Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in their second match of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi tonight.
Knight Riders as well as Sunrisers have lost their opening match and now will fight against each other to open their account tonight. In the first match against Mumbai Indians, Knight Riders' performance was below average as first they bowled without any plans and their main bowler Cummins leaked so many runs and then in the batting they didn't promote Eoin Morgan and Andre Russell.
In this match they shouldn't repeat such mistakes and have to play with proper plans. Cummins and Kuldeep Yadav need to work on their lengths while in batting, openers Gill and Narine have to give good start and Morgan should bat at number 4 so he can build the innings for a big score.
On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad too disappointed against Royal Challengers Bangalore as at first they picked a wrong team and then had a collapse in batting. Openers Warner and Bairstow have to bat deeper as they have an inexperienced middle order. Kane Williamson should be picked to strengthen the middle order and in bowling Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rashid Khan have to step up more than any other bowler.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the eighth match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Abu Dhabi:
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 17
Kolkata Knight Riders won - 10
Sunrisers Hyderabad won - 7
27 - Bhuvneshwar Kumar has taken 27 wickets in 20 matches against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL - the most wickets by any bowler.
40.90 - Sunil Narine's bowling average against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL. He has taken only 10 wickets in 16 IPL matches against them.
100 - Sandeep Sharma needs 5 more wickets to complete 100 wickets in Indian Premier League.
300 - Eoin Morgan needs to hit 5 more sixes to complete 300 sixes in T20 cricket.
829 - David Warner has scored 829 runs at an average of 43.63 in 21 innings with 2 hundreds and 4 fifties against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL.
