Belligerent Kieron Pollard shatters Mumbai Indians record

With a six-wicket win at the Wankhede stadium, Mumbai Indians completed the double over Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday (April 28), riding on Rohit Sharma's 68 and a quick-fire 51 by Kieron Pollard. Both teams are now tied at eight points each, though Kolkata have played two fewer matches.

It was Kolkata Knight Riders' second loss of the season, both coming against Mumbai and both while batting first. Mumbai, on the other hand, won two consecutive matches for the first time this season.

Stats highlights from the match:

200: Andre Rusell became the 34th player and fifth West Indian to play 200 T20s. He is the third player from Kolkata Knight Riders to achieve this feat in this IPL season, after skipper Gautam Gambhir and Yusuf Pathan. Russell took just six years and 19 days to reach the landmark, the quickest by any.

52: Rohit Sharma has now captained Mumbai Indians most no. of times in IPL matches. He goes past Sachin Tendulkar's record of 51 matches. At the start of this match, both had exactly the same win-loss record - 31 wins to 20 losses.

100: Matches played by Kieron Pollard for Mumbai Indians in IPL, third player to do so after Harbhajan Singh and Ambati Rayudu. Like Harbhajan and Rayudu, Pollard also has not played for any other team in IPL.

11: Number of fifty-plus stands for Robin Uthappa and Gautam Gambhir for the first wicket in IPL matches in 31 innings. Only Murali Vijay - Michael Hussey pair has more 13 in 34 innings. This is also the fourth fifty-plus stand for the Knight Riders pair in this IPL.

3: Fifties scored by Gautam Gambhir against Mumbai Indians in his last four innings in IPL. In the 13 innings prior to that, he had just 182 runs with a highest score of 47. He now has exactly 400 runs against them in 18 matches.

401: Fours hit by Gambhir in IPL matches, thereby becoming the first to hit 400-plus fours in the tournament. Suresh Raina is second on the list with 338 hits to the fence.

123: Runs scored in the powerplays in the match between Mumbai and Kolkata most for a match this season in IPL. Kolkata scored 59 without loss while Mumbai reached 64 for one at the end of six overs.

29: Fifty-plus scores for Gambhir and Rohit Sharma in IPL, the joint most by any with David Warner.

279: Runs scored by Rohit in his four innings while chasing in this IPL with four fifties including 84* and 68* against Kolkata. In comparison, his scores while batting first reads 7, 7, 5 and 0.

12: The no. of times Rohit Sharma has remained unbeaten in run chases in IPL and his team. His team has gone on to win on each of the 12 occasions. Four of the instances came for Deccan Chargers and eight for Mumbai Indians.

655: Runs scored by Rohit against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL in 18 innings. No one else has more than 500 runs against them. It is the third-most by a player against a single team in IPL after Chris Gayles 724 runs vs Kings XI Punjab and Virat Kohlis 706 vs Chennai Super Kings.

5: Number of instances of players scoring 600 or more runs against a team in IPL. Rohit is the only player with 600-plus runs against two teams. Besides the Knight Riders, he also has 624 runs against Delhi Daredevils.

17: Balls taken by Kieron Pollard to each his fifty. It is:

- Joint third-fastest fifty in IPL history in terms of balls faced with Adam Gilchrist, Chris Gayle and Chris Morris.

- Fastest for Mumbai Indians in IPL eclipsing Harbhajans 19-ball effort against Kings XI Punjab last season.

- Fastest against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL, overtaking Robin Uthappas 22-ball fifty in 2010.

Kieron Pollard became the sixth player to reach 6000 runs in 20-over cricket. He is the youngest in terms of age (28 years & 352 days) and slowest in terms of innings batted (274) to reach the milestone.

6009: Runs has been scored by Pollard in T20s without scoring a hundred. He overtakes Shoaib Maliks tally of 5995 runs among batsmen with most runs never scoring a T20 century.

9: Man of the Match awards won by Rohit for Mumbai Indians in 91 IPL matches the most for them. Sachin Tendulkar and Pollard are next best with eight each. Overall he has won 12 man of the match awards in IPL, which is the joint-most for an Indian player, with Suresh Raina.

13: Wins for Mumbai Indians against Kolkata Knight Riders in 18 head-to-head encounters in IPL. It is the most for a team against a particular opposition in IPL. At Wankhede, Mumbai lead 5-1 after the last win.

13: T20s won by chasing sides at Wankhede in 2016 in 15 matches, including all of the last five.