Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore in their tenth match of IPL 2020 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi tonight.
Kolkata Knight Riders have 10 points from 9 matches and are sitting at 4th place in the points table. They're coming with a super over win against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the last match so they have the momentum and confidence with them. Openers Shubman Gill and Rahul Tripathi need to give a quick start and Gill has to work on his strike rotation.
And in middle overs, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan and Andre Russell need to do the job and Dinesh Karthik can do finisher's job. In bowling Lockie Ferguson is back with a band and that's a morale booster for other bowlers like Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi and Andre Russell who have been average so far. In spin Varun Chakravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav will be key bowlers.
On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore who have 12 points from 9 matches is sitting at 3rd place in the points table. They too are coming with a win over Rajasthan Royals in the last match and will look to continue their winning run.
They too need some improvements in the batting department as Aaron Finch is struggling to convert his starts and after AB de Villiers their batting line up is very weak so if top order fails then they can face a lot of issues. In the bowling Chris Morris, Yuzvendra Chahal, Navdeep Saini and Washington Sundar have been good so far and once again they have to step up.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the 39th match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Abu Dhabi :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 25
Kolkata Knight Riders won - 14
Royal Challengers Bangalore won - 11
3 - Pat Cummins has taken only 3 wickets in 9 matches of this season so far and in the last 6 matches he took only 1 wicket.
82 - Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Kolkata Knight Riders in the first meeting of this season at Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah.
92 - Andre Russell has scored only 92 runs in 9 matches of this season so far with a highest score of 24.
200 - Virat Kohli needs to hit one more six to become the fifth batsman to hit 200 or more sixes in IPL.
707 - Virat Kohli has scored 707 runs at 39.27 in 22 innings with 1 hundred and 4 fifties against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL.
2000 - Aaron Finch needs 58 more runs to achieve the milestone of 2000 runs in Indian Premier League.
9000 - AB de Villiers needs 58 more runs to complete 9000 runs in T20 cricket.
