{"id":596599,"date":"2026-04-09T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/596599\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:31:09","slug":"stats-mukul-mania-in-kolkata-seven-sixes-staggering-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/596599\/","title":{"rendered":"Stats &#8211; Mukul mania in Kolkata: Seven sixes, staggering impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>54 Runs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/lucknow-super-giants-1298768\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucknow Super Giants<\/a> (LSG) successfully chased down after the fall of their seventh wicket against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/kolkata-knight-riders-335971\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kolkata Knight Riders<\/a> (KKR) on Thursday at Eden Gardens. These are the second most runs successfully chased after losing seven wickets in the IPL. The highest was 61 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/chennai-super-kings-335974\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chennai Super Kings<\/a> (CSK) against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/mumbai-indians-335978\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mumbai Indians<\/a> (MI) in the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/ipl-2018-1131611\/mumbai-indians-vs-chennai-super-kings-1st-match-1136561\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">season opener at Wankhede<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>52 Runs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/mukul-choudhary-1354217\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mukul Choudhary<\/a> scored in the death overs of the chase. Only one batter scored 50-plus runs in a successful IPL chase before him &#8211; Kieron Pollard against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/8048\/scorecard\/598060\/mumbai-indians-vs-sunrisers-hyderabad-62nd-match-indian-premier-league-2013\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in 2013<\/a>, where he scored 57 off 17 balls at the death when MI needed 62 off 24.<\/p>\n<p>1 Choudhary&#8217;s unbeaten 54-run partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/avesh-khan-694211\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avesh Khan<\/a> is the highest by any pair for <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/stats\/index.html?class=6;filter=advanced;groupby=innings;innings_number=2;orderby=fow_runs;partnership_wicketmin1=8;partnership_wicketval1=partnership_wicket;result=1;template=results;trophy=117;type=fow;view=innings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eighth or lower wicket<\/a> in a successful IPL chase. The previous highest was 52* by Rinku Singh and Umesh Yadav, three years ago against Gujarat Titans (GT).<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/cricket\/story\/_\/id\/48440357\/ipl-2026-lsg-vs-kkr-justin-langer-earmarks-mukul-choudhary-even-bigger-hits\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1531187_1296x1296.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>96.3 Percentage of runs Choudhary scored during his unbeaten 54-run partnership with Avesh, as he scored 52 of those from 21 balls. Avesh faced only three balls and took a single at the start of the 20th over, while another run was a bye on the last ball to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p>It is the highest contribution made by a player during a 50-plus stand in the IPL. The previous highest was 94.64 by Romario Shepherd during his 56-run partnership with Tim David <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/8048\/scorecard\/1473489\/royal-challengers-bengaluru-vs-chennai-super-kings-52nd-match-indian-premier-league-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last year against CSK<\/a>. Shepherd scored 53 of those, while David got to face only one ball across the 2.2 overs of mayhem.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\"\/>play<\/p>\n<p>3:21<\/p>\n<p>KKR vs LSg, IPL 2026 &#8211; Finch, Steyn break down Mukul Choudhary&#8217;s technique<\/p>\n<p class=\"contentItem__subhead\">Long levers, strong core and wrists are some of the things that make him special<\/p>\n<p>7 Sixes Choudhary struck during his unbeaten 27-ball 54 are the <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/stats\/index.html?batting_positionmin1=7;batting_positionval1=batting_position;class=6;filter=advanced;orderby=sixes;template=results;trophy=117;type=batting;view=innings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joint-third most<\/a> by any batter while batting at No. 7 or lower in an IPL innings. His seven sixes are also the <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/stats\/index.html?batting_positionmin1=7;batting_positionval1=batting_position;class=6;filter=advanced;innings_number=2;orderby=sixes;result=1;template=results;trophy=117;type=batting;view=innings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joint-most<\/a> while batting at No. 7 or lower in a successful IPL chase, alongside Dwayne Bravo against MI in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>8 Instances of KKR losing an IPL match on the last ball <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/team\/335971.html?class=6;filter=advanced;innings_number=2;orderby=amount_balls;orderbyad=reverse;result=2;team_view=bowl;template=results;trophy=117;type=team;view=results;wicketsmin1=1;wicketsval1=wickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">while defending a total<\/a>, the most such defeats for any team. MI is second behind KKR with seven last-ball defeats.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was the second time LSG completed a chase on the last ball of an IPL game, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/indian-premier-league-2023-1345038\/royal-challengers-bangalore-vs-lucknow-super-giants-15th-match-1359489\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first being<\/a> against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>5-2 LSG&#8217;s win-loss record <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/stats\/index.html?class=6;filter=advanced;opposition=6903;orderby=start;team=4341;template=results;trophy=117;type=team;view=results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against KKR<\/a> in the IPL, including a 3-1 record at KKR&#8217;s home ground, Eden Gardens. Both KKR wins over LSG came in the 2024 season, when they won the title. Three of LSG&#8217;s four previous wins against KKR have been by margins of 4 runs, 1 run and 2 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"54 Runs Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) successfully chased down after the fall of their seventh wicket against Kolkata&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-596599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}