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Stats: Umesh Yadav records his best bowling figures
Kolkata Knight Riders consolidated their fourth position in the points table with a comfortable seven-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in an IPL match in Hyderabad on Sunday night.
A look at key statistics from the match.
# Umesh Yadav (3/26) recorded his best bowling figures for Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL 2014.
# Yadav was adjudged the Man of the Match for the third time in the IPL.
# Yadav (49 wickets in 54 matches at an average of 31.08) is one short of reaching 50 wickets in the IPL.
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Yusuf Pathan emulates Gayle
# Yusuf Pathan (101) became the fifth player to reach a century of sixes, joining Chris Gayle (192), Rohit Sharma (121), Suresh Raina (121) and Yuvraj Singh (107).
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Uthappa first KKR batsman to amass 400 runs
# Robin Uthappa became the first batsman to post 40 or more in six innings in a row in the IPL. Matthew Hayden (2009), Virender Sehwag (2012) and Michael Hussey (2013) have achieved the distinction five times each.
# Uthappa became the first KKR batsman to aggregate 400 runs in the IPL 2014 - his aggregate being 422 (ave.38.36) in eleven innings.
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Narine completes 15 wickets
# Sunil Narine became the first Kolkata bowler to complete 15 wickets (ave.17.86) in the IPL 2014 in eleven matches.
# Narine's economy rate of 6.09 is the best in the IPL 2014 (minimum 10 wickets). The said economy rate is his worst in an IPL season.
# Shakib Al Hasan (2/22) has produced his best bowling figures for Kolkata in the IPL 2014.
# Kolkata have won two games and lost one out of three against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL - success per cent 66.66.
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Home, not an advantage for Sunrisers Hyderabad
# Sunrisers Hyderabad have lost all three IPL matches at home in the IPL 2014 - by seven wickets to Mumbai on May 12; by six wickets to Punjab on May 14 and by seven wickets to Kolkata on May 18.
# Amit Mishra has conceded 21 sixes in the IPL 2014. Both Piyush Chawla (inaugural IPL season) and Mishra share an unwanted feat of conceding most sixes in a single edition of the IPL.