IPL 2022, Match 23, MI vs PBKS, Stats Preview: Players records and approaching milestones

Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings will be facing each other in the 23rd match of IPL 2022  at MCA International Stadium in Pune. Both teams just missed out on the playoffs of the last IPL season, with MI finishing fifth and PBKS finishing sixth in the table. This season, Mumbai Indians are yet to open their account having lost all their four games. Punjab Kings have begun the season with two wins and two losses. During this season, Mumbai Indians have lost against KKR and RCB at Pune, while Punjab Kings will play their first match on this ground.

Captain Rohit Sharma has not been in good form this season, and his opening partner Ishan Kishan also had two disappointing knocks after the fifties in the first two games. Suryakumar Yadav who returned from injury straightaway scored two fifties, and the 19-year-old Tilak Varma has begun in a promising manner. Except for an economical three-wicket haul from Jasprit Bumrah in the Mumbai Indians’ second match, the team doesn’t have much to flaunt in their bowling this season.

Despite their powerful openers in Mayank Agarwal and Shikhar Dhawan not living up to the promise, Liam Livingstone at No.4 is at the good touch, having scored two brisk fifties in a row. This season, Rahul Chahar is the pick of PBKS bowlers, taking seven wickets at an economy rate of 6.31.

Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers ahead of Match 23 between MI and PBKS in the IPL 2022:

1 – Punjab Kings have won only one out of the eight matches they played at MCA International Stadium in Pune. The only win came back in 2013, against Pune Warriors.

 1 – Rohit Sharma needs one more four to reach 500 fours in the IPL. He will become the fifth player to the landmark after Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, David Warner, and Suresh Raina.

 4 – Kieron Pollard needs four more catches to reach 100 catches for Mumbai Indians in the IPL. He will then become the first specialist fielder to take 100 catches for a single team.

4 – Jaydev Unadkat needs four wickets to reach the milestone of 200 wickets in T20 cricket.

25 – Rohit Sharma needs 25 runs to become the second Indian player to 10000 runs in T20 cricket, after Virat Kohli.

41 – Mayank Agarwal needs to score 41 runs to reach 4000 runs in T20 cricket.

50 – Ishan Kishan will be playing his 50th match for Mumbai Indians in the IPL.

89 – Shikhar Dhawan needs to score 90 runs to become the second player with 6000 runs in the IPL, after Virat Kohli.

98 – Shikhar Dhawan needs 98 runs to become the third Indian player to reach 9000 runs in T20 cricket, with the first two being Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.

39 – Suryakumar Yadav (2461) requires 39 runs to reach 2500 runs in the IPL.

4 – Jonny Bairstow (46) is four sixes away from completing 50 sixes in the league.

9 – Ishan Kishan (141) needs nine fours to reach 150 fours in the league.

1 – Mayank Agarwal (99) is one inning away from appearing in 100 IPL innings.

2 – Ishan (298) also requires just two fours to get to 300 fours in T20 cricket.

4 – Rohit (196) also needs four maximums to complete 200 sixes for MI in T20 matches.

2 – Tim David (1978) needs 22 runs to get to 2000 runs in the T20 games.

26 – Kieron Pollard (11474) requires 26 runs to complete 11500 runs in T20 cricket.

7 – Mayank (143) is seven big hits away from reaching 150 maximums in the T20 matches.

88 – Bairstow (3912) requires 88 runs to get to 4000 runs in T20 cricket.

5 – Bhanuka Rajapaksa (1995) needs five runs to get to 2000 runs in T20 cricket.