14.03.2010
- Kolkata's seven-wicket triumph is the biggest so far in the third edition of the Indian T20 Series.
- Kolkata have equalled their biggest victory in terms of wickets in the Indian T20 Series. They had defeated Chennai by seven wickets at Centurion on May 18, 2009.
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- Kolkata have recorded their third win over Bangalore in five Indian Premier League games, enjoying success % of 60.00.
- Angelo Mathews (4/19) has become the first bowler to claim four wickets in an innings in the third edition of the Indian T20 Series.
- Apart from Mathews, no other bowler has captured even three wickets in the first four games of the third edition.
- Mathews has recorded his best bowling figures in Twenty20.
- Mathews' bowling figures are bettered only by Shoaib Akhtar for Kolkata in the Indian T20 Series - 4 for 11 against Delhi at Kolkata on May 13, 2008.
- Manoj Tiwary's first half-century (50 off 29 balls) for Kolkata in the Indian T20 Series is his fourth in Twenty20.
- Brad Hodge (50 off 45 balls) has registered his 19th fifty in Twenty20 - his fourth in the Indian T20 Series.
- Manish Pandey has posted his third duck in Twenty20 in 19 innings.
- Jacques Kallis' unbeaten 65 off 52 balls is his tenth fifty in Twenty20 - his fifth in the Indian T20 Series.
- Tiwary and Hodge were associated in an opening stand of 101 - Kolkata's best ever for the first wicket in the Indian T20 Series, obliterating the 61 between Sourav Ganguly and Brendon McCullum against Bangalore at Bangalore on April 18, 2008.
- Hodge has achieved a rare feat in Twenty20. He is the first player to post 20 innings of 50-plus in Twenty20 - 19 fifties + 1 century.
- Hodge's runs' tally of 2610 (ave.38.38) in 82 matches is the best in Twenty20.
- Both the openers - Hodge and Tiwary - have made exactly 50 in the same innings in the Indian T20 Series. The instance is the seventh when both the openers have recorded fifties in the Indian T20 Series.
- Tiwary has received his first MoM award in the Indian T20 Series.
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