215 Target Gujarat Titans (GT) chased down against Rajasthan Royals (RR) is their highest successful chase in the IPL, bettering the 204 chased against Delhi Capitals (DC) last year.
1 GT's chase is also the highest by any team in a playoff (or knockout) game in the IPL. The previous highest was 204 by Punjab Kings (PBKS) against Mumbai Indians (MI) in Qualifier 2 last year.
It is also the second-highest successful target chase by any team in a playoff (or knockout) match in T20 cricket, only behind Mumbai's target chase of 222 against Vidarbha in the quarter-final of the SMAT 2024-25.
1 Shubman Gill became the first batter to score multiple hundreds in the IPL playoff (or knockout) matches. His first such ton was the 129 he scored against MI in Qualifier 2 in 2023.
Gill is also the first captain to score a hundred in an IPL playoff (or knockout). The previous highest was 93* by David Warner against Gujarat Lions in 2016 and Rajat Patidar against GT in IPL 2026's Qualifier 1.
11 Partnerships of 100-plus runs between Gill and B Sai Sudharsan in the IPL, the most by any pair. Their 11 century stands are also the most by any pair in T20 cricket. They have shared eight century stands for the opening wicket, which is the joint-most by any pair.
167 Partnership between Gill and Sai Sudharsan is the highest by any pair in IPL playoffs (or knockouts). The previous highest was 159 between Michael Hussey and M Vijay for the opening wicket against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in the 2011 final.
440 Number of balls Vaibhav Sooryavanshi took to complete 1000 runs in the IPL, the quickest to the milestone in terms of balls faced. Andre Russell was the previous fastest, having faced 545 balls for that.
Sooryavanshi is the joint-second-fastest batter in terms of innings taken for 1000 IPL runs. Shaun Marsh got there in only 21 innings, while Lendl Simmons took 23, the same as Sooryavanshi.
135 Total boundaries hit by Sooryavanshi in IPL 2026, including a record 72 sixes, the most by any batter in a T20 tournament. The previous most were 128 by Buttler during IPL 2022, who hit 83 fours and 45 sixes.
3 Number of dismissals in the 90s for Sooryavanshi in his last four innings. He now has the joint-most dismissals in the 90s in the IPL and is only the second batter with three such innings within a season, after Glenn Maxwell in 2014.
776 Runs scored by Sooryavanshi in IPL 2026, the fifth-most by any batter in an edition of the tournament. It is also the second-most by any batter for RR, behind Jos Buttler's 863 runs in 2022.
Sooryavanshi scored 193 of those in the Eliminator and Qualifier 2. Only Buttler, with 195 runs in 2022, scored more in an edition of the IPL across Qualifiers and Eliminator.
3 Batters to complete 700 in IPL 2026 on Friday - Sooryavanshi, Gill and Sai Sudharsan. IPL 2026 has now become the first T20 tournament in which three batters have scored 700 or more runs.
Gill had previously scored 700-plus runs in 2023, while Sai Sudharsan did the same in 2025. Chris Gayle (IPL 2012 & IPL 2013) and Kohli (IPL 2016 & IPL 2024) are the only other batters to have multiple such tournaments.
9 Fifty-plus scores for Sai Sudharsan in IPL 2026, the joint-second-most by a batter in an edition. Virat Kohli had 11 of them in 2016, while Warner had nine apiece in 2016 and 2019.
3 Number of times Sai Sudharsan has been dismissed hit-wicket in the IPL, including twice in this year's playoffs. No other batter has been dismissed hit-wicket more than once in the IPL. In all men's T20s only Andre Russell and Shoaib Malik have three such dismissals apiece.