All the major stats and facts ahead of the 37th match between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals in Abu Dhabi.
Chennai Super Kings will take on Rajasthan Royals in their tenth match of IPL 2020 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi tonight.
Chennai Super Kings with 6 points from 9 matches is sitting at 7th place and to stay alive in the race of playoffs they have to win this match. Their batting lineup of Sam Curran, Faf du Plessis, Shane Watson, and Ambati Rayudu is in good form and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja is doing very well in the finisher's role and the team will hope captain MS Dhoni too will come good.
In bowling, Deepak Chahar and Sam Curran will be key with the new ball, and in Bravo's absence, they need someone like Josh Hazlewood who can control things in middle and death overs.
On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals is at bottom of the points table with 6 points from 9 matches and it's a do or die contest for them as well. From the last two matches, they are playing well but need to do much better to cross the winning line. Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson, and Steven Smith these four have to step up with the bat while in bowling Jofra Archer and Kartik Tyagi have been good so far but the likes of Jaydev Unadkat and Shreyas Gopal haven't performed well yet.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the 37th match between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals in Abu Dhabi :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 22
Chennai Super Kings won - 14
Rajasthan Royals won - 8
77 - Sanju Samson has scored only 77 runs in his last 7 innings of this IPL season.
200 - MS Dhoni will become the first-ever player to appear in 200 matches in the Indian Premier League.
1000 - Steven Smith needs 21 more runs to complete 1000 runs for Rajasthan Royals in IPL.
2017 - Ben Stokes hasn't scored a fifty-plus score in the Indian Premier League since 2017. He has gone 28 consecutive innings without a fifty in this league.
4000 - MS Dhoni needs 6 more runs to complete 4000 runs for Chennai Super Kings in IPL.
5000 - Ambati Rayudu needs 5 more runs to achieve the milestone of 5000 runs in T20 cricket.