1. KKR has now lost only once in their last 9 IPL opening games. In this timeframe they have won against 5 teams including against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the 2019 edition.
2. SRH becomes the second team to score 10 sixes in this IPL after Chennai Super Kings. Both teams lost their respective games.
3. SRH now has lost their three consecutive opening games in IPL.
4. Jonny Bairstow (55) registered his 6th IPL 50 in 22 games.
5. Abdul Samad held two catches in the match and has taken his tally in IPl to 7 catches in 13 matches. Samad, in addition to his 2 catches, also scored two sixes and came into bat with exactly two overs left in the game.
6. SRH’s Rashid Khan continued his impressive mean bowling streak of conceding just 6 runs an over. His IPL career economy rate is 6.24 and leads the most economical IPL bowlers all time.
7. There are only 4 active players in the all time most economical bowlers in IPL and it features three of them from today’s game squad (Rashid Khan and Mohammed Nabi from SRH and Sunil Narine from KKR, who did not play).
8. Manish Pandey scored his 19th IPL career half century and his 10th for SRH. The first IPL centurion is still on the lookout for his second ton since 2009.
9. Harbhajan Singh started for his third IPL team at 40 years old, though he just bowled one over, the first to kick start the SRH innings.
10. Rahul Tripathi (53), with his sixth IPL career 50 has now scored two fifties each for all the three teams he has played so far.
11. Nitish Rana (80) scored his eighth half century in just 41 innings for KKR. His 9 boundaries and 4 sixes also mirror his 2:1 fours to sixes ratio in his IPL career statistics for KKR alone.
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