All the major stats and facts ahead of the 46th match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab in Sharjah
Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Kings XI Punjab in their 12th match of IPL 2020 at Sharjah Cricket Ground in Sharjah tonight.
Kolkata Knight Riders are sitting at 4th place from 12 points from 11 matches while Kings XI Punjab is sitting at 5th place with 10 points from 11 matches so this match is very crucial for both sides to win this match and the winner will be in a good position for the play-offs race.
Kolkata Knight Riders' openers Shubman Gill and Rahul Tripathi have been struggling and they need to come good in this match and the middle order of Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, and Dinesh Karthik need to do well so they can post a good total. In the bowling, Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, and Varun Chakravarthy will be crucial.
On the other hand, Kings XI Punjab is on a four-match winning streak and they will look to extend it. As usual, the batting line up of KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, and Nicholas Pooran have to score big runs and then in bowling Mohammad Shami, Chris Jordan, Arshdeep Singh and spin duo of Murugan Ashwin and Ravi Bishnoi have to continue their momentum which they gained in the last match against Hyderabad.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the 46th match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab in Sharjah :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 26
Kolkata Knight Riders won - 18
Kings XI Punjab won - 8
2 - Sunil Narine needs 2 more wickets to go past Umesh Yadav's tally of 29 wickets and become the leading wicket-taker against Kings XI Punjab in IPL.
4 - Kings XI Punjab has won each of their last 4 matches in this IPL season.
16 - Chris Gayle needs 16 more runs to complete 1000 runs for Kings XI Punjab in IPL.
649 - Chris Gayle has scored 649 runs at 46.35 in 17 innings with 1 hundred and 4 fifties against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL.
1000 - Nitish Rana needs 87 more runs to complete 1000 runs for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL.
2016 - Glenn Maxwell hasn't scored a fifty-plus score in the Indian Premier League since May 2016.