IPL 2018: Match 21, Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians – Statistical Preview

Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians have lost three games apiece and faced issues due to their key players’ unavailability and fitness. RR defeated DD and RCB in successive matches before they lost to KKR and CSK by big margins. Mumbai lost their first three games of the season by one wicket or on the last ball of the game while defending totals. However, they bounced back strongly against RCB with a big 46-run win that will boost their confidence ahead of the away fixture against RR.

Key stats and numbers to be looked out ahead of the crucial game between RR and MI:

5 – Number of fifties for Sanju Samson against the Mumbai Indians in the T20 format. He scored 362 runs against them in 12 innings at an average of 30.16. He scored three fifties in 10 IPL innings against them and two more fifties in the two CLT20 innings.

10-6 – Mumbai Indians lead the head to head record in the IPL against Rajasthan Royals by 10-6 margin. However, they lost three out of the five matches they played against the Royals in Jaipur.

64 – Runs Rohit Sharma scored against Royals in the four Twenty20 innings in Jaipur. He averages 16 against them at this venue with the best score of 44. Pollard too scored only 72 runs in four T20 innings at an average of 18.

25.18 – Rohit Sharma’s batting average against Rajasthan Royals in the IPL. He scored 403 runs in 16 innings against them with two fifties.

100 – The game between RR and MI will be the 100th game of Hardik Pandya’s Twenty20 career.

149 – Number of sixes Kieron Pollard hit in the IPL. He needs to hit one more six to become the 8th player to hit 150 IPL sixes.

297 – Rohit Sharma needs three more sixes to complete 300 sixes in the Twenty20 format. He will become the first Indian and the 7th player overall to complete 300 sixes in this format.

476 – Runs Ajinkya Rahane scored against Mumbai Indians in the IPL. He scored those runs in just 13 innings at an average of 43.27 with four fifties.

936 – Runs Sanju Samson scored in the IPL for Rajasthan Royals. He needs 64 more runs to become the 5th player with 1000 IPL runs for RR.