IPL 2019: Match 47, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians – Statistical Preview

The Mumbai Indians are on the edge of making it to the playoffs with seven wins after 11 games and the 2nd best NRR among all teams. They will be up against their happy hunting team, the Kolkata Knight Riders, twice in their last three matches. KKR have suffered a downfall after winning four of their first five matches. They are currently on a six-match losing streak that includes four defeats at their fortress, the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

All the key stats and numbers ahead of a do-or-die home fixture for the Kolkata Knight Riders:

4 – The Knight Riders have lost each of their last four matches at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. They never lost more than two in a succession before this season. Their ongoing 6-match losing streak is also their 2nd worst ever. They lost eight in a row during the 2009 edition held in South Africa.

7 – Number of times the Knight Riders have been defeated by the Mumbai Indians at the Eden Gardens; the most by any team. KKR got the better of MI during the last league game of 2010 and in the opening game of 2015. Overall, MI won ten of the 12 matches they played in the IPL at the Eden Gardens. No team other than MI and KKR has won more than five games at this venue.

8 – Mumbai Indians have defeated KKR in each of their last eight matches in the IPL. The last win for the Knight Riders against MI came in the opening game of the 2015 edition.

23 – Piyush Chawla has bagged 23 wickets in the IPL against Mumbai Indians; the joint 2nd most for any player against MI. Sunil Narine claimed 19 wickets in the IPL against them in only 14 matches with two 4-wicket hauls.

98.33 – Rohit Sharma has a batting average of 98.33 in the IPL at the Eden Gardens since the start of 2015. Overall, he has scored 470 runs in 14 Twenty20 innings at this venue at an average of 42.72 with a century and three fifties.

100 – The game against KKR will be the 100th IPL game as captain for Rohit Sharma. He made his captaincy debut in a game against KKR that too at the Eden Gardens during the 2013 season.

400 – Rohit has scored 400 runs in the IPL against KKR at the Eden Gardens. Only Chris Gayle (428) aggregates more IPL runs against KKR in Kolkata. Rohit’s 400 runs came across nine innings with four fifty-plus scores.

757 – Rohit Sharma is one of the three players to aggregate 700+ runs in the IPL against the Kolkata Knight Riders. He scored 757 runs across 23 innings at an average of 44.52 against KKR with his only IPL century and four half-centuries. However, Rohit scored only 102 runs in his previous five innings against them.

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