Quick Stats: M23 - KKR vs GL
42 Runs scored by Sunil Narine in the match – the highest score in the IPL comprising of only boundary fours and sixes (8 fours and 2 sixes). Sanath Jayasuriya had made 36 runs with 6 fours and 2 sixes for Mumbai Indians against Deccan Chargers in 2008.
7 Number of bowlers used by Gujarat Lions in first 8 overs.
157 Number of balls taken by Gautam Gambhir to hit his first six in this edition.
3 Number of players from Kolkata Knight Riders to open both batting and bowling in the same IPL match. Narine joined Chris Gayle and Jacques Kallis in doing so.
2 Number of instances of two spinners (Shakib Al Hasan and Sunil Narine) opening the bowling in an IPL match in this edition. The only other such instance had come at Rajkot on April 18, when Pawan Negi and Yuzvendra Chahal opened the bowling for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Gujarat Lions.
6673 Runs scored by Suresh Raina in the Twenty20 cricket – most by an Indian. He went ahead of Virat Kohli’s tally of 6667. During his innings, Raina also became the leading run-scorer in the IPL, beating Virat Kohli’s aggregate of 4264 runs.
3.5 Overs taken by Gujarat Lions to race to fifty – their joint-fastest in the IPL. They had also reached the mark in 3.5 overs against Delhi Daredevils in 2016.
42 Runs conceded by Sunil Narine in the match. Only once has Narine conceded more runs in an IPL match without taking a wicket. Against Royal Challengers Bangalore at Bengaluru in 2016 Narine returned the figures of 4-0-45-0.
109.50 Suresh Raina’s average against Kolkata Knight Riders while playing for Gujarat Lions. He has made the scores of 14, 53*, 68* and 84 against Kolkata Knight Riders in four innings.