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Mumbai post their biggest win in IPL

April 28, 2009 11:59 IST

Following are the statistical highlights of the Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders match of the Indian Premier League, in Port Elizabeth, on Monday.

# Mumbai Indians (187 for six) registered their highest ever total against Kolkata Knight Riders, bettering the 138 for three they made in Kolkata last year.

# Mumbai Indians, with a 92-run victory (their biggest in terms of runs in the IPL) have now won all their three IPL encounters against the Kolkata Knight Riders.

# With a comprehensive win over Kolkata Knight Riders, Mumbai Indians have posted their second win in four matches in the 2009 edition of the IPL.

# Overall, Mumbai Indians have won 9 and lost eight out of 17 IPL games.

# Kolkata Knight Riders have lost 9 and won 7 out of the 17 games played till date (1 no result). They have now won only a single game out of five in the 2009 IPL.

# Kolkata's 95 is their second lowest total in the IPL. In the first ever edition of the IPL, they had made 67 against Mumbai at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

# Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya, with their 127-run partnership for the first wicket, posted Mumbai Indians' first century stand for the opening wicket in the IPL.

# Tendulkar's 68 off 45  balls is his highest score in the IPL, bettering the 65 off 46 balls against Kings XI at Wankhede Stadium last year.

# Tendulkar has now scored 351 runs (average 43.87), including three fifties in 10 IPL matches.

# Tendulkar has been adjudged Man of the match for the second time in his IPL career.

# Lasith Malinga and Abhishek Nayar recorded their his best bowling figures in the IPL.

# Jayasuriya (52 off 32 balls) has posted his first half-century in the second edition of the IPL, which is his third overall besides a hundred in the first edition.

# Mumbai Indians posted their biggest victory by runs margin in the IPL while Kolkata Knight Riders recorded their biggest defeat in terms of runs in the IPL.

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