All the major stats and facts ahead of the 54th match of Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals in Dubai.
Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Rajasthan Royals in their 14th and last league match of IPL 2020 at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Sunday night.
Kolkata Knight Riders have 12 points from 13 matches and they need to win this match to stay in the race of play-offs. Their batting line up has been inconsistent this season and they all need to step up especially Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan, and Dinesh Karthik and if Andre Russell returns from his injury then it boost their batting line further, and then in bowling Pat Cummins and Lockie Ferguson have to lead from the front and they will get good support from Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine.
On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals also have 12 points from 13 matches and they too need to win this match to have a chance of a top-four finish. They are coming with two back-to-back wins so have the momentum with them. Ben Stokes, Sanju Samson, Steven Smith, and Jos Buttler all are among runs so it's a good sign for them and in bowling Jofra Archer and Kartik Tyagi have been doing well and the likes of Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Tewatia, Ben Stokes and Varun Aaron too have to step up.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the 54th match of Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals in Dubai :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 21
Kolkata Knight Riders won - 11
Rajasthan Royals won - 10
15.36 - Dinesh Karthik's batting average in this IPL season. He has scored only 169 runs in 13 innings with 1 fifty.
19 - Jofra Archer has taken 19 wickets at 18.21 in 13 matches so far and of which 8 wickets came in the power play.
26 - Sanju Samson has hit 26 sixes in this tournament so far - the most by any batsman so far.
50 - Steven Smith will play his 50th match for Rajasthan Royals in IPL. He has scored 1066 runs in 49 matches with 8 fifties so far.
519 - Dinesh Karthik has scored 519 runs against Rajasthan Royals in IPL - the fourth-most by any batsman.
1000 - Shubman Gill needs 97 more runs to complete 1000 runs in IPL while Dinesh Karthik needs 80 more runs to complete 1000 IPL runs for KKR.
2000 - Sanju Samson needs 94 more runs to complete 2000 runs for Rajasthan Royals in IPL.