Here are some numbers that defined IPL 2015

By Wisden India

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19: Fours hit in a match by Bangalore’s AB de Villiers during his 133 in 59 balls vs Mumbai.

12: Sixes hit in a match by Bangalore’s Chris Gayle during his 117 in 57 balls against Punjab.

46: The number of balls Mumbai’s Rohit Sharma and Rajasthan’s Ajinkya Rahane took to reach their fifties. Gayle took the same deliveries to make his hundred versus Punjab.

19: The number of dot balls bowled by Delhi’s Zaheer Khan vs Chennai. That’s 79.17 per cent. In the remaining five balls he conceded just 9 runs (3 singles, 1 two, 1 four).

25: Most dot balls in a match (That’s nearly 21 per cent of total overs). Rajasthan’s AJINKYA RAHANE vs Hyderabad. Chennai’s BRENDON MCCULLUM vs Rajasthan. Mumbai’s LENDL SIMMONS vs Chennai. Bangalore’s CHRIS GAYLE vs Chennai.

38: The number of 6s hit by Gayle over 14 innings.

372.72: The batting strike rate of AB during his 41 against Mumbai. He faced 11 balls.

192.30: The batting strike rate of Kolkata’s Andre Russell in his 11 innings. In 169 balls, he scored 326 runs.

26: The most wickets taken in the tournament, by Chennai’s Dwayne Bravo in 17 games.

50: The number of fours conceded by Kolkata’s Umesh Yadav in his 42 overs in 12 games.

28: The number of 6s conceded by Bangalore’s Yuzvendra Chahal in his 46.5 overs, in 15 games.

5.85: The economy rate of Chennai’s R Ashwin in 39 overs (228 runs) in the tournament.

175: The number of dot balls delivered by Chennai’s Ashish Nehra in his 62 overs (372 balls) in 16 games.

7: The most number of sixes conceded by SRH’s Karn Sharma vs CSK in his four overs.

8: The most number of fours conceded by Bangalore’s Varun Aaron and and Hyderabad’s Trent Boult (both in the same match. Mumbai’s Hardik Pandya also conceded the same against Bangalore.

562: Most runs in the tournament, scored by Hyderabad’s David Warner in 14 innings.

26: The number of runs conceded by Ravindra Jadeja in a single over for Chennai vs Mumbai.