- Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s (1-16) last over misery ended as Punjab posted a modest total onboard and he wasn’t required to bowl the last over of his quota. In his last games he was expensive in his last 2 overs in which he gave away 28 runs. He has also given away exactly 45 runs in his 4 overs in 2 of his 4 games now.
- Sunriser Hyderabad’s (SRH) Rashid Khan continued his impressive mean bowling streak of conceding just 17 runs in his 4 overs. He continues to lead the most economical IPL bowlers list all time. His 17 runs in this match is the lowest he has conceded in this IPL.
- David Warner (37) yet again missed an opportunity to retake the third spot in the all-time IPL run getters list as Shikhar Dhawan stays firm there with 5428 runs with Warner 44 runs behind him.
- Jonny Bairstow (63*) recorded his second fifty in this IPL edition and is now the third leading run getter with 173 runs, still 58 runs shy off challenging for the Orange cap from Shikhar Dhawan. His one catch and one stumping in addition to his knock earned him the Player of the Match recognition as well.
- Kane Williamson (16*) started in his first IPL game in 2021. He has been unbeaten on 5 of his last 9 innings in IPL now.
- Nicolas Pooran registered yet another duck, his third in 4 games and this time under unfortunate circumstances of being runout without facing a ball.
- Chris Gayle was dismissed by Rashid Khan for just the second time. Rashid has now claimed 17 wickets in 9 matches against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in which Gayle became only the fourth lbw victim.
- PBKS has batted first on all their four games and have just one game so far. Prior to this losing streak, PBKS had won 6 of their last 10 IPL matches.
- Interestingly, three PBKS bowlers (Allen, Ashwin and Hooda) conceded exactly 22 runs in their 4 overs.
- Mumbai Indians record of slowest 100 in IPL was broken by PBKS today as they reached a team total of 100 in 16.4 overs. SRH also were slowest compared to Mumbai yesterday but they were cruising at 100/1 in 15.6 overs needing just 21 more runs to win in their remaining four overs
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