Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) will take on Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in their fifth match of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on October 4.
Kings XI Punjab have only one win from four matches but their performances have been good as they lost two matches from winning position, so they need to do a bit better to finish on the right side of the result. Captain KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal will be the key in batting and they will hope the likes of Nicholas Pooran, Karun Nair, Maxwell and Sarfaraz Khan will come good.
In bowling, Sheldon Cottrell and Mohammad Shami are doing well with the new ball but they need a bowler who can do better in death overs so they may go for Chris Jordan in place of James Neesham.
On the other hand, Chennai Super Kings too is struggling as they also have one win from four matches and are on a three-match losing streak. Their batting have let them down as Shane Watson, Murali Vijay, Kedar Jadhav etc have been poor.
Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu and captain MS Dhoni have to step up and all-rounders Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran and Dwayne Bravo too can play useful knocks and in bowling pacers need to control things with new ball and in middle overs Jadeja, Chawla and Bravo have to do the job.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the 18th match between Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings in Dubai :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 21
Kings XI Punjab won - 9
Chennai Super Kings won - 12
52 - Shane Watson has scored only 52 runs in 4 innings of this IPL season.
59.50 - MS Dhoni's batting average against Kings XI Punjab in IPL. He has scored 595 runs in 21 innings with 5 fifties against them in this league.
150 - Dwayne Bravo needs 3 more wickets to become the fifth bowler to take 150 or more wickets in IPL.
1000 - Ambati Rayudu needs 37 more runs to complete 1000 runs for Chennai Super Kings in IPL.
2016 - Glenn Maxwell hasn't scored a fifty plus score in IPL since 4 May 2016 (68 vs KKR at Kolkata).
4000 - MS Dhoni needs 51 more runs to complete 4000 runs for Chennai Super Kings in IPL.
