IPL 2018: Match 13, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils – Statistical Preview

Both Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils have similar starts to their IPL campaigns with two losses in their first three games. KKR had winning start to the season before they lost defending a 200+ total against CSK and a home defeat to SRH on Saturday. Daredevils, led by Gautam Gambhir, the former KKR skipper, lost their first two games before a record run-chase at the Wankhede to open their account on points tally.

Key stats and numbers to be looked out ahead of the crucial game between KKR and DD:

6-1 – KKR’s win-loss record against Delhi Daredevils at the Eden Garden in Kolkata. DD’s lone win against KKR in Kolkata came in the 2012 season. KKR leads the IPL head to head against DD by 12-8.

18 – Piyush Chawla bagged 18 wickets against DD in the IPL which are the joint 2nd most for any player. Chawla took those wickets in 17 games including a 4-wicket haul. Sunil Narine took 14 IPL wickets against DD in 11 matches including a 4-wicket haul.

200 – The game between KKR and DD will be Glenn Maxwell’s 200th match in the T20 format. It will also be the 50th T20 game in Vijay Shankar’s career.

34.1 – Dinesh Karthik’s batting average against DD in the IPL. He scored 341 runs against them in 10 IPL innings with three fifties.

36.75 – Gautam Gambhir scored 147 runs in five innings at 36.75 against KKR. He faced his former team while playing for DD in the first three IPL seasons.

Gambhir’s 560 runs in the IPL games between DD and KKR are the most for any player. Robin Uthappa (317) is the only other player with 300 runs in the DD-KKR IPL games.

551 – Robin Uthappa is one of the four players to score 500 IPL runs against Delhi Daredevils. He scored 551 runs against DD in 19 innings at an average of 32.41 with four fifties.

2966 – Runs Chris Lynn scored in his Twenty20 career so far. He needs 34 more runs to complete 3000 T20 runs.

2993 – Dinesh Karthik needs seven more runs to complete 3000 runs in the IPL. He scored 25+ runs in each of the three innings in this IPL.