IPL 2019: Match 2, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad – Statistical Preview

The Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders will lock horns in the first evening game of the season on Sunday. The Sunrisers, led by Kane Williamson yet again, will be boosted by the return of David Warner. The Dinesh Karthik-led Knight Riders have roped in quite a few exciting overseas players. The Sunrisers defeated Kolkata at the Eden Gardens twice in the previous edition including the Qualifier game.

All the key stats and numbers ahead of their first game of the season at the Eden Gardens:

2 – Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Kolkata Knight Riders twice in two games in 2018 season at the Eden Gardens. SRH lost all the five IPL games they played in Kolkata till 2017.

4-4 – Win-loss record of the chasing teams during the night matches at the Eden Gardens during IPL 2018. The averages first innings total at this venue read 173.25 across those eight matches.

25 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the only player to bag more than 20 wickets in the IPL against the Knight Riders. He has an average of 19.04 and picked up wickets at a SR of 15.6 against KKR.

17.08 – Bhuvneshwar has a bowling average of 17.08 in the Twenty20 format at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. He claimed 12 wickets from seven T20s he played there at a SR of 13.1. The pacer has ten wickets from his previous five matches against KKR in Kolkata.

34.8 – Yusuf Pathan’s batting average of 34.8 in Twenty20 cricket at the Eden Gardens is the best for any player. (Min: 20+ innings) Yusuf scored 870 runs from 41 T20 innings with the help of three fifties. He scored runs at an impressive strike-rate of 150.51.

Here is SRH squad for IPL 2019:

96 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar needs four more wickets for 100 wickets in the IPL for the Sunrisers Hyderabad. No other player has even bagged 50 wickets for SRH across IPL and CLT20.

437 – Robin Uthappa’s 437 in the IPL against Sunrisers are the 2nd most by any player. Virat Kohli’s 485 runs are the most in the league history against SRH. Uthappa scored those runs from 15 innings at an average of 29.13 with two fifties.

677 – David Warner has 677 runs from only 19 IPL matches against the Knight Riders. He smashed two centuries and two fifties against KKR and has a batting average of 39.82. Only Rohit Sharma (757) and Suresh Raina (746) have scored more IPL runs than Warner against KKR.

His team-mate Wriddhiman Saha has 420 runs at an average of 35 from 13 innings against KKR including an unbeaten 115.

Here is the KKR squad for IPL 2019:

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