- Shardul Thakur was back to being expensive again giving away 44 runs in his 4 overs. He is the second most runs giver in this tournament so far (211) just behind Pat Cummins (213). He has also only taken 4 wickets in 6 matches.
- Among the top 5 leading wicket takers for Chennai in this tournament so far, only Sam Curran and Lungi Ngidi were among the wickets in this game.
- Deepak Chahar’s sinusoidal streak ended in this game as he has now been wicketless in two consecutive matches. Earlier he had a pattern of claiming 4 wickets in a match or none in alternate games. Interestingly, he is still the sxth leading wicket taker in the tournament and Chennai’s leading wicket taker as well.
- Faf du Plessis has overtaken Shikar Dhawan by 5 runs as the leading run getter in this tournament so far. Only Faf and KL Rahul have scored 3 fifties in the tournament as well till now.
- David Warner (57 of 55 balls) had a slow scoring game for his standards. Interestingly all captains except Sanju Samson of Rajasthan Royals all have a batting strike rate below 131 so far.
- Sam Curran has been among wickets in 5 consecutive matches now and has taken crucial wickets (Andre Russell, Virat Kohli, Jonny Bairstow in this game).
- Manish Pandey (61) scored his second fifty n 4 matches in this IPL. He started this edition with an unbeaten 61 as well against Kolkata Knight Riders.
- Rashid Khan has seen a increasing trend of runs being scored of his bowling in recent matches. He has given away 67 runs in his last 8 overs in this IPL. However, he had his best bowling in this edition with 3-36 and with 9 overall wickets, he is now tied in the third position among leading wicket takers.
- Ruturaj Gaikwad scored his fifth IPL 50 in 12 innings. Faf and Ruturaj are the only openers to figure in the top 10 run getters list in this tournament so far.
- Chennai Super Kings chased the target of 171 runs easily with an over and a half to spare and also with just one six in their entire innings (scored by Faf).
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