- Rajasthan Royals (RR) won just their second win in this IPL edition and improve to sixth in the table
- Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)’s loss in the match extends their losing streak in this IPL to 4 matches now. The loss is also their seventh in their last 10 IPL matches.
- Mumbai’s Quinton de Kock and Rajasthan’s Manan Vohra (did not pay in this match) are the only opening batsmen who have scored less than Shubman Gill’s 80 runs in this IPL so far. De Kock and Vohra have both played a match less than Gill.
- KKR’s skipper Eoin Morgan hasn’t done better either as he has scored just 45 runs in his 5 innings so far. He was dismissed for a duck without facing a delivery, jst his second in his IPL career. He had just two single digit score in the entire 2020 IPL edition while he has three of them already in this edition excluding a duck in this match.
- Chris Morris (4-23) was able to break into the top 4 leading wicket takers list and took a slot between the Chahar cousins with 9 wickets now. Interestingly, he emulated his all time best from his effort in 2015 but on that occasion, he was playing for KKR against RR.
- Morris has claimed 4wickets in an innings four times. Interestingly those were 4/23 twice and 4/26 twice each.
- Sanju Samson’s patient 42 catapulted him to fourth among leading run getters in this IPL. He has a century but still no fifties.
- KKR’s leading wicket taker in this tournament so far, Andre Russel (7) did not et to bowl in this match.
- Sunil Narine had yet another wicketless match. He has 6 such instances in his last 10 IPL matches.
- Eoin Morgan has also lost 5 of his 12 matches as KKR’s skipper.
- The top five most expensive bowlers of this IPL have all played in this low scoring game. Pat Cummins (182 runs), Prasidh Krishna (177 runs), Mustafizur Rahman (167 runs), Chetan Sakariya (166 runs) and Chris Morris (162 runs) complete the list.
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