IPL 2024: Match 52, RCB vs GT - Stats Preview of Players' Records and Approaching Milestones

Royal Challengers Bengaluru will take on Gujarat Titans in match 52 of the IPL 2024, at the M. Chinnaswamy International Stadium, in Bengaluru, on Saturday, May 4. In the ongoing tournament, the Royal Challengers Bengaluru have started the season slowly but they came to the winning momentum in the last two matches. Royal Challengers Bengaluru have won three matches and lost seven matches so far in this ongoing tournament. They are currently in the bottom place on the IPL points table.

Thus, the Challengers would like to continue their winning momentum. On the other hand, the Gujarat Titans have been victorious in four matches and also have ended up on the losing side in six games. At this moment, they are in the seventh spot in the points table. Thus, the visitors of the upcoming fixture would like to come back to winning momentum. Titans would like to take revenge for the last match of these two teams held in Narendra Modi International Stadium, Ahmedabad. This will be an important game for both teams concerning the future of the tournament.

Speaking about the last game of the Challengers, Will Jacks 100*(41) played magnificent innings and scored his first IPL to help the Challengers to chase the target within 16 overs. Virat Kohli 70*(44) played fantastic innings and stayed till the end, These two stitched a superb partnership of 166 off just 73 deliveries which helped Challengers to improve NRR by chasing target early. Speaking about the bowling of the Challengers, Swapnil Singh (3-0-23-1) bowled beautifully which helped the Challengers to restrict Titans to just 200. Mohammed Siraj (4-0-34-1) also bowled superbly and gave excellent support to Swapnil.

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All other bowlers also gave good support to these two. Challengers will hope that all these will continue their good form. Now regarding Titans' last IPL 2024 game, Sai Sudharsan 84*(49) played magnificent innings which helped the Titans to post a decent total of 200. Shahrukh Khan 58(30) played fantastic innings and gave excellent support to Sai Sudharsan. These two stitched a superb partnership of 86 off just 45 deliveries which helped Titans to post a decent good total.

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When it comes to the bowling unit of GT, all the bowlers from Titans were expensive as all bowlers conceded runs above the economy rate of 10. As a result, the Challengers managed to chase a huge total of 201 against Titans in the previous outing. Gujarat will hope that all these will continue their good form and good support from bowlers.

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Meanwhile, let us have a look into the stats and numbers ahead of RCB vs GT IPL 2024 clash:

RCB vs GT Head-to-Head: RCB and GT have met each other 4 times in the tournament’s history, with the Challengers winning on two occasions and the Titans clinching two victories.

6 - Virat Kohli (12494) is six runs away from getting to 12,500 T20 runs.

79 - Faf du Plessis (4421) needs another seventy-nine runs to reach 4500 runs in IPL.

25 - Faf du Plessis (9975) needs twenty-five more runs to complete a landmark 10,000 runs in T20s.

4 - Faf du Plessis (896) needs four more fours to get to 900 fours in T20s. 

4 - Glenn Maxwell (46) needs four more catches to reach 50 catches in the Indian Premier League.

22 - Rahul Tewatia (978) needs another twenty-two runs to reach the landmark of 1000 runs in the IPL.

9 - Matthew Wade (441) needs another nine fours to reach 450 fours in T20s.

5 - Joshua Little (145) needs five scalps to reach the landmark of 150 wickets in the T20s.