IPL 2018: Match 12, Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings – Statistical Preview

Chennai Super Kings will take on the Kings XI Punjab consisting of Ravichandran Ashwin and Mohit Sharma, who were part of CSK’s core team till 2015. CSK, who won their first two matches, set to miss the services of Suresh Raina who picked up an injury in their previous game. Kings XI began their campaign with a comfortable win against DD at home but lost to RCB in Bangalore after a collective batting failure.

Key stats and numbers to be looked out ahead of the KXIP’s home fixture against CSK:

0 – Chennai Super Kings are yet to feature in any Twenty20 game without Suresh Raina in the playing XI. Raina was a part of CSK’s playing XI in all the 158 matches they played in the Twenty20 format. Raina scored 683 in 20 IPL innings against KXIP at an average of 40.17.

1 – Number of IPL matches Suresh Raina missed for his teams in the IPL so far. Raina was on parental leave for one game when he led Gujarat Lions in the 2016 season. Rohit Sharma and Dinesh Karthik are the other two players who played since the first IPL season to miss only one game for their team.

3-1 – Chennai Super Kings won on three out of the four occasions they faced Kings XI Punjab at the PCA Stadium in Mohali. CSK won 10 IPL games out of the 17 they played against KXIP. The Punjab side were victorious on seven occasions including one in the Super Over.

14 – Shane Watson featured in 14 matches against KXIP in the IPL scoring 322 runs at an average of 29.77 and took 12 wickets at 24.33.

15 – Dwayne Bravo’s bowling average against KXIP in the IPL. He bagged 19 wickets against them in just 13 matches at a strike-rate of 12.3.

45.3 – MS Dhoni’s batting average against Kings XI Punjab in the IPL. He scored 453 runs against them in 17 IPL innings at an S/R of 153.04 with four fifties.

48 – Number of wickets for Imran Tahir in the 34 IPL matches. He needs two more wickets to complete 50 wickets in the league.

1948 – Karun Nair needs 42 more runs to complete 2000 runs in the Twenty20 format. He completed 8000 runs in his professional career during the previous game.