IPL 2023: THROUGH THE LENS OF STATISTICS
Author: Gautam Sodani The IPL 2023 season has been quite a thrilling ride, packed with excitement and surprises. Although there were no super-over contests throughout the two-month journey spanning 74 matches, but the batting skills displayed by all ten teams and the impressive six-hitting abilities of the players (specially Rinku Singh) made this edition of the IPL truly exceptional. It's worth mentioning that out of the 146 innings played (excluding LSG v/s CSK abandoned match), there were an impressive 37 instances where teams scored more than 200 runs. A total of 12 centuries were being scored by nine players (most by Shubhman Gill) and 141 half-centuries by a set of 59 players (most by Faf Du Plessis). The average score in the first innings for all teams in the IPL was 183 runs. However, when excluding matches played on the slower pitches of Lucknow and Chennai, the average score in the first innings increased to 189 runs in the 58 matches held across 10 different grounds in...