IPL 2018: Match 29, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders – Statistical Preview

Royal Challengers Bangalore’s inconsistency in the tournament continued due to lack of a proper attack for the death overs as they witnessed CSK chase down as many as 71 runs in the last five overs. They will now face Kolkata Knight Riders, who also conceded a lot in the death overs in the game against Daredevils. The line-ups with big-hitting batsmen could well produce another high-scoring match in Bangalore if they don’t make necessary plans for their pace attack.

Key stats and numbers to be looked out ahead of RCB’s home fixture against KKR:

4-4 – Kolkata Knight Riders won four out of the eight IPL matches they played against RCB in Bangalore. They lead the overall IPL head to head record with RCB by 12-9.

13 – Number of wickets for Umesh Yadav against his former IPL team KKR. He took those wickets in just eight matches at an average of 16.76.

19 – Piyush Chawla’s 19 wickets against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL are the 2nd most for any player. Chawla took those 19 wickets in 18 IPL matches at an S/R of 19. He took ten wickets in eight matches against RCB in Chinnaswamy.

30 – Both Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers have averaged under 30 against Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL. Kohli scored 422 runs in 15 innings against KKR at an average of 26.37 with two fifties while De Villiers scored 299 runs in 16 innings at an average of 24.91 with only one fifty.

38.5 – Robin Uthappa’s batting average against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL. He scored 462 runs in 15 innings against them with help of three fifties.

48 – Number of wickets Piyush Chawla picked up in his IPL career for KKR. He needs two more wickets to become the 2nd player after Sunil Narine to bag 50 IPL wickets for KKR.

497 – Umesh Yadav needs three more wickets to complete 500 wickets in his professional career. He completed 100 wickets in his IPL career during the last match.

1969 – Runs Robin Uthappa scored in the IPL for the Knight Riders. He needs 31 more runs to become the 2nd player with 2000 IPL runs for the KKR team after Gautam Gambhir.

19995 – Runs Dinesh Karthik scored in his professional career so far. He needs five more runs to complete 20000 runs across all formats.