggestion, management decided to keep it as "Mumbai Indians".
19) CSK & MI are the only two teams to win all home matches in single-season, CSK achieved this in 2011 & they become the champions in the same season & later on they became the only team to defend their title as well, While MI achieved this in 2013 winning all 8 home matches.
Now, the 20th one is quite interesting,
20) In 2009 & 2016, Hyderabad became the IPL champions,
----- Both time, Captains was Australian
----- Both time, Opponent was RCB
----- Both time, RCB's Skipper was an Indian Player
----- Both time, Hybdreabd batted first
----- Both time, Hyderabad player's hold purple cap(RP Singh & B Kumar)
----- Both time, Hyderabad's captain was in the 2nd place in the orange cap race
