IPL 2019: Match 21, Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders – Statistical Preview

The Kolkata Knight Riders are looking a team to beat this season with Andre Russell providing the cushion of turning the games out of nowhere. The KKR team won three of their four matches and the only loss came against Delhi Capitals that too in the Super Over. They will now travel to Jaipur to lock horns with the Rajasthan Royals who won only one of their four matches. The Royals began with three consecutive close defeats before winning one against the RCB.

All the key stats and numbers ahead of the crucial game for the Rajasthan Royals against the KKR:

3 – The Kolkata Knight Riders defeated the Rajasthan Royals three times in three meetings during the 2018 IPL. KKR won comfortably while chasing twice in the league stage against the Royals and defeated them by 25 runs in the Eliminator game.

4 – Andre Russell won the Player of the Match award in KKR’s previous four victories in the IPL. He scored 49* (25) during the last season’s Eliminator against Rajasthan Royals. Russell scored 49* (19), 48 (17) and 48* (13) respectively against SRH, KXIP and RCB in this season when KKR ended up as the winning team.

9.89 – Shreyas Gopal has a bowling average of 9.89 in the Twenty20 matches in 2019. He bowled 32.4 overs in the 12 T20s he played by picking up 19 wickets. He picked up a 4-wicket haul and a 5-wicket haul in those 12 games.

10.16 – Kuldeep Yadav picked up six wickets in the three matches he played against the Rajasthan Royals during the 2018 IPL. He had an average of 10.16 in those three games where he conceded runs at an economy of 5.08.

17 – Number of wickets for Piyush Chawla in the IPL against the Rajasthan Royals which are the 2nd most for any player behind the 27 wickets by Amit Mishra. Chawla picked up those 17 wickets in the 15 IPL matches against RR at an average of 23.23.

25.82 – Ajinkya Rahane’s batting average in the IPL against the Kolkata Knight Riders. In the 17 IPL innings he batted against KKR, Rahane scored 439 runs with only two fifties. Sanju Samson also has a low average of 27.54 against KKR having scored 303 runs in 11 innings with two fifties.

53 – Number of sixes Andre Russell has hit in the Twenty20s in 2019 thus far. He batted in 21 T20 innings this year scoring 556 runs at an average of 37.06 and an S/R of 186.57. Shane Watson’s 42 sixes are the 2nd most number of sixes by any player in T20s this year.

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