- Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have won their fourth game in a row and their seventh in their last 10 IPL matches.
- CSK has now scored in a very tight range of 188 – 191 runs batting first in four of their five matches and won three of them.
- In 143 innings in IPL, Ravindra Jadeja (62*) registered his highest score. He has scored his only other fifty in the last IPL edition. However, he won his 10th Player of the match award.
- AB de Villiers (4) had to score just 26 runs to become the sixth player to score 5000 runs in IPL but that was not to happen in this game and the wait continues.
- Faf du Plessis (50) scored his second 50 of the tournament and is now the third leading run getter as well with 214 runs.
- Suresh Raina (24) since his 54 in the opening game, has scored just 50 more runs in 3 innings.
- Shardul Thakur (1-11 in 4 overs) had his best match in the IPL so far as he claimed a wicket and had easily the most economical spell of his IPL career spanning 50 matches.
- Ravindra Jadeja claimed a catch and is now in the second spot for most catches in this IPL with 7 catches behind Shikar Dhawan’s.
- Harshal Patel (3-50) continues to lead the bowlers list with most wickets so far in this IPL with 15 and holds the Purple cap as well. He has claimed a wicket in all the 5 matches so far.
- Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) winning streak of 4 matches ends with this defeat. Their last win streak of 5 or more matches was in the 2016 edition.
- Deepak Chahar went wicketless in this game and is having a sinusoidal performance in this IPL. He either claims 4 wickets or none in alternate games. He is still the fifth most wicket taker in this tournament.
- Yuzvendra Chahal broke his 3-match wicket-less streak prior to this game by getting the first CSK wicket of Ruturaj Gaikwad. He is 8th in the all time IPL wicket takers list among active players.
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