13.03.2010
- Kolkata have registered their third win in five games over Hyderabad.
- Kolkata's 11-run win is their narrowest victory margin over Hyderabad in the Indian T20 Series, surpassing their 23-run win at Hyderabad on May 11, 2008.
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- Kolkata's triumph is their tenth in 27 matches in the Indian T20 Series. (Lost 16 and Tied 1) - winning % 38.88.
- Kolkata's 161 for four is their second highest against Hyderabad in the Indian T20 Series, next only to the 204 for four at Hyderabad on May 11, 2008.
- Kolkata's highest ever in the Indian T20 Series is 222 for three against Bangalore at Bangalore on April 18, 2008.
- Manoj Tiwary became the second player for Kolkata after Brendon McCullum to be dismissed off the first ball of a match.
- Tiwary has registered his second duck in the Indian T20 Series - his first was against Jaipur at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on May 30, 2008.
- Overall, he is the seventh batsman after Parthiv Patel, Gautam Gambhir, Jacques Kallis, Brendon McCullum. Badrinath and Sanath Jayasuriya to be dismissed off the first ball of an Indian T20 Series game.
- For the first time, the first ball of an Indian T20 Series competition has produced a wicket.
- Sourav Ganguly got his third duck in the Indian T20 Series - one each against Mumbai, Jaipur and Hyderabad.
- Ganguly has registered his second successive duck in the Indian T20 Series. In his previous innings against Jaipur at Kingsmead, Durban on May 20, 2009, he had recorded a third-ball duck.
- Ganguly averages just 22.41 in the Indian T20 Series - 538 in 27 matches, including three fifties.
- Angelo Davis Mathews (65 not out off 46 balls) has registered his career-best score in Twenty20 - his second fifty.
- Owais Shah (58 not out off 46 balls) has registered his 10th fifty in Twenty20.
- Matthews and Shah put on 130 (unbroken) for the fifth wicket - Kolkata's highest ever for any wicket in the Indian T20 Series.
- The stand is the highest fifth wicket partnership in the Indian T20 Series - the first century partnership for this wicket.
- Adam Gilchrist, with his 54, has taken his runs' tally to 985 at an average of 32.83 in 31 matches, including one century and seven fifties. He needs 15 runs to become the first batsman to aggregate 1,000 runs in the Indian T20 Series.
- Gilchrist, with three sixes, has become the first batsman to hit 50 sixes (51) in the Indian T20 Series.
- Gilchrist has recorded his 8th fifty (54 off 35 balls) in Twenty20.
- Gilchrist became the first player to post eight innings of fifty-plus in the Indian T20 Series - one century and seven fifties, eclipsing Matthew Hayden's tally of seven fifties.
- Gilchrist and Laxman added 61 for the first wicket -Hyderabad's second best for the first wicket against Kolkata, next only to the 68 between Gilchrist and Herschelle Gibbs at Johannesburg on May 16, 2009.
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