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The final of IPL 2019 was a fitting end after the drama and excitement the tournament churned out right from the beginning. Two familiar finalists, Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, squared off in the final in Hyderabad and in the end, Mumbai won the battle of nerves to win the title by one run.
Throughout the IPL season we were reminded that cricket is a game of numbers, with the record books being rewritten several times. So without further ado, here are 11 all-time records that were broken during the course of the season.
#11 Highest opening partnership - Jonny Bairstow and David Warner (185 runs)
The pair of Jonny Bairstow and David Warner scored a combined total of 1137 runs for the Sunrisers Hyderabad this season. The best performance from the duo came against Royal Challengers Bangalore at Hyderabad, when both players scored a century.
Warner and Bairstow put on 185 runs for the first wicket. In the process they surpassed the previous highest opening partnership in IPL history which was held by Gautam Gambhir and Chris Lynn for Kolkata Knight Riders, who scored an unbeaten 184 against Gujarat Lions in 2017. The KKR pair couldn't add more runs as they chased down the target of 184 with 31 balls left to play.
In the all-time IPL highest partnership list, Warner and Bairstow’s partnership is ranked sixth. This was also the first time two openers scored centuries in the same innings in an IPL match.
#10 Most 50-plus scores against a single opponent - David Warner (10)
David Warner played 12 innings for Sunrisers this season and staggeringly, scored one century and eight fifties. Two of his half-centuries this season came against Kings XI Punjab and now, he has eight consecutive fifties against them.
The Aussie has scored 10 fifties against the Kings XI in his IPL career, and no player has scored more fifties against a single opposition in IPL history. This season Warner also extended his lead at the top of the table for most IPL fifties; he now has 44 fifties, which is six more than what Suresh Raina in second place has.
#9 Youngest player to score a half-century - Riyan Parag (17 years and 175 days)
Riyan Parag was one of the youngsters who caught the eye during IPL 2019. He made his IPL debut against CSK on April 11 and made history on May 4th when he scored 50 runs off 49 balls against Delhi Capitals.
Parag’s fifty made him the youngest player to score one in IPL history. He broke the record of his teammate, Sanju Samson, who scored his maiden IPL fifty when he was 18 years and 169 days old in 2013.
#8 Youngest debutant in IPL - Prayas Ray Barman (16 years and 157 days)
On March 31, Royal Challengers Bangalore gave Bengal’s Prayas Ray Barman his IPL debut against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
The leg-spinner became the youngest debutant in IPL history at the age of 16 years and 157 days. He broke the record of Afghanistan’s spinner Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, who made his debut for Kings XI Punjab in 2018 at the age of 17 years and 11 days.
#7 Youngest bowler to take a hat-trick in the IPL - Sam Curran (20 years and 302 days)
There were some spectacular batting collapses this season but perhaps the biggest was when Delhi Capitals went from 144/3 with 21 balls left to play to 152 all out, while chasing 167.
In that game, Sam Curran took the first hat-trick of the season aged 20 years and 302 days, becoming the youngest player in IPL history to do so. The previous record belonged to Rohit Sharma who took a hat-trick for Deccan Chargers against Mumbai Indians in 2009 at the age of 22.
Interestingly, Curran later revealed he did not realize that he had taken a hat-trick as the first of his three scalps came at the end of the 18th over and the next two wickets were taken in the first two balls of the 20th over.
#6 Best bowling average - Kagiso Rabada (17.93)
Kagiso Rabada had a fantastic IPL season to say the least. He picked up 25 wickets in 12 games with a bowling average of 14.72 to finish second in the Purple Cap list.
After this season, Rabad has 31 wickets in 18 IPL matches with an overall bowling average of 17.93.
Among all bowlers with at least 10 wickets in the IPL, Rabada has the best bowling average. The next best is 18.72 by Doug Bollinger, who took 37 wickets in 27 games.
#5 Most fours by a batsman - Shikhar Dhawan (524)
Shikhar Dhawan is the fifth highest run scorer in IPL history with 4579 runs to his name, and he has scored 45.77% of his runs through fours alone.
Dhawan hit 64 fours this season and broke Gautam Gambhir’s record of 491 fours. Now, the Delhi Capitals man has 524 fours to his name.
Gambhir’s tally was also surpassed by Suresh Raina this season; the CSK man has 493 fours to his name.
#4 Most wickets in a season by a spinner in an IPL season - Imran Tahir (26)
In the final against Mumbai Indians, Imran Tahir picked up two wickets to win this edition’s Purple Cap with 26 wickets. While his 26th wicket took him one ahead of Kagiso Rabada in the race for this season's Purple Cap, his 25th wicket made him an IPL record holder.
Tahir is now the spinner with the highest number of wickets in an IPL season. The previous record was jointly held by Harbhajan Singh and Sunil Narine who took 24 wickets each in 2013 and 2012 respectively.
#3 Most sixes in an IPL season - 784
IPL 2019 was a run feast, and out of the 18,753 runs that were scored throughout the tournament, 4704 runs were struck through sixes. A total of 784 sixes were scored this season, which is the most in any edition and broke the previous best of 769 sixes that were scored a year ago.
Unsurprisingly, Andre Russell with 52 maximums was the player with the most sixes this season. Because of Russell, Kolkata Knight Riders scored 143 sixes this season, which was 28 more than any other team.
#2 Best bowling figures in an innings - Alzarri Joseph (6/12)
Alzarri Joseph made his IPL debut this season for Mumbai Indians against Sunrisers Hyderabad on April 6. And the 22-year-old West Indian ensured that it was an unforgettable one, and also one for the record books.
Joseph picked up six wickets on his debut and conceded only 12 runs. Thus, he broke Sohail Tanveer’s record from 2008 when he picked up 6/14 against CSK.
Impressively, one of Joseph’s scalps was the Orange Cap winner of the season, David Warner.
No player has picked up more than six wickets in an innings throughout the history of T20 cricket. But because of the number of runs conceded, Joseph’s bowling figures rank eighth in the all-time list.
#1 Most IPL titles - Mumbai Indians (4)
Once Chennai Super Kings beat Delhi Capitals in the second qualifier and set up yet another final against Mumbai Indians, another IPL record was destined to be broken irrespective of who won the final.
Before the final, Mumbai and Chennai had three titles each. As a result, the winner of the 2019 final would automatically become the most successful team in IPL history.
In a nervy and topsy-turvy final, it looked like CSK were on their way to victory after the 19th over. But a brilliant final over from Lasith Malinga and the careless run-out of Shane Watson in the fourth ball of the same over gave Mumbai a win by just one run.
Not only was this Mumbai’s fourth title overall, but this was also the second time Mumbai won an IPL final by one run. The first instance came in 2017, when they beat Rising Pune Supergiant.
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