IPL 2018: Match 34, Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians – Statistical Preview

The defending champions Mumbai Indians played themselves down in the tournament losing six out of the eight matches and are on the brink of being eliminated from the league stage. They now need to win their remaining six matches to qualify for the playoffs or at least five wins with other results going their way. The game will be Kings XI Punjab’s first in eight days after their loss against SRH in a low scoring encounter. This match will be first of the four home matches for Kings XI at the Holkar Stadium in Indore.

Key stats and numbers ahead of Mumbai Indians’ must-win game against the Kings XI:

3 – Number of ducks Ishan Kishan has bagged in the IPL 2018 so far. He is the 2nd Mumbai Indians player to bag as many as three ducks in an IPL season. Harbhajan Singh had three ducks in the 2012 IPL edition while leading the MI franchise.

10-10 – The head to head record between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab is currently tied at 10-10. The two teams faced off in Indore during the previous edition where MI chased down a target of 199 with 27 balls to spare.

22 – Number of wickets Mohit Sharma has bagged in the IPL against Mumbai Indians thus far. Only Dwayne Bravo (27) picked up more wickets against MI in the IPL than Mohit. He took those 22 wickets in 14 matches at an average of 20.13. The KXIP skipper Ravichandran Ashwin took only 14 wickets in 20 IPL matches against MI.

42.63 – Chris Gayle’s batting average in the IPL against Mumbai Indians. He scored 469 runs in 13 IPL innings against MI with four fifties but has a strike rate of only 129.20.

118 – The T20 match in Indore witnessed the MI skipper Rohit Sharma record a 34-ball century against Sri Lanka which is the joint fastest in the T20I cricket. He scored 118 in that game which is the highest individual T20 score at this venue.

299 – Number of sixes Rohit Sharma has hit thus far in his Twenty20 career. He needs one more six to become the first Indian and 7th player overall to hit 300 sixes in Twenty20 cricket.

528 – Runs Rohit Sharma has scored against Kings XI Punjab in the IPL thus far. He scored those 528 runs in 19 IPL innings against them at an average of 33 with five fifties.

944 – Yuvraj Singh needs 56 more runs to complete 1000 runs for KXIP in the IPL. He will be the 6th player to score 1000 IPL runs for KXIP. Yuvraj needs 64 more runs to complete 26000 runs in his professional career.

7935 – Runs Mayank Agarwal has scored in professional cricket so far. He needs 65 more runs to complete 8000 runs across all formats.