On Thursday night game of IPL 2018 at Eden Gardens (Kolkata), hosts Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) claimed a comfortable 6-wicket victory (with 14 balls to spare) against the in-form team Chennai Super Kings (CSK).

KKR skipper Dinesh Karthik decided to field first after winning the toss. CSK managed to put 177/5 in 20 overs which were successfully chased down by the hosts in 17.4 overs after losing 4 wickets.

Brief Scores: CSK – 177/5 in 20 overs (MS Dhoni 43*, Shane Watson 36, Piyush Chawla 2/35)

KKR – 180/4 in 17.4 overs (Shubman Gill 57*, Dinesh Karthik 45*, Harbhajan Singh 1/20)

Result – KKR won by 6 wickets.

Also read: Match 33 (KKR vs CSK) – Hits and Flops

Here are some of the statistical highlights of the match

i) CSK batsmen MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja put an important 54-run partnership for the fifth wicket.

• CSK’s second highest IPL partnership against KKR for the fifth or lower wicket. The highest is 57-run partnership for the sixth wicket between Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo at Kolkata on April 30, 2015.

ii) CSK scored 177/5 in 20 overs.

• Highest IPL total for CSK at Eden Gardens (Kolkata). Their previous highest was 165/9 (20 overs) against KKR on April 30, 2015.
• Third highest IPL total in the first batting for a visiting team against KKR at Eden Gardens (Kolkata).

Top first innings IPL totals for the visiting teams against KKR at Eden Gardens 

iii) KKR left-arm pacer Mitchell Johnson had a bowling figure of 4-0-51-0.

• The second most runs conceded in an IPL innings by a KKR bowler against CSK. The record holder is Pat Cummins with the bowling figure of 4-0-54-1 at Kolkata on April 30, 2015.

iv) At the end of the game, KKR leg-spinner Piyush Chawla has taken 50 IPL wickets for KKR.

• First IPL bowler to claim 50 or more wickets for two different IPL teams. Earlier, he picked up 84 IPL wickets for Kings XI Punjab.
• The second KKR bowler to claim 50 or more IPL wickets. Off-spinner Sunil Narine (105 wickets till the end of the game) was the first KKR bowler to achieve this feat.

Also read: (KKR vs CSK) – Turning Point of the Match 

v) At the end of the game, CSK batsman MS Dhoni has hit total 150 IPL sixes for CSK.

• The second CSK batsman to hit 150 or more IPL sixes. Suresh Raina is leading on this list with 157 sixes.

vi) KKR batsmen Shubman Gill and Dinesh Karthik put the match-winning unbeaten 83-run partnership for the fifth wicket.

• KKR’s highest IPL partnership against CSK for the fifth or lower wicket. The previous highest was 76-run partnership for the sixth wicket between Dinesh Karthik and Andre Russell at Chennai on April 10, 2018.

vii) KKR skipper Dinesh Karthik scored unbeaten 45 runs.

• The second highest IPL knock by a KKR captain against CSK at Eden Gardens (Kolkata). The record is 62 runs knock by former KKR skipper Gautam Gambhir on May 14, 2012.