Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in their 13th match of IPL 2020 at Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah on Saturday (October 31).
Royal Challengers Bangalore have 14 points from 12 matches and they need 2 more points to qualify for the play-offs. They have played good cricket this season but have lost their last two matches so they will look to return to winning ways.
Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers who didn't do well in the last two matches have to step up and need to score big runs and other batsmen too have to support them. In bowling Chris Morris, Yuzvendra Chahal and Washington Sundar who have been good so far need to step up once again.
On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad who have 10 points from 12 matches need to win this match to stay alive in the tournament. In the last match against Delhi Capitals they put up a good show and will look to repeat that in this match as well.
Captain David Warner has to lead from front and he has Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson and Wriddhiman Saha for support. In bowling, Rashid Khan and T Natarajan have been good so far and they also have Sandeep Sharma who has done well in this tournament as well as against Royal Challengers Bangalore over the years.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the 52nd match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Sharjah :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 15
Royal Challengers Bangalore won - 7
Sunrisers Hyderabad won - 8
21 - Sandeep Sharma has taken 21 wickets at 18.0 in 13 innings against Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL and has also dismissed Virat Kohli 6 times in T20s.
49 - Virat Kohli needs 49 more runs to go past Shane Watson's tally of 566 runs and become leading run scorer against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL.
50 - This will be 50th IPL match of Kane Williamson's career. He has scored 1494 runs at 38.30 with 13 fifties in 49 matches so far.
300 - Virat Kohli needs to hit 4 more sixes to complete 300 sixes in T20 cricket.
675 - David Warner has scored 675 runs at 48.21 in 16 innings with 1 hundred and 7 fifties against Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL.
1000 - Manish Pandey needs 18 more runs to complete 1000 runs for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL.
9000 - AB de Villiers needs 4 more runs to achieve the milestone of 9000 runs in T20 cricket.
