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 3 distinct positions (#3 to #5). 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
#3 · top order
6
152
82
185.4
25.33
6
#4 · middle
3
19
29
65.5
6.33
3
#5 · middle
5
63
73
86.3
12.60
5
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 Nicholas Pooran was dismissed across 15 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
8
53%
Bowled
4
27%
Run-out
2
13%
"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.