Rajasthan Royals will take on Kings XI Punjab in their second match of IPL 2020 at Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah.
Rajasthan Royals kicked off their campaign with a 16-run win against Chennai Super Kings at the same venue and will aim to clinch their second win of the season. The return of Jos Buttler will boost their batting line up and the likes of Steven Smith and Sanju Samson who scored the fifties against Super Kings and Jos Buttler will have to continue to score big runs and in middle and lower order Robin Uthappa, David Miller or Riyan Parag have to support them.
In bowling, Jofra Archer and Shreyas Gopal will be the key players and they have Tom Curran, Rahul Tewatia, and Jaydev Unadkat for support.
On the other hand, Kings XI Punjab opened their win account with a big 97 runs win over Royal Challengers Bangalore and they will look to carry that form into this match. KL Rahul who scored 132* against Challengers will have to continue his good run and he will hope the likes of Nicholas Pooran, Glenn Maxwell and Mayank Agarwal too will do well.
In the bowling, Sheldon Cottrell and Mohammed Shami have done a wonderful job with the new ball and in the middle overs youngster, Ravi Bishnoi has impressed a lot.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the ninth match between Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab in Sharjah :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 19
Rajasthan Royals won - 10
Kings XI Punjab won - 9
One of the Kings XI Punjab's wins came in super over
6 - Kings XI Punjab has won 6 of their last 8 matches against Rajasthan Royals in IPL. One of the wins came in super over.
50 - David Miller needs to take one more catch to become the 12th fielder to take 50 or more catches in IPL.
55 - KL Rahul has scored 275 runs at an average of 55.0 in 7 innings with 3 fifties against Rajasthan Royals in IPL.
100 - Sanju Samson needs to hit 2 more sixes to complete 100 sixes in the Indian Premier League.
335 - Jos Buttler has scored 335 runs at an average of 47.85 in 7 innings with 4 fifties against Kings XI Punjab in IPL.
6000 - Jos Buttler needs 97 more runs to achieve the milestone of 6000 runs in T20 cricket.
