- The entire game witnessed just 4 sixes, two each by both the sides.
- This game continued the sequence of too many single digit scores in a game (7). The last 3 games have had a combined 25 single digit scores.
- Moeen Ali (46) continued his impressive start for CSK with the second-best score of the match.
- No batsman scored a fifty in this game, being a low scoring affair, but breaks a 6-match streak of multiple fifties and even a century scored in every game.
- The Chahars are having a great week. After Rahul’s player of the match performance (4-27) on the 13th, it was Deepak’s turn today. He claimed 4-13 including four of the top 5 Punjab Kings (PBKS) batsmen.
- Shardul Thakur (0-35 in 4 overs) was again on the expensive side conceding close to 9 runs in an over in a game were PBKS scored at 5.3 an over their entire innings. He gave up 53 runs in 3.4 overs in CSK’s first game. Unsurprisingly his IPL career bowling economy rate is over 9 runs an over too in 46 matches.
- Nicolas Pooran is yet to score in this IPL registering back to back ducks. He has also played just 3 deliveries so far.
- This week also witnessed all West Indian players failing with the bat across all the teams. This includes Chris Gayle and Nicolas Pooran in this game and Holder, Russell, from earlier this week.
Stamazers 