IPL 2019: Match 24, Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab – Statistical Preview

The Mumbai Indians have caught up form slowly with their bowling attack improving with every passing game. They have defeated the last year finalists Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad in their last two matches that too by big margins. They will now face the Kings XI Punjab who have won four of the six matches they played. Both the teams faced off in Mohali earlier this season with KXIP coming on top while chasing comfortably.

All the key stats and numbers ahead of the reverse fixture between Mumbai and Punjab:

4 – Number of wins for the Kings XI Punjab against the Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. No other team has defeated MI more often in the IPL at the Wankhede. Each of the last three matches between the two teams at this venue were won by batting first teams.

26 – Lasith Malinga has bagged 22 wickets in the IPL against the Kings XI; the joint 3rd most by any player. Malinga has claimed those 22 wickets from 14 matches at an average of 20 and an S/R of 15. However, Malinga has conceded 127 runs from 11 overs he bowled without picking a wicket in the last three matches against them.

55.14 – KL Rahul has a batting average of 55.14 in the IPL against the Mumbai Indians. He scored 386 runs from 9 innings against them with help of three fifties. All those three fifties came in the last four innings only.

197 – KL Rahul has scored 197 runs from his last three innings in this IPL while chasing. He scored 71*, 55 and 71* in those three innings. Kings XI won on both instances when he remained not out and lost against CSK where he got out scoring 55.

577 – Chris Gayle has aggregated 577 runs across 16 innings in the IPL against the Mumbai Indians. He averages 41.21 and has scored five fifties. Gayle scored 169 runs from five innings against MI at Wankhede at an average of 42.25 with help of fifty.

590 – Rohit Sharma’s 590 runs in the IPL against the Kings XI Punjab are the 5th most by any player against them. Rohit scored those runs across 22 innings with help of five fifties and at an average of 32.77.

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