IPL 2018: Match 39, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore – Statistical Preview

The Sunrisers Hyderabad will be taking on the Royal Challengers Bangalore in a home fixture as they aim to confirm their playoffs berth. RCB, on the other hand, cannot afford a loss as they have already lost six of the nine matches. With a stingy competition at the top of the table, it will be tough for RCB to make it to the playoffs with less than 16 points in their kitty. It was RCB’s batting that hurt them the game against CSK and they will have a tough time against a much stronger SRH bowling.

Key stats and numbers that matter ahead of RCB’s do-or-die clash against SRH:

6-4 – The Sunrisers lead their head to head record against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL by 6-4 that includes a Super Over win. Their dominance extends to 4-1 when it comes to the matches in Hyderabad.

8.17 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar has an economy rate of 8.17 against the Royal Challengers. This is Bhuvi’s worst economy against any opposition in the Twenty20 format. (Min: 10 overs) He picked 11 wickets against RCB in 12 matches at an average of 24.36.

16 – Number of wickets Sandeep Sharma has against RCB in the IPL. He bagged those 16 wickets in just nine matches at an average of 16.43.

17.12 – Manish Pandey’s batting average against Bangalore in the IPL. He has scored just 137 runs in the nine innings against RCB with only one fifty.

399 – Shikhar Dhawan scored 399 runs against RCB in the 14 IPL innings. He has scored those runs at an average of 36.27 with help of four fifties.

434 – Virat Kohli scored 434 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad in nine IPL innings at an average of 62 with four fifties. He is the only player to score 400+ IPL runs against SRH. AB de Villiers also scored 313 runs against SRH in eight IPL innings at an average of 44.71 with two fifties.

694 – Number of fours Virat Kohli has smashed in his Twenty20 career. He needs six more fours to become the 8th player and the 2nd Indian after Gautam Gambhir (747) to hit 700 fours in this format.

12999 – Yusuf Pathan needs one more run to complete 13000 runs in his professional career. He needed 28 runs ahead of the previous game but the SRH all-rounder remained unbeaten on 27.

15943 – Shakib Al Hasan needs 57 more runs to complete 16000 runs in his professional cricketing career.