Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) will take on Rajasthan Royals (RR) in their 13th match of IPL 2020 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Friday.
Kings XI Punjab with 12 points from 12 matches is at fourth position in the points table and are on a 5-match winning streak and one more win will take them closer to play-offs so they will look to give their best. As usual the batting line-up of KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle and Nicholas Pooran has to step up.
KXIP will hope all-rounder Glenn Maxwell too will come good and then in the bowling, inform Mohammad Shami, Chris Jordan and Arshdeep Singh need to do the job with their pace as the spinners Ravi Bishnoi and Murugan Ashwin are doing well.
On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals have 10 points from 12 matches and are sitting at seventh position and they too need to win this match to stay in the race of play-offs. In the last match they beat Mumbai Indians so they have the momentum with them.
The likes of Ben Stokes, Sanju Samson, Steve Smith and Jos Buttler have to score big runs and then in bowling, Jofra Archer who has been doing well will need good support from other bowlers like Kartik Tyagi, Shreyas Gopal and Rahul Tewatia.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the 50th match between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals in Abu Dhabi :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 20
Kings XI Punjab won - 9
Rajasthan Royals won - 11
57.33 - KL Rahul's batting average against Rajasthan Royals in IPL. He has scored 344 runs at 57.33 in 8 innings with 4 fifties against RR in IPL.
200 - Nicholas Pooran is just 2 hits away from completing 200 sixes in T20 cricket.
223 - Rajasthan Royals chased down 223 runs in the first meeting against Kings XI Punjab in Sharjah in this IPL.
464 - Sanju Samson has scored 464 runs at 38.56 in 15 innings with 2 fifties against Kings XI Punjab in IPL.
1000 - Chris Gayle needs to hit 7 more sixes to achieve the unique milestone of 1000 sixes in T20 cricket.
3000 - Nicholas Pooran needs to score 45 more runs to achieve the milestone of 3000 runs in T20 cricket.
