Sample-size floor: ≥5 deliveries per matchup. Window: IPL 2026 captured fixtures. Sorted by delivery count. Each row links to the full match-by-match record at /h2h.
Source: CricketStudio aggregation of CricketMind ball-by-ball data. Cohort: IPL 2026 captured fixtures. Sub-5-delivery matchups excluded per doctrine §3.1.
Batting positions · IPL 2026
P3 · Form & phase
Batted at 4 distinct positions (#5 to #8). Per-position runs and SR below show how the slot affected output. Window: IPL 2026 captured fixtures. Source: SETU canonical aggregate.
Position
Innings
Runs
Balls
SR
Avg
Outs
#5 · middle
1
25
15
166.7
—
0
#6 · middle
1
18
11
163.6
—
0
#7 · lower middle
4
95
53
179.3
31.67
3
#8 · lower middle
2
33
15
220.0
16.50
2
Source: SETU canonical aggregate (lib/setu/season-stats.ts). Position derived from the order each batter first appears on-creeze in the innings ball stream. Cross-reference: batting-order shuffles leaderboard.
Dismissal modes · IPL 2026
P3 · Form & phase
How Ashutosh Sharma was dismissed across 5 IPL 2026 wickets. Derived from each wicket-ball's score_id + catchstump_id + runout_by_id. Source: SETU canonical aggregate.
Mode
Count
% of dismissals
Caught
4
80%
Run-out
1
20%
"Caught" lumps stumpings — the upstream live-feed score type doesn't reliably separate the two (per §10.151co). Dropped catches are NOT counted — commentary-text-only in the upstream feed, doctrine §3.3. Cross-reference: season dismissal-mode leaderboards.