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 a single position (#3) across all 9 IPL 2026 innings — a consistent slot. Window: IPL 2026 captured fixtures. Source: SETU canonical aggregate.
Position
Innings
Runs
Balls
SR
Avg
Outs
#3 · top order
9
225
149
151.0
25.00
9
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.
Dismissal modes · IPL 2026
P3 · Form & phase
How Nitish Rana was dismissed across 9 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
9
100%
"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.