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What is Psychology

Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviors. Psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases, and by many accounts it ultimately aims to benefit society. In this field, a professional practitioner or researcher is called a psychologist and can be classified as a social, behavioral, or cognitive scientist. Psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior, while also exploring the physiological and neurobiological processes that underlie certain cognitive functions and behaviors.

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Facts About Human Psychology

1. When a person laughs too much, even at stupid things, he is lonely deep inside.

2. If a person sleeps a lot, he is sad.

3. If a person speaks less, but speaks fast, he keeps secrets.

4. If someone can’t cry, he is weak.

5. If someone eats in an abnormal manner, he is tense.

6. If someone cries on little things, he is innocent & soft-hearted.

7. If someone becomes angry over silly or petty (small) things, it means he needs love

8. Sometimes people push others away simply because they want those people to pull them closer.

9. Unhappy people tend to watch more TV than those who are pleased & happy with their lives.

10. If you are the 1st born among your siblings. You are more likely to desire control over others.

11. A psychological study found that women are more attracted to men who barely show interest in them.

12. A psychological study found that comparing yourself to others can instantly trigger sadness, causing you to feel less than.

13. People who are generally “too nice” are also the ones to get hurt the most.

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14. When you’re single, all you see are happy couples. And when you’re committed, all you see are happy singles.

15. Based on a psychological study, a crush only lasts for a maximum of 4 months. If it exceeds, you’re already in love.

16. When you can’t stop thinking of someone, it’s more likely because they’re thinking about you as well.

17. Psychological studies suggest that pretending not to miss someone tricks the mind into missing that person even more.

18. The presence of beautiful women ignite stupid behavior in men.

19. Personality psychology suggests that 3-5 years old girls’ and boys’ first crushes are their father and mother respectively.

20. Psychologists discovered that knowing something is about to end makes us enjoy it all the more. ( End of the World ~2012)

21. The psychological test results show symptoms of being in love very similar to severe OCD- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

22. We are psychologically wired to crave tiny gadgets – we’ve been this way since we were cavemen.

23. Psychological, disappointment can change a person’s outlook on relationships causing them push others away when they get to close.

24. Psychologists have proven that we tend to over-estimate ourselves. We are not as nice as we think we are.

25. Psychology claims that if two past lovers can remain just friends, its either they are still in love, or never were.

26. When we sleep while hugging one pillow, we actually wish it to be the person we miss and love the most.

27. If a person laughs too much, even at stupid things, he is lonely deep inside.
28. If a person sleeps a lot, heis sad.
29. If a person speaks less, but speaks fast, he keeps secrets.
30. If some 1 can’t cry, he is weak.
31. If some 1 eats in an abnormal manner, he istense.
32. If some 1 cries on little things, he is innocent & soft-hearted.
33. If some 1 becomes angry over silly or petty (small) things, it means he needs love.
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Why Avoid ToothPaste | Facts About ToothPaste | Alternatives

Toothpaste Ingredients

Do you really think your toothpaste is producing gem out of your teeth ? The ingredients of your toothpaste, are everyday product used in making of soaps and shampoos to obtain foam out of them.

A list of ingredients inside a tube of toothpaste includes chemicals, abrasives, additives, detergents and sweeteners. READ MORE >>

Some Dangerous Ingredients

1. Propylene Glycol: It is a solvent used as an active component of some anti-freezes, toothpaste, processed foods, cosmetics, and is used in everything from makeup to mouthwash. It can cause skin irritation further leading to kidney damage, liver abnormalities, nausea, headache, vomiting, central nervous system depression, rashes and dry skin.

2. Triclosan: It is also found in anti-microbial hand soaps. If it comes in contact with the chlorine and water, it produces chloroform, which leads to cancer.

3. Fluoride: It is used to strengthen enamel. Fluoride is considered toxic when ingested in high levels and is a controversial additive in water. It is a carcinogenic in nature and large doses can cause muscular weakness, clonic convulsions, paralysis and cardiac failure.

4. Sodium Lauryl Sulfate: It is a cleansing agent, commonly found in toothpaste, shampoos and soaps for making foam. Sodium lauryl sulfate can be made from natural ingredients, like coconut oil or palm kernel oil. It is a strong detergent known to cause eye irritation, skin rashes, hair loss, flaky skin and mouth ulcers (microscopic tears in mouths, also known as canker sores).

5. Fluorosilicic acid: It is used as a substitute for sodium fluoride in toothpaste. It is a toxic waste product from the manufacturing of phosphate fertilizers. 

