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After winning the toss, KKR opted to bat first and posted a decent total of 171/6 with the help of quickfire knocks from Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Rana. Wicket-keeper Dinesh Karthik also played a brilliant cameo in the end. Shardul Thakur and Ravindra Jadeja were fantastic with the ball for CSK in the first innings with bowling figures of 2/20 and 1/21 respectively.
While chasing, CSK had a good opening partnership from Gaikwad - Faf du Plessis. But in the last 4 overs, when CSK needed 40 more to win they started to lose wickets like a pack of cards and were reduced to 146/6 after the end of 18 overs. When it looked like KKR would win the game comfortably, Ravindra Jadeja smashed 20 runs off the last 4 balls of 19th over bowled by Prasidh Krishna and gave a spectacular twist to the game. CSK ultimately managed to clinch the thriller on the last ball of the 2oth over. With this victory, CSK once again jumped to the top of IPL 2021 points table.
Numbers and stats from CSK vs KKR match:
7 - CSK have won an IPL match on last ball of the game for 7th time while chasing.
Most times winning IPL chases on last ball of the match:
CSK - 7 times
MI - 6 times
RR - 4 times
3 - Varun Chakravarthy has dismissed MS Dhoni through bowled dismissal for the 3rd time in IPL history which remains to be most for any bowler.
22(8) - Ravindra Jadeja has had a fabulous record against KKR on UAE soil with the bat.
Ravindra Jadeja scores in IPL vs KKR in UAE :
21*(8) in Abu Dhabi, 2020
31*(11) in Dubai, 2020
22(8) in Abu Dhabi, 2021
152 - Sunil Narine became the first player to complete 150 wickets for KKR. Currently he has 152 wickets for KKR (134 in IPL & 18 in CLT20).
50 - Ravindra Jadeja also completed the milestone of hitting 50 sixes for CSK in IPL.
524 - Faf du Plessis & Ruturaj Gaikwad have 524 runs partnership in IPL 2021 so far and became the 2nd opening pair to have 500+ runs partnership in this season.
Most opening partnership runs in IPL 2021:
Shikhar Dhawan & Prithvi Shaw - 550 runs
Faf du Plessis & Ruturaj Gaikwad - 524 runs
Virat Kohli & Devdutt Padikkal - 427 runs
2 - Shardul Thakur bowled his 2nd maiden over in IPL overall during his spell against KKR.
Most maiden overs for CSK in IPL since 2018:
Deepak Chahar - 6
Ravindra Jadeja - 2
Lungi Ngidi - 2
Shardul Thakur - 2
Dwayne Bravo / Harbhajan Singh / Imran Tahir - 1