1. IPL 2021 began and was stuck in high forties. No batsman scored more than 49 in game 1 and it took CSK’s Moeen Ali to score the game’s first sixer at 48/2. CSK went on to score 10 in total in a losing cause.

2. Delhi Capitals have won their third straight IPL opening game (including a Super over win in the last edition). Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan have opened for batting for them on all the three opening games.

3. Both teams had six players to have played in the opening IPL game in 2020 and 2021 editions. CSK had Dhoni, du Plessis, Rayudu, Jadeja, S. Curran and Chahar. Capitals had Shaw, Dhawan, Stoinis, Pant, Hetmeyer and Aswin.

4. The match witnessed the Curran brothers, Sam and Tom playing against each other. An interesting snippet is that their father, Kevin Curran has also played a match in the Wankhede stadium in the 1987 World Cup against India.

5. CSK’s loss ends their three match first match winning streak in IPL.

6. Faf du Plessis and MS Dhoni both registered their fourth ducks for CSK in IPL. They are joint third among all CSK batsmen with most ducks (minimum 50 matches), behind Raina (8) and Badrinath (6).

7. Suresh Raina (54) in his comeback game in IPL registered his 33^rd IPL fifty in 165 matches. He is also fifth all time with 40 knocks of over fifty (including 8 for Gujarat Lions).

8. Shikhar Dhawan took 3 catches is now fifth all time with 76 catches in 177 matches.

9. Shikhar Dhawan (85) also moves to third among leading run getters all time in IPL. He is only behind Kohli and Raina, while closely being followed by David Warner and Rohit Sharma.

10. Delhi had an interesting 1:5 sixes to four ratio by scoring just 5 sixes to 24 fours, while able to easily accomplish the chase of 189 with 8 balls to spare.

11. Shardul Thakur had an expensive game, going for 53 runs in 3.4 overs. Unsurprisingly his IPL career bowling economy rate is over 9 runs an over too in 46 matches.