Some Natural Alternatives

1. Brush your teeth with salt. Apply salt on the toothbrush instead of any commercial toothpaste.

2. Strawberries contain malic acid, which acts as a whitening agent by dissolving surface stains. Make a paste of strawberry in a small bowl and mix with 1/2 teaspoon baking soda. Spread on teeth and leave for 5 minutes. Brush with toothpaste immediately after it.

3. Eat these fruits and vegetables like apples, celery or carrots etc. These help in removal of deposits on the teeth because they increase saliva in a mouth.

4. Brushing your teeth daily for one minute will give quick results.

5. Tea, coffee, red wine, all red fruits: blueberry, cherry, blackberry … alter the brightness of your teeth. To prevent stains settle down, brush your teeth or rinse mouth properly soon after eating.

6. Mix baking soda into your regular toothpaste and brush your teeth with this mixture.

7. Use lemon juice to brush your teeth.

8. Hydrogen peroxide is an effective chemical used to whiten teeth.

9. Take a hard paper foil and fold it in shape of teeth. Apply little toothpaste and baking soda and mix together really well. Put some of the mixture onto the foil and place it on your teeth. Leave on for one-hour everyday.

10. Make a paste of coconut oil (3tbsp), Bicarb soda (3tbsp), 10 drops peppermint essential oil, 10 drops spearmint essential oil, 2 natvia (stevia) satchets, ground cloves (¼tbsp).

11. Use Neem branches (datun), instead of toothbrush, best alternative

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What is 2PDA | PushDown Automata | PDF Download

What is PDA

In computer science, a pushdown automaton (PDA) is a type of automaton that employs a stack.

The PDA is used in theories about what can be computed by machines. It is more capable than a finite-state machine but less capable than a Turing machine. Because its input can be described with a formal grammar, it can be used in parser design. The deterministic pushdown automaton can handle all deterministic context-free languages while the non-deterministic version can handle all context-free languages.

The term “pushdown” refers to the fact that the stack can be regarded as being “pushed down” like a tray dispenser at a cafeteria, since the operations never work on elements other than the top element. A stack automaton, by contrast, does allow access to and operations on deeper elements. Stack automata can recognize a strictly larger set of languages than deterministic pushdown automata.[citation needed] A nested stack automaton allows full access, and also allows stacked values to be entire sub-stacks rather than just single finite symbols.
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What is 2PDA

Formal Definition of Two-Stack Push Down Automaton
is two-stack pushdown automaton to be a sextuple
M = (K, Σ, Γ, Δ, s, F)
K is a finite set of states,
Σ is an alphabet (the input symbols),
Γ is an alphabet (the stack symbols),
s belongs to K is the initial state,
F is subset of K is the set of final states, and
Δ, the transition relation, is a finite subset of (K x (Σ U {e}) x Γ* x Γ*) x (K x Γ* x Γ*), where the third parameter pops the first stack, the fourth parameter pops the second stack, the fifth parameter pushes a symbol onto the first stack, and the sixth parameter pushes a symbol onto the second stack.

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Relation of Two-Stack PDA to Chomsky Hierarchy

In order to discuss where a two-stack PDA falls into the Chomsky Hierarchy, it is important to first explore its relation to a Turing Machine. Every two-stack PDA can be represented by a Turing Machine. To see this divide the Turing Machine’s tape into three areas, the first area corresponds to the input string of the PDA, the second area corresponds to the first stack’s contents, and the third area corresponds to the second stack’s contents.

A push to the first or second stack is accomplished by the Turing Machine instruction that inserts the symbol being pushed to the cell that represents the top of the stack in the appropriate region.

A pop to the first or second stack is accomplished by the Turing Machine instruction that reads the cell corresponding to the top of the stack in the appropriate region and then deletes that symbol, making sure to shift left all the cells that follow it.

A reading of the input string in the two-stack PDA is accomplished by the Turing Machine instruction that reads the symbol at a cell on the Turing Machine’s region of the tape that represents the input string of the PDA and then overwriting it with a ‘b’ (the blank symbol).

Thus using this algorithm, every two-stack PDA can be converted into a Turing Machine. There also exists an algorithm to convert every Turing Machine into a two-stack PDA. The two stacks are used to represent what is before and after the read head on the Turing Machine’s tape. When the Turing Machine’s head moves to the left or right, the two-stack PDA shifts symbols from the first stack to the second stack and vice versa. Thus every Turing Machine can be represented by a two-stack PDA. Since every Turing Machine can be represented by a two-stack PDA and every two-stack PDA can be represented by a Turing Machine, the two are equal.

