Kings XI Punjab will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in their 11th match of IPL 2020 at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai tonight. Both sides have 8 points from 10 matches.
Kings XI Punjab who had only one win in the first seven matches bounced back and registered three back-to-back wins over Bangalore, Mumbai, and Delhi and now they will look to extend their winning streak. Captain KL Rahul is leading from the front and the likes of Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle and Nicholas Pooran too are doing well.
In bowling Mohammad Shami has been brilliant so far and he is getting good support from Arshdeep Singh and Chris Jordan. In spin Ravi Bishnoi, Murugan Ashwin and Glenn Maxwell have been decent so far.
On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad is also coming with a big 8 wickets win over Rajasthan Royals in the last match. Manish Pandey and Vijay Shankar played match-winning knocks in that match and their form is a big relief for the team as it'll release some pressure from David Warner and Jonny Bairstow. In bowling Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, T Natrajan has been doing well and now they also have Jason Holder who picked up 3 wickets in his first match and it will boost the whole team's morale further.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the 43rd match between Kings XI Punjab and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Dubai :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 15
Kings XI Punjab won - 4
Sunrisers Hyderabad won - 11
9 - David Warner has scored fifty-plus scores in each of the last 9 IPL innings against Kings XI Punjab. He has scored total of 871 runs against them in 18 innings with 11 fifties.
16 - Mohammad Shami has taken 16 wickets at 20.38 in 10 matches in this IPL season so far.
100 - Sandeep Sharma needs 1 more wicket to complete 100 wickets in the Indian Premier League.
200 - Nicholas Pooran needs to hit 2 more sixes to complete 200 sixes in T20 cricket.
1000 - Chris Gayle needs 36 more runs to complete 1000 runs for Kings XI Punjab in IPL.
1000 - Manish Pandey needs 77 more runs to become the fourth player to score 1000 runs for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL.
