- Chris Gayle (13) has not scored a 50 yet in this IPL in 8 innings. He has three scores in the 40s. The last time he did not score a 50 in a long stretch of 12 matches was between May 2015 to May 2016, spanning two IPL editions.
- Mayank Agarwal (99) almost became the fourth centurion of this IPL, but he could score only 4 of the last delivery of the Punjab Kings (PBKS) innings. This is however his 9th 50 in 89 innings spanning across 10 seasons.
- Mayank was also leading a team for the first time in IPL in KL Rahul’s absence. Rahul and Mayank have both combined to lose 13 of their 22 matches as skippers of PBKS now.
- Shikhar Dhawan (69*) now has a comfortable lead with 380 runs for the Orange cap. With KL Rau out for some time, his nearest competitor (Faf du Plessis) is 60 runs behind with one less match played though.
- Dawid Malan played in his first ever IPL match and scored 26 runs, which is nearly close to Nicolas Pooran’s (the player he replaced) run aggregate in 5 innings in the IPL so far (28 runs).
- Rabada (3/36) claimed his best bowling figures in this IPL and has 8 wickets in total in 7 matches. Interestingly, 6 of his 8 wickets were all batsmen being dismissed.
- Deepak Hooda ever since he scored the fastest fifty early in this IPL edition (now second fastest) has scored just 52 runs in his following 6 innings.
- Avesh Khan (1-39) maintains his second position among leading wicket takers in this IPL so far (joint second with Chris Morris of Rajasthan Royals), still 3 wickets behind Harshal Patel’s 17 for the Purple cap.
Stamazers 