From the fact that two-stack PDA’s are essentially Turing Machines, it falls into the same place on the Chomsky hierarchy as Turing Machines. That means it can solve all problems that are solvable by a Turing Machine. From the Church-Turing thesis, we know that each Turing Machine is essentially an algorithm. Since every two-stack PDA is essentially a Turing Machine, it must be an algorithm also. Also, we know that a non-deterministic two-stack PDA is no more powerful than a deterministic PDA, because non-deterministic Turing Machines are no more powerful than deterministic Turing Machines. They may be able to calculate something more efficiently, but they are not more powerful.

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Review and Delete Facebook Pending Requests | 7 Step Guide

Facebook the most popular , loveable social network of all age groups sometimes block it’s users to send friend requests. This happens in case you already have sent number of friend requests which are still not responded. This is actually done to avoid misuse of the facebook considering them as spam like activities.Upon that as you probably know, Facebook removed the feature that showed your pending friend requests in your Friends List.

But it’s important to remove old “FB” requests because a large backlog of pending requests will prevent you from adding more friends. So what to do , no need to worry as here is the simplified step by step guide to delete the facebook pending requests and enabling the add friend feature :-

1. Browse the link FACEBOOK PENDING REQUEST APP and install this facebook application by clicking on GOTO APP as shown below :-


INSTALLATION SCREENSHOT

2. After that it will take you to main page of application as displayed below , where you can check a future pending reauest or all past pending friend requests with “BULK LOAD” option.



PENDING REQUESTS MAIN PAGE

3. It will search & displays “My Pending Requests”

4. View each profile by clicking on it’s name. (don’t click on “Remove Request” on the right, it will not work)

5. When the profile loads click on left side bottom “cancel friend request”.

For those who are blocked for sending or receiving friend requests (Pink Box Warning):

6. IMPORTANT: Wait for a day or two after removing all the “pending requests”. In between don’t try to send any request.

7. Then you will be able to send friend requests.

I can’t stress step 6 enough. Be patient, the server has to update your ‘pending’ list for the request block (Pink Box of Death) to go away. After you get your pending list down to under 100, you should be able to invite 20 or 25 people a day.

Hope that helps & don’t forget to connect with us on FACEBOOK and TWITTER.

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Who is Rajnikant | Rajnikant Facts & Jokes | Rajni One-liners

RajniKant Background

Rajinikanth (born 12 December 1950 as Shivaji Rao Gaikwad) is an Indian film actor, media personality, and cultural icon. He made his debut as an actor in the National Film Award–winning Tamil film Apoorva Raagangal (1975), directed by K. Balachander, whom the actor considers his mentor.

After a brief phase of portraying antagonistic characters in Tamil films, he gradually rose to become an established film actor. He continues to hold a matinee idol status in the popular culture of India. His mannerisms and stylised delivery of dialogue in films contribute to his mass popularity and appeal. After being paid INR26 crore (US$4.8 million) for his role in Sivaji (2007), he became the highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan.

Rajinikanth has worked in over 150 films across various film industries of India. He has won six Tamil Nadu State Film Awards—four Best Actor Awards and two Special Awards for Best Actor—and a Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award. He was bestowed the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honour in 2000. Other than acting, Rajinikanth has also worked as a producer and screenwriter.
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Film Career

Rajnikanth is a famous actor. He holds a massive fan following because of his stylish gestures, expressions and exceptional dialogs. He is also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, India’s 3rd highest civilian honor, for his great contribution to Indian cinema. He was declared as one of the most influential persons in South Asia by Asiaweek. Some facts about Rajnikant from his films:

1. Rajnikant has a Brain Tumor which, according to the doctors can’t be cured and his death is imminent. In one of the fights, our great Rajnikant is shot in the head. To everybody’s surprise, the bullet passes through his ears taking away the tumor along with it and he is cured! Long Live Rajnikant!

2. In another movie, Rajnikant is confronted with 3 gangsters. Rajnikant has a gun but unfortunately only one bullet and a knife. He throws the knife at the middle gangster & shoots the bullet towards the knife. The knife cuts the bullet into 2 pieces, which kills both the gangsters on each side of the middle gangster & the knife kills the middle one.

