IPL 2018: Match 6, Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils – Statistical Preview

The revamped Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Daredevils squads didn’t have greatest of starts to their campaigns as both failed to put a good fight in their opening games. Delhi was thumped down by KL Rahul’s fastest IPL fifty while RR had their batting decimated by the SRH bowlers in their first match. Now the focus shifts to Jaipur which will be hosting an IPL game for the first time since 2014. RR’s last appearance at their fortress came during the 2013 edition of the CLT20.

Key stats and numbers to be looked out ahead of RR’s first home game in more than four years:

10-6 – Rajasthan Royals have a clear dominance over Delhi Daredevils as they won 10 out of the 16 meetings in the IPL. RR defeated DD on three out of four IPL meetings at their home venue in Jaipur.

12 – Rajasthan Royals won each of their last 12 Twenty20 games they played at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium. They played eight IPL games in the 2013 season and four games in the 2013 CLT20 and won all of them. They didn’t feature in any matches at this venue in 2014 and 2015.

RR has a win percentage of 76.31 at this venue as they won 29 out of the 38 Twenty20 games they played. This is the best win % in the Twenty20 format for any team at a home venue.

26 – Number of wickets Amit Mishra bagged in the IPL against Rajasthan Royals. No other bowler took more than 14 wickets against the Royals in the league. Mishra took those wickets in 16 games at an average of 16.38.

63.2 – Ajinkya Rahane’s batting average against Delhi Daredevils in the IPL. He scored 632 runs against DD in 15 innings at an S/R of 131.39 with help of six fifties. Only Rohit Sharma (670) and Virat Kohli (661) scored more runs in the IPL than Rahane against DD.

Rahane scored 449 of those runs while playing for Rajasthan Royals. He scored 449 runs at an average of 74.83 with four fifties in the RR-DD IPL matches. No other player scored more than 300 runs in the RR-DD IPL meetings.

150 – The RR-DD game will be the 150th match in Gautam Gambhir’s IPL career. He will become the 8th player to complete 150 appearances in the IPL.

423 – Gautam Gambhir’s 423 runs against RR in the IPL are the 3rd most runs for any player. Only AB de Villiers (485) and Suresh Raina (471) scored more than Gambhir against RR in the league.