IPL 2024: Qualifier 2, SRH vs RR Stats Preview - Players approaching milestones, stats, and records

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) will take on Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the Qualifier 2 of the IPL 2024 on Friday, May 24 at MA Chidambaram Stadium, in Chennai. Both teams met each other in the 50th match of the ongoing IPL at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, in Hyderabad, where the Sunrisers defeated the Royals by just 1 run in the last ball nail-baiting thriller.

For SRH, the openers have been at their best and have been doing bulk of the scoring. Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma aggregated 533 and 470 runs, respectively, and hold an average of 44.41 and 36.15 respectively. Their strike-rates, too, have been at a staggering 199.62 and 207.04 respectively. In the bowling department, T Natarajan is the leading wicket-taker, who has picked 18 wickets in just 12 Innings so far with an average of 23.50 an economy of just 9.40. 

Moving onto RR, their skipper Sanju Samson has had a wonderful season so far, both as a captain and as a batter. Middle-order batter Riyan Parag and Samson have amassed 567 and 521 runs, respectively. They have scored runs consistently throughout the season at an average of 56.70 and 52.10 respectively. With the ball Yuzvendra Chahal is the leading wicket-taker for the Royals who has picked 18 wickets in just 14 Innings with an average of 28.44 and strike Rate of 18.0 and has conceded runs with an economy of just 9.48, also bowling at death.

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In the Eliminator, RR had a convincing victory against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, as Avesh Khan and Ravichandran Ashwin bowled some beautiful spells. The duo aggregated five wickets between them, as the off-spinner was also awarded Player of the Match for tight bowling in the middle overs. With the bat, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Parag made handy contributions, before Shimron Hetmyer and Rovman Powell added the finishing touch, as RR won the game in the 19th over with four wickets to spare.

Coming back to Cummins & Co, their last match-up came against KKR at Motera for the Qualifier 1. Rahul Tripathi 55(35) played magnificent innings which helped them to post a decent total of 159. Speaking about the bowling of Sunrisers, T Natarajan (3-0-22-1) bowled beautifully, which helped them drag the game till the 14th over. However, no support from the other end, and onslaught by Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer meant that the Knight Riders breached the total 38 balls to spare. KKR booked a place in the final, but SRH get another go against the Royals to fancy a chance for their second IPL title.

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Meanwhile, let us look at the stats ahead of the Qualifier 2, between Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals IPL 2024 clash:

SRH vs RR Head-to-Head:

1 - Jaydev Unadkat (99) needs one wicket to reach 100 wickets in IPL.

2 - Mayank Agarwal (98) needs two sixes to reach 100 sixes in the IPL.

73 - Heinrich Klaasen (927) needs another seventy-three runs to complete 1000 runs in IPL.

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3 - Ravichandran Ashwin (47) needs three catches to reach 50 catches in IPL.

26 - Aiden Markram (974) needs 26 runs to reach 1000 runs in IPL.