IPL 2018: Match 10, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad – Statistical Preview

Sunrisers Hyderabad moves onto away leg after starting the season on high with two wins in two matches on their home turf. Kolkata Knight Riders began their season with a home win but lost to CSK in a thrilling high-scoring game. SRH need to tighten batting line-up that nearly cost them a win in their previous game. KKR have a top order that makes most of the powerplay overs but needs to strengthen their middle order with Andre Russell coming towards the end.

Key stats and numbers to be looked out ahead of the SRH’s first away match of the season:

0 – Sunrisers Hyderabad are yet to win an IPL game at the Eden Garden in Kolkata. They lost all the five games they played against KKR at this venue. The Kolkata Knight Riders lead the head to head record in the IPL against SRH with eight wins in 12 meetings.

3 – Shakib Al Hasan needs three more wickets to complete 300 wickets in the Twenty20 format. Bhuvneshwar Kumar also needs three wickets for reaching 150 T20 wickets. With the two wickets in the previous game against MI, Sandeep Sharma now needs one more wicket to complete 100 T20 wickets.

22 – Number of wickets Bhuvneshwar Kumar bagged against Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL. He is the only player with 20+ IPL wickets against KKR. Bhuvneshwar took those 22 wickets in 15 matches at an average of 17.22.

200 – The game between KKR and SRH will be Shikhar Dhawan’s 200th game in the Twenty20 format. His opening partner Wriddhiman Saha needs one more six to complete 100 T20 sixes.

387 – Runs Robin Uthappa scored against SRH in the IPL. These are the 2nd most runs by any player against SRH in the league. Uthappa scored those runs in 12 innings at an average of 32.25 with two fifties.

2917 – Runs aggregated by Chris Lynn in his Twenty20 career so far. He needs 83 more runs to complete 3000 T20 runs.

2964 – Dinesh Karthik needs 36 more runs to complete 3000 runs in the IPL. He scored 61 runs in the two matches he played for KKR this season.

3992 – Runs Shakib Al Hasan scored in his Twenty20 career so far. He needs eight more runs to complete 4000 T20 runs.