IPL 2020: Eliminator, SRH vs RCB – Statistical Preview

Sunrisers Hyderabad will be taking on Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Eliminator having qualified by defeating the three of the top four league phase teams in their last three matches. Bangalore, on the other hand, is currently on a 4-match losing streak and hope to convert it into a 3-match winning spree for achieving their maiden title. Injuries to the pacers are likely to affect the combination of RCB while Sunrisers have done well to overcome from regular injury blows they suffered in the ongoing tournament.

Here are all the key stats and numbers ahead of the Eliminator in Abu Dhabi between SRH and RCB:

1-3 – Sunrisers Hyderabad has got a win-loss record of 1-3 while playing in the Eliminator match in the IPL. They crashed out of the tournament while playing the Eliminator game during 2013, 2017 and 2019 seasons. SRH won the Eliminator in the 2016 season where they ended up as the title winners.

2-5 – Royal Challengers Bangalore have won only two of their last seven matches in the league phase. All those seven matches were won by the teams bowling first that too by a margin of five and more wickets.

7 – Sandeep Sharma has claimed the wicket of Virat Kohli on as many as seven instances in the IPL. These are the joint-most number of times a bowler has dismissed any batsman in the history of IPL. Kohli has faced 50 deliveries in the bowling of Sandeep across 12 IPL innings and managed to score 69 runs at a strike rate of 138.

37.83 – AB de Villiers has a batting average of 37.83 while batting in the playoff/knockout matches in the IPL. Across eight such matches, De Villiers aggregated 227 runs which came at a strike rate of 149.34 and with help of two fifties.

75.67 – David Warner has a batting average of 75.67 in the IPL playoffs for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Warner scored 227 runs across four playoff games for SRH at a strike rate of 142.77 and with help of two fifties. Warner had single digits scores in three playoff/knockout matches he appeared for Delhi Daredevils.

297 – Virat Kohli is only three sixes away from completing 300 sixes in the Twenty20 format. Kohli has struck 201 of those 297 for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL. His opposite number, David Warner (195) is five sixes away from becoming the first Australian to hit 200 IPL sixes.

1979 – Runs Wriddhiman Saha has aggregated in his 124-match IPL career thus far. Saha needs 21 more runs to become the 38th player with 2000 runs in the IPL. The SRH vs RCB game will be the 100th innings with the bat for Wriddhiman Saha.

The RCB opener Aaron Finch (1973) is also inching close to 2000 runs in the IPL as he needs 27 more runs for the milestone. However, Finch has been dropped in the favour of Joshua Phillipe during the last three games.