IPL 2008 Statistics and Analysis- Highest Scores & Top Scorers

IPL 2008 was unfairly loaded towards batsmen and thus it becomes obvious that there were some of the great batting performances and match winning scores. Mining the Statistics for previous year’s IPL, I obtained some interesting figures as below. To start off with the routine stuff, while Shaun Marsh topped the list of top scoring batsmen followed closely by Gautam Gambhir, Brendon Mc Cullum Topped the list of highest scores in an innings. But you will definitely be interested in knowing who took the heat of all these batsmen. Well then there are some details on that too.

Following is the bar chart representing the Top Scorers of the IPL 2008 tournament:

Now you will definitely be interested to know that from which team the top scorers came from! Well bellow is the distribution of top 50 scorers in the tournament and the team the belonged to. The Blue bars represent the statistics of distribution of top 50 players scores wise. The red bars include the no of top ten players that came from each team. For example, 3 of the top ten scorers were from Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2008.

Below is the list of Highest score in an innings and the top ten highest scores.The blue bars indicate the top scores and the red bars indicate the number of balls taken to achieve the same

Now let us check against which teams were the maximum no of highest scores hit. Here, the cones show the number of highest scores hit against each team. For example, against Kings XI Punjab, tean of top fifty highest scores were hit, followed by Deccan Chargers taking the maximum heat.