Famous one-liners (JOKES) on RajniKant

1. Rajinikanth killed the Dead Sea.

2. When Rajinikanth does push-ups, he isn’t lifting himself up. …He is pushing the earth down.

3. There is no such thing as evolution, it’s just a list of creatures that Rajinikanth allowed to live.

4. Rajinikanth gave Mona Lisa that smile.

5 .Rajnikanth can divide by zero.

6. Rajinikanth can judge a book by it’s cover.

7. Rajinikanth can drown a fish.

8. Rajinikanth can delete the Recycle Bin.

9. Rajinikanth once got into a fight with a VCR player. Now it plays DVDs.

10. Rajinikanth can slam a revolving door.

11. Rajinikanth once kicked a horse in the chin. Its descendants are today called giraffes.

12. Rajinikanth once ordered a plate of idli in McDonald’s, and got it.

13. Rajinikanth can win at Solitaire with only 18 cards.

14. The Bermuda Triangle used to be the Bermuda Square, until Rajinikanth kicked one of the corners off.

15. Rajinikanth can build a snowman out of rain.

16. Rajinikanth can strangle you with a cordless phone.

17. Rajinikanth can make onions cry.

18. Rajinikanth destroyed the periodic table, because he only recognizes the element of surprise.

19. Rajinikanth can watch the show 60 minutes in 20 minutes.

20. Rajinikanth has counted to infinity, twice.

21. Rajinikanth will attain separate statehood in 2013.

22. Rajinikanth did in fact, build Rome in a day.

23. Rajinikanth once got into a knife-fight. The knife lost.

24. Rajinikanth can play the violin with a piano.

25. Rajinikanth never wet his bed as a child. The bed wet itself in fear.

26. The only man who ever outsmarted Rajinikanth was Stephen Hawking, and he got what he deserved.

27. Rajanikanth can do a wheelie on a unicycle.

28. Rajinikanth doesn’t breathe. Air hides in his lungs for protection.

29. There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Rajinikanth lives in Chennai.

30. Rajinikanth kills Harry Potter in the eighth book.

31. If you spell Rajanikanth wrong on Google it doesn’t say, “Did you mean Rajanikanth?” It simply replies, “Run while you still have the chance.”

32. Rajinikanth has already been to Mars, that’s why there are no signs of life there.

33. Rajinikanth doesn’t move at the speed of light. Light moves at the speed of Rajinikanth.

34. Rajinikanth knows Victoria’s secret.

35. Water boils faster when Rajinikanth stares at it.

36. Rajanikanth was once on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and was the first to spin. The next 29 minutes of the show consisted of everyone standing around awkwardly, waiting for the wheel to stop.

37. Rajinikanth kills two stones with one bird.

38. Google won’t find Rajinikanth because you don’t find Rajinikanth; Rajinikanth finds you.

39. Rajinikanth gave the Joker those scars.

40. Rajinikanth leaves messages before the beep.

41. Rajinikanth once warned a young girl to be good “or else”. The result? Mother Teresa.
42. Rajinikant electrocuted Iron Man.

43. Rajinikanth killed Spiderman using Baygon Anti Bug Spray.

44. Rajinikanth can make PCs better than the Mac.

45. Rajinikanth puts the ‘laughter’ in manslaughter.

46. Rajinikanth goes to court and sentences the judge.

47. Rajinikanth can handle the truth.

48. Rajinikanth can speak Braille.

49. Bullets dodge Rajanikanth.

50. Rajinikanth can teach an old dog new tricks. 

51. Rajinikanth calls Voldemort by his name.

52. The last digit of pi is Rajanikanth. He is the end of all things.

53. When Rajanikanth enters a room, he doesn’t turn the lights on,……… …. he turns the dark off.

54. Ghosts are actually caused by Rajanikanth killing people faster than Death can process them.

55. Rajinikanth’s calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd, no one fools Rajanikanth.

56. Rajinikanth grinds his coffee with his teeth and boils the water with his own rage.

57. The last time Rajinikanth killed someone, he slapped himself to do it. The other guy just disintegrated. Resonance.

58. Rajinikanth once had a heart attack. His heart lost.

59. Rajinikant is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.

60. Rajinikanth can run at speed of light around a tree and screw himself.

61.Rajinikant can lick his elbows.

