IPL 2021, Match 27: MI vs CSK, Stats Preview: Player records and approaching milestones

The IPL’s biggest rivals will knock horns on Saturday night at Delhi. While CSK have a much-improved season with 5 wins and 2 losses so far, the defending champions are at a slightly shaky position at 3-3 in wins and losses. Both the teams chased 172 in 18.3 overs in their last game, losing three wickets – which might be an interesting time to revive the rivalry again. It will also be a clash of the Chahar brothers at their peak, with Deepak being Chennai’s leading wicket-taker and Rahul being Mumbai’s leading wicket-taker of this season so far.

CSK’s openers Faf du Plessis and Ruturaj Gaikwad are in supreme form, while Mumbai Indians have their skipper Rohit Sharma who scored the most runs for them, and Suryakumar Yadav who is batting more aggressively of late. With so many impactful players, the ‘El Classico of IPL’ promises to be a great contest.

Here’s a list of the numbers ahead of the CSK vs MI IPL clash

1 – Krunal Pandya needs 1 more wicket to reach 50 wickets for Mumbai Indians in IPL. He will become the second Mumbai Indians player to score 1000+ runs and take 50+ wickets for Mumbai Indians, after Kieron Pollard.

200 – Suresh Raina will be playing his 200^th IPL match, thus becoming the fourth player to do it. The first three players are MS Dhoni, Rohit Sharma, and Dinesh Karthik.

350 – Rohit Sharma will become the first Indian to play 350 T20 matches. Rohit’s 6 tons are the most by an Indian and his 9280 runs are the second-most by an Indian in the T20 format.

72 – If captain Rohit Sharma wins the match for Mumbai Indians, it will be his 72^nd win as a captain in IPL. This will make him the second most successful captain in the IPL, overtaking Gautam Gambhir (71 wins). Only MS Dhoni won more matches as the captain in IPL (115 matches).

50 – Deepak Chahar who will be playing his 50^th IPL match for Chennai Super Kings, will become the first specialist pace bowler to play 50 matches for CSK.

2 – Ruturaj Gaikwad and Faf du Plessis shared two-century stands within just three matches for Chennai Super Kings. They are the first-ever pair to share multiple century partnerships for CSK in an IPL season.

2012 – The only time Chennai Super Kings ever lost an IPL match at Delhi while batting second.

2 – Sixes required for Ravindra Jadeja to reach 50 IPL sixes for Chennai Super Kings. He will be the fifth Indian player to do it for CSK after MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, M Vijay, and Ambati Rayudu.

1 – Quinton de Kock needs to hit at least one-six to become the second overseas player to hit 50 sixes for Mumbai Indians in the IPL, after Kieron Pollard.

5 – Chennai Super Kings have won 5 of their last 6 IPL matches at Delhi, with the only loss coming in the 2018 season.