Defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) will take on Rajasthan Royals (RR) in their 11th match of IPL 2020 in Abu Dhabi on Sunday (October 25).
Mumbai Indians with 14 points from 10 matches is at top of the points table and are just one win away from qualifying for the play-offs. This year their batting as well as bowling have been top class. Quinton de Kock, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan and Kieron Pollard all are in good form with the bat and the absence of Rohit Sharma won't affect them much as everyone is in good form.
In the bowling Trent Boult has been excellent with the new ball and he is getting good support from Jasprit Bumrah and Nathan Coulter-Nile and then Bumrah does the job in death overs. In middle overs Rahul Chahar and Krunal Pandya are doing a fine job.
On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals have only 8 points from 11 matches and they need to win all their remaining matches to stay alive in the tournament. Captain Steven Smith, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes and Sanju Samson have to play big knocks and in bowling Jofra Archer is doing superb job but he also needs good support from Kartik Tyagi, Ben Stokes, Shreyas Gopal and Rahul Tewatia and the whole team has to play their best cricket to stop Mumbai Indians.
All the major stats and facts ahead of 45th match between Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians in Abu Dhabi :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 21
Rajasthan Royals won - 10
Mumbai Indians won - 11
3 - Jos Buttler has scored fifty plus scores in each of his last three innings against Mumbai Indians in IPL. His last three scores are 70, 89 and 94*.
50 - Jos Buttler needs to hit one more six to complete 50 sixes for Rajasthan Royals in IPL.
100 - Jasprit Bumrah needs to take one more wicket to achieve the milestone of 100 IPL wickets.
1000 - Krunal Pandya needs 27 more runs to complete 1000 runs in Indian Premier League.
3000 - Kieron Pollard needs to score 37 more runs to achieve the milestone of 3000 IPL runs.
4000 - Rohit Sharma needs 12 more runs to complete 4000 runs for Mumbai Indians in IPL.
9000 - Rohit Sharma is 98 runs away from achieving the milestone of 9000 runs in T20 cricket.