62. Rajinikant once ate an entire bottle of sleeping pills. They made him blink.

63. Rajinikant does not get frostbite. Rajnikant bites frost.

64. Rajinikant doesn’t wear a watch. He decides what time it is.

65. Rajinikant got his drivers license at the age of 16 seconds.

66. When you say “no one is perfect”, Rajinikant takes this as a personal insult.

67. In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Rajinikanth could use to kill you, including the room itself.

68. Words like awesomeness, brilliance, legendary etc. were added to the dictionary in the year 1949. That was the year Rajinikanth was born.

69. The statement “nobody can cheat death”, is a personal insult to Rajnikanth. Rajni cheats and fools death everyday.

70. When Rajnikanth is asked to kill some one he doesn’t know, he shoots the bullet and directs it the day he finds out.

71. Rajinikant can give pain to Painkillers and headache to Anacin.

72. Rajinikanth knows what women really want.

73. Time and tide wait for Rajinikanth.

74. Rajinikanth sneezed only once in his entire life, that’s when the tsunami occurred in the Indian ocean.

75. Rajnikanth taught Voldemort Parseltongue.

76. Rajinikanth collects Honey from his private Moon – HoneyMoon.

77. Rajinikanth can answer a missed call.

78. Rajinikanth doesn’t need a visa to travel abroad, he just jumps from the tallest building in Chennai and holds himself in the air while the earth rotates.

79. Rajinikanth’s brain works faster than Chacha Chaudhury’s.

80. Rajinikanth doesn’t shower. He only takes blood baths.

81. To be or not to be? That is the question. The answer? Rajinikanth.

82. The quickest way to a man’s heart is with Rajinikanth’s fist.

83. Where there is a will, there is a way. Where there is Rajinikanth, there is no other way.

84. Behind every successful man, there is a woman. Behind every dead man, there is Rajanikanth.

85. Rajinikant doesn’t bowl strikes, he just knocks down one pin and the other nine faint out of fear.

86. Archaeologists unearthed an old English dictionary dating back to the year 1236. It defined “victim” as “one who has encountered Rajinikant”.

87. There is no such thing as global warming. Rajinikanth was feeling cold, so brought the sun closer to heat the earth up.

88. Once a cobra bit Rajinikanth’ leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.

89. Rajinikanth is a champion in the game “Hide n’ seek”, as no one can hide from Rajinikant.

90. Rajinikant proves Newton wrong all the time. Every time he performs an action, he simply eliminates anything and everything that can provide the reaction.

91. Rajinikant is a weapon created by God to use on doomsday to end the world.

92. Aliens do indeed exist. They just know better than to visit a planet that Rajinikanth is on.

93. We live in an expanding universe. All of it is trying to get away from Rajinikanth.

94. If at first you don’t succeed, you’re not Rajinikanth.

95. Rajinikanth’s first job was as a bus conductor. There were no survivors.

96. Rajinikanth does not style his hair. It lays perfectly in place out of sheer terror.

97. When Rajinikanth plays Monopoly, it affects the actual world economy.

98. It takes Rajanikanth 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.

99. Rajinikanth’s house has no doors, only walls that he walks through.

100. Rajnikanth doesn’t answer nature’s call nature answers Rajnikanth’s call.

101. Rajanikanth does not know where you live, but he knows where you will die.

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What is IPL | History and Facts | Schedule 2013

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket championship in India. It was initiated by BCCI and Lalit Modi, who served as the league’s 1st Chairman and Commissioner, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league’s Chairman and Commissioner. It is currently contested by 9 teams, consisting of players from around the cricketing world. It was started after an altercation between the BCCI and the Indian Cricket League (ICL).
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IPL History

The BCCI’s million dollar baby, has redefined the perception of the game since its origin in 2008. It brought money and glamour to the cricketers and also gave the most needed platform to the young cricketers in the country. Despite several controversies viz. corruption, match fixing and money laundering, the tournament has witnessed several electrifying performances in all departments of the game.
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IPL 2013

Having a star-studded opening ceremony on Tuesday, 2/4/2013 the ‘City of Joy’ Kolkata, opened its heart to the cricket world. The dazzling Bollywood-style opening ceremony kicked off the 6th edition of the IPL, with American rapper Pitbull and superstar Shah Rukh Khan stealing the limelight.

The city let its hair down with SRK, Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone grooving to the desi moves, leaving the healthy turnout at the Salt Lake Stadium enthralled.

With another edition of the cricketing extravaganza on its way with IPL 6, we bring you some interesting facts and figures about the tournament.
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IPL Facts

1. A total of 96,722 runs have been scored in first 5 editions, at an average 25.61 runs/wicket. These runs have been scored at a rate of 7.89 RPO. An average of 5.87 wickets has been taken in every innings at a strike rate of 19.49 balls/wicket.

