The Indian Premier League of 2024 saw Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeat Gujarat Titans (GT) by a margin of 63 runs in the seventh game. At Chepauk Stadium on Tuesday, Chennai amassed 206 runs for six wickets in 20 overs. The Gujarat squad was only able to score 143 runs for 8 wickets in response.
It was GT's first loss by a margin of more than fifty runs. Chennai scored more than 200 for the 29th time at the same moment. Player of the Match Shivam Dubey is the highest-scoring player in the event, with 41 IPL sixes in the last two years. The best records set during the game...
1. CSK has achieved the highest possible score of 200+ times.
For the record-tying 29th time, CSK has scored above 200. CSK had the #1 spot even prior to this. Following CSK, RCB has 24 times exceeded the maximum team score of 200 runs.
2. In the previous two years, Dubey struck the most sixes possible.
Shivam Dubey scored five sixes against Gujarat, bringing his tally of sixes from the 2023 IPL to 41. Among the players who hit the most sixes, he finished first. He left Faf du Plessis in his wake. Since the 2023 season, Faf has hit 36 sixes.
3. The biggest run-count loss for GT
The Gujarat Titans lost their debut IPL match by 63 runs. In terms of runs conceded, this is the team's largest loss. The Mumbai Indians defeated the team earlier in 2023 by a score of 27 runs. Only eleven of the 35 games the squad has played in the tournament have resulted in a loss.
For the 17th time, CSK won by more than 50 runs.
For the seventeenth time, the Chennai Super Kings triumphed by a score of fifty or more runs. No team has won by this much of a margin more than 13 times up until this point. Mumbai won 13 times by a margin of more than fifty runs after Chennai.
5. Chahar: On Tuesday, CSK bowler Deepak Chahar, who is the second-highest wicket-taker in the IPL powerplay, claimed two wickets. In the IPL powerplay, he finished second among bowlers who claimed the most wickets with this. Sandeep Sharma was abandoned by him. Sandeep leads the powerplay with 55 wickets. Chahar now holds 56 wickets. In the powerplay, Bhuvneshwar Kumar has the most wickets. In his 158 innings, he has claimed 61 wickets.
