Vivo IPL 2021 Match 21 Punjab Kings Vs Kolkata Knight Riders – April 26, 2021 – Statistical Amazers

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Morgan back among the runs and Narine claims two wickets as Bishnoi’s great effort not enough to stop KKR’s win
  1. Punjab Kings (PBKS) becomes the first team to score less than 135 in two of their 6 matches, batting first. They have scored between 120-132 in their last 3 matches though they chased a low target of 132 in their last game.
  2. Punjab Kings scored the slowest 100 of the tournament, which they reached in 18.2 overs.
  3. Nicolas Pooran (19) finally got to score in double digits (in 4 attempts). Prior to this edition he scored in double digits in 12 of huis last 15 IPL matches.
  4. Chris Gayle (0) was dismissed for his eighth duck in 137 IPL innings. This also is his second golden duck, both against Kolkata Knight Riders, a team he played for few years back as well.
  5. Chris Jordan (30) in his first IPL match in this edition top scored for PBKS coming into bat at number 8.
  6. Sunil Narine (2-22) has claimed two or more wickets after a dry stretch of 6 matches in which he got only one wicket overall.
  7. All Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) bowers who have bowled more than one over got at least a wicket. The exception was Andre Russel, who just bowled one over. Interestingly, he is 7th among the leading wicket takers in this IPL with 7 wickets.
  8. Prasidh Krishna (207 runs) and Pat Cummins (213 runs) became the first bowlers in this IPL to give away 200 or more runs consolidated from all their 6 matches.  However, Prasidh is in the top 10 wicket takers list with 8 wickets, with 3-30 in this match being his best in this edition.
  9. Shubman Gill (9) failed to capitalize yet again on a modest run chase as he is the only opening batsman to have played 5 matches or more and scored less than 100 runs overall in the tournament. He has scored just 89 runs in this IPL so far.
  10. Sunil Narine (0) registered his 7th duck in 69 innings in IPL. He has batted in positions 3-5 in his last 5 innings and has combined for just 17 runs, including two ducks.
  11. 9 different bowlers from both sides were among the wickets in this match.
  12. Eoin Morgan (47*) doubled the total runs he scored so far (45 runs). That leaves Gill as the only top and middle order batsman from KKR to have scored less than 90 runs in this edition so far.
  13. KL Rahul (19) has taken 129 deliveries to score 144 runs in his last 4 innings, all opening the batting for PBKS. He still holds the second position among the leading run getters in this IPL.
  14. Ravi Bishnoi’s great catch in the match is just his third catch in 16 matches. It also comes after a gap of 13 matches.

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