2. The average 20-over score in the IPL has been 157.71. Quite predictably, the 2009 edition that was played in South Africa had the lowest average, of 149.60. The 2010 edition was the most batsman-friendly, with an average score of 166.

3. A total of 3,086 sixes and 8,555 fours have been struck, with a 4 or 6 every 6.32 balls, and a six every 24 balls. The opening edition was the hardest on the bowlers in terms of boundaries scored, with a four or a six every 5.57 balls and a six every 21 balls.

4. In firt five editions, teams scored 4s: CSK 1075, KXIP 1048, MI 1043, DD 1013, RR 1005, RCB 1003, DC 957, KKR 902, PWI 335, KTK 170

5. Till season 5, teams with most losses: DC 46, RCB 38, KXIP 37, DD/KKR 35, RR 34, MI 33, CSK 32, PWI 21, KTK 8

6. Most sixes in IPL: Gayle 129, Raina 97, Gilchrist 86, RSharma 82, YPathan 81, Sehwag 79, Yuvraj 67, Dhoni 64, Uthappa/SMarsh/Watson 59

7. Batsmen with most fours: 257 SRT, 240 Gambhir, 225 Sehwag, 207 Kallis, 204 Dravid, 198 Gilchrist, 189 Raina, 182 Sanga, 167 RSharma, 166 Dhawan

8. Most matches won by a teams: CSK 47, Mumbai 43, Delhi/RCB 39, Rajasthan 37, KKR 36, Kings XI 35

9. Orange Cap winners: S Marsh (2008) 616 runs M Hayden (2009) 572 S Tendulkar (2010) 618 C Gayle (2011) 608 C Gayle (2012) 733

10. Purple Cap winners: Sohail Tanvir (2008) 22 wkts, RP Singh (2009) 23, P Ojha (2010) 21, Malinga (2011) 28, M.Morkel (2012) 25

11. Chennai Super Kings have scored the highest number of runs by a team in the tournament, 12,736, at an average of 30.18 runs/wicket – significantly higher than the tournament average of 25.61. Deccan Chargers have been the under-performers with the bat (among teams that have played all the seasons) with an average of 23.73 runs/wicket.

12. Mumbai Indians have been the best bowling team, taken the highest number of wickets by any team – 485 at an average of 22.94. Mumbai also have been the most economical, conceding 7.34 runs an over.

13. Deccan Chargers won their only Championship in 2009 due to their bowling. DC took 110 wickets in that year, the most by any team in a season, at an average of 21.70. The best bowling team in a season in terms of average, though, is Delhi Daredevils in 2009 – they took 106 wickets that year at an average of 20.35.

14. 2009 was the best edition for bowlers: they enjoyed the helpful conditions in South Africa, averaging 23.41 per wicket. This is significantly lower than the overall average of 25.61. The bowlers had a strike rate of 18.77 in 2009, against the tournament average strike rate of 19.49.

15. Matches between Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore have been the ones to watch out for, in terms of runs and wickets. Twelve matches between the two teams have produced 3750 runs, the most runs involving any two teams, and 150 wickets, again the highest involving any pair of teams.

16. Teams batting second have won 53.87% (174 out of 323) of matches. Super Kings have the highest win percentage (65.52%, 19 wins out of 29) for teams batting second. The highest number of wins batting second, though, have been recorded by Daredevils and Royal Challengers – 26. Mumbai have the highest win percentage (56.41%, 22 wins out of 39) batting first, with Super Kings winning the most number of matches batting first – 28.

17. Gautam Gambhir has the best win-loss ratio of 1.61 among captains who have led in at least 20 matches in the IPL. He is followed by MS Dhoni (1.48) and Sachin Tendulkar (1.42). Dhoni is the captain with most IPL wins – his 46 wins have come in 78 matches.

18. Sri Lankans captaining IPL teams: M.Jayawardene (KXIP, KTK & DD, 16 mts), Sangakkara (KXIP & DC, 38 mts) & Angelo Mathews (for PWI in 2013)

19. Batsman involved in all run-outs most times are: 17 Rohit Sharma (4 self+13 partner), 14 Raina (6+8)/MJayawardene (7+7)/Venugopal (10+4)

20. Most matches played by a team: CSK 81, RCB 78, Mumbai Indians 76, Deccan/Delhi 75, Kings XI 73, Rajasthan/KKR 72.

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