LSG has now been officially eliminated from the playoff race. The Orange Army, SRH spoiled their party by hunting down 206 run target with 6 wickets in hand and having 1.4 overs left in match. With that, only two teams, MI and DC, are in contention for the fourth spot in the playoffs.
150 scalps
Harshal Patel completed 150 IPL wickets yesterday. He became the 13th bowler to achieve this feat in the IPL. He is the 9th Indian and the 5th fast bowler to cross 150 wickets. He also became the fastest to achieve this feat in terms of balls.
Fastest to reach 150 wickets in terms of balls :
- Harshal Patel – 2381 balls
- Lasith Malinga – 2444 balls
- Yuzvendra Chahal – 2543 balls
- Dwayne Bravo – 2656 balls
- Jasprit Bumrah – 2832 balls
- Rashid Khan – 2863 balls
- Amit Mishra – 2928 balls
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 3093 balls
- Sunil Narine – 3331 balls
- Harbhajan Singh – 3349 balls
- Ravindra Jadeja – 3514 balls
- Ravichandran Ashwin – 3678 balls
He stands in the second place in terms of matches. Least matches taken to pick 150 wickets in IPL :
- Lasith Malinga – 105 matches
- Harshal Patel – 117 matches
- Yuzvendra Chahal – 118 matches
- Rashid Khan – 122 matches
- Jasprit Bumrah – 124 matches
Highest chase at Ekana stadium
SRH became the first team to chase 200-plus score at the Ekana stadium. RR chased 197 against LSG in the 2024 was the previous highest chase at this venue.
Top run chases at Ekana stadium :
- SRH – 206/4 vs LSG ( 2025 )
- RR – 199/3 vs LSG ( 2024 )
- LSG – 180/2 vs CSK ( 2024 )
- PBKS – 177/2 vs LSG ( 2025 )
Lowest Average by a captain
LSG Captain Rishabh Pant has scored just 135 runs in 12 innings with an average of just 12.27. Pant scored a mere 7 runs in 6 balls against SRH. This is the least average by an Indian Captain in a season and overall second least after Eoin Morgan.
Least averages by a captain in a season :
- Eoin Morgan – 11.08 ( 2021 )
- Rishabh Pant – 12.27 ( 2025 )
- MS Dhoni – 16.28 ( 2021 )
- Mayank Agarwal – 16.33 ( 2022 )
- Sourav Ganguly – 17.86 ( 2012 )
- Hardik Pandya – 18.00 ( 2024 )
Interestingly, Eoin Morgan and MS Dhoni took their teams to the finals in 2021.
Rishabh created another unwanted record of lowest average by a wicket keeper in an IPL season :
- Rishabh Pant – 12.27 ( 2025 )
- Naman Ojha – 12.30 ( 2011 )
- Dinesh Karthik – 12.72 ( 2023 )
- Dinesh Karthik – 12.81 ( 2023 )
- Naman Ojha – 13.60 ( 2016 )
Destructive knock
Abhishek Sharma scored 59 runs off 20 ball with a strike rate of 295. This is the 4th time, he has scored a half-century with more than 250 strike rate. He equaled Nicholos Pooran and Keiron Pollard’s record of most fifties with 250-plus strike rate.
Most half-centuries with 250-plus strike rate :
- Abhishek Sharma – 4
- Kieron Pollard – 4
- Nicholos Pooran – 4
- Travis Head – 3
- Jake Fraser McGurk – 3
- AB de Villiers – 3
- Ishan Kishan – 2
- David Miller – 2
- Andre Russell – 2
- Sunil Narine – 2
- Hardik Pandya – 2
- Yusuf Pathan – 2
Also Read: LSG vs SRH : Reasons For LSG’s Defeat Against SRH