The second match of Friday's double header in Abu Dhabi will be a rematch of last season's Eliminator match. After a successful inaugural season, the Sunrisers will hope to enact some vengeance and start their sophomore season off with a crucial two points. After loading and cleansing historical Indian Premier Twenty20 data into SAP HANA we can very easily create insightful visualizations in SAP Lumira with an online connection to SAP HANA.
In their first meeting of the tournament on April 27, 2013 the Royals sent the Sawai Mansingh Stadium fans home elated when unbeaten Shane Watson hit the boundary for four in the 18th over to successfully eclipse the Sunrisers' 144 runs. Check out the match's Manhattan chart.
Watson had a tremendous match scoring 98 no out on 53 balls to earn his side a pair of crucial points. In addition to four sixes the Royal's Captain sent the ball to the boundary 13 times. With SAP Lumira we can quickly chart the ball by ball run production of Watson's indispensable innings.
On May 17th in Hyderabad the Sunrisers bowled brilliantly in the second innings to protect their 136 runs and defeat the Royals by 23 runs. With Lumira we can quickly chart the runs scored per over in a Manhattan chart.
The 68th match of the 6th Indian Premier tournament featured some stellar bowling with both sides taking nine wickets. Rajasthan's southpaw medium pace bowler, James Faulkner, took five wickets in the match, knocking over two wickets and inducing three catches. After intuitively creating a geographic hierarchy of the bowling team city in SAP Lumira we can quickly visualize a breakdown of how each team's nine wickets were taken on a map of the Indian subcontinent.
Both clubs finished the season with 20 points and squared off an Eliminator match at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi for the right to move on in the playoffs. With just one over left and nine runs off the pace, the Royals' Brad Hodge stuck successive sixes to send his side to the next round. Check out the Manhattan chart for the 2013 Eliminator match.
The heroic Hodge smacked five sixes in route to a 54 no out on 29 balls. With Lumira we can dive even deeper into Hodge's important innings to visualize what types of shots the Australian used to send his significant sixes over the boundary.
Can 18 combined wickets be taken again or will the desert heat facilitate a high scoring affair?
Keep your eyes peeled for more visualizations created in SAP Lumira using historical Indian Twenty20 data from SAP HANA. Please check back regularly during the season for more insights about the daily action.
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