Kings XI Punjab will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore in their second match of IPL 2020 in Dubai tonight.
Kings XI Punjab lost their opening match to Delhi Capitals in super over. Their performance was good in that match but still, they need a lot of improvements in both batting and bowling. Batsmen need to bat with more responsibility and the likes of Glenn Maxwell and Nicholas Pooran should just not play attacking cricket and one of them has to play the anchor's role in middle overs. KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal have to give a good start and K Gowtham needs to play the finisher's role.
In bowling, Chris Jordan needs to work on his death overs bowling. Other bowlers like Shami and Cottrell were good against Delhi and they will look to continue their good form.
On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore won their first match against Sunrisers Hyderabad and they will be eyeing their second win. Captain Virat Kohli didn't do much with the bat and he will be eager to score big runs along with Finch, AB de Villiers, and Padikkal, etc.
In bowling Yuzvendra Chahal and Navdeep Saini were outstanding and the duo of Umesh Yadav and Dale Steyn need to bowl well in the power play to put some pressure on batsmen.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the sixth match between Kings XI Punjab and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Dubai :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 24
Kings XI Punjab won - 12
Royal Challengers Bangalore won - 12
29 - Umesh Yadav has taken 29 wickets at an average of 17.44 in 18 matches against Kings XI Punjab in IPL.
52.30 - AB de Villiers has scored 680 runs at an average of 52.30 in 19 IPL innings with 7 fifties against Kings XI Punjab.
100 - Dale Steyn needs 3 more wickets to achieve the milestone of 100 wickets in IPL.
400 - AB de Villiers needs to hit one more six to complete 400 sixes in T20 cricket.
2000 - KL Rahul needs 2 more runs to complete 2000 runs in the Indian Premier League.
9000 - Virat Kohli needs 86 more runs to become the first Indian player to score 9000 or more runs in T20 cricket.
