- Chennai Super Kings (CSK) won all their matches since the tournament restart and four of their last 5 matches.
- Eoin Morgan (8) continues to have a bad run with the bat as he has scored just 99 runs in 8 innings including three single digit scores and two ducks.
- Sam Curran (0-56) became the third most expensive bowler in a match in IPL 2021. He is also the second CSK bowler to register an expensive 4 over spell in a game this IPL after Lungi Ngidi’s 0-62 on May 1 2021 vs Mumbai Indians
- Deepak Chahar and Sam Curran were the only bowlers to have not claimed any wickets among the bowler from both sides having bowled at least 3 overs.
- Faf du Plessis (43) and Ruturaj Gaekwad (40) extend their stay in the leading run getters list as they both move closer towards the 400-run aggregate.
- Rahul Tripathi (45) top scorer in the entire game also entered toe top 10 run getters list and the first Kolkata Knight Riders batsman to do so as well.
- Shubman Gill (9) had yet another low scoring game and has just 202 runs in 10 innings as an opening batsman.
- Gill has also scored just 127 runs in 7 innings against CSK in all IPL editions so far.
- Shardul Thakur (2-20) has now taken 10 wickets in the tournament including 5 in his last three matches as part of the tournament re-start in the UAE.
- Sunil Narine’s 3-41 is his best bowling effort in IPL 2021. He has only 7 wickets in this tournament so far, while he is 8th in the all-time leading wicket takers list in IPL with 134 wickets.
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