IPL 2018: Match 16, Kings XI Punjab vs Sunrisers Hyderabad – Statistical Preview

Sunrisers Hyderabad are the only team to be undefeated in the 11th edition of the IPL as they won all the three games they played so far. Kings XI Punjab, on the other hand, won both their games at home but lost the away game against RCB. Punjab relies on the top orders’ exploits while SRH’s wins have come with the help of their bowling attack’s performances. The Kings will need to sort out their middle order to have a chance against SRH whom they have not defeated in the last three seasons.

Key stats and numbers to be looked out ahead of the key battle at the PCA Stadium in Mohali:

4 – Sunrisers Hyderabad won all the four IPL games they played against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali. They have an exceptional record against the KXIP in the IPL winning eight out of their ten meetings. SRH won all the six games they played against KXIP since the start of 2015.

5 – Kane Williamson became the 5th captain to win each of his first three games in the IPL. MS Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma and George Bailey are the other four captains with this feat.

12 – Mohit Sharma took 12 wickets in ten games against SRH in the IPL. However, he conceded runs at an economy rate of 9.1.

20 – Number of wickets for Bhuvneshwar Kumar against Kings XI Punjab in the IPL. He took those wickets in just 11 games at an average of 14.5 with help of a 5-wicket haul.

Bhuvneshwar took nine wickets in the five IPL games against them in Mohali. No other bowler took more IPL wickets against the home team in Mohali.

200 – The game between KXIP and SRH will be the 200th game of Ravichandran Ashwin’s Twenty20 career.

299 – Wickets Shakib Al Hasan took in the Twenty20 format so far. He needs one more wicket to complete 300 T20 wickets. Shakib completed 4000 T20 runs during their previous game against KKR.

530 – Runs Shikhar Dhawan scored against Kings XI Punjab in the IPL. He scored those runs in 18 innings at an average of 31.17 with four fifties.

930 – Yuvraj Singh needs 70 more runs to become the 6th player to complete 1000 IPL runs for KXIP. He needs 78 more runs to complete 26000 runs in professional cricket.

1977 – Karun Nair needs 23 more runs to complete 2000 runs in T20 format. He scored 108 runs in three games in this tournament so far with 25+ in all three innings.