IPL 2022, Match 35 KKR vs GT, Stats Preview: Players records and approaching milestones

Kolkata Knight Riders and Gujarat Titans will be facing each other in the 35th match of IPL 2022, to be played at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. While KKR finished as the runners-up last season, GT are playing in their maiden IPL season. Gujarat Titans are on the top of the table with five wins and only one loss, while Kolkata Knight Riders are seventh in the points table with three wins and four losses. KKR have played only one match at DY Patil Stadium this season, and they have lost to RCB in a close match. On the other hand, GT has played two matches at DY Patil Stadium, having won one match and losing one match.

KKR had massive opening issues, until the last match where Aaron Finch scored a 28-ball 58 for them. In the middle-order, Shreyas Iyer and Nitish Rana have found their mojo, and Andre Russell is highly destructive once he got going. With the ball, Umesh Yadav was brilliant as a wicket-taker, as was Sunil Narine in controlling the run flow.

Gujarat Titans are the most consistent team of the season so far, having lost only one match. However, their openers haven’t been in good form, barring a couple of knocks from Shubman Gill within their first three matches. Their middle-order is unmatched with the skipper Hardik Pandya scoring plenty of runs alongside the destructive David Miller. Season debutant Abhinav Manohar has also begun in a good manner. Mohammed Shami, Lockie Ferguson, and Rashid Khan ensured that their heavy investment in bowling options yielded the result needed.

Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers ahead of Match 35 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League 2022:

1 – David Miller needs one more six to reach 100 sixes in the IPL. He will become the third South African to hit a century of sixes in the league, after AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis.

1 – Rashid Khan needs one more wicket to reach 100 wickets in the IPL, and become the first Afghanistan player to do it.

1 – Hardik Pandya needs one more catch to reach 100 catches in T20 cricket.

1 – Sunil Narine needs one more wicket to reach 150 wickets in the IPL. He will hence become the first overseas spinner to the milestone.

2 – Nitish Rana needs to hit two more sixes to reach 100 sixes in the IPL. If he reaches the milestone in this match, he will become the fourth-fastest Indian to 100 IPL sixes, in 79 innings. The top-three fastest Indians to the milestone are Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul and Yuvraj Singh.

4 – Hardik Pandya needs four more wickets to reach 50 wickets in the IPL. He will become only the fourth player with 1000+ runs, 50+ wickets and 50+ catches in the league. The other three players are Ravindra Jadeja, Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo.

6 – Shreyas Iyer needs six more sixes to reach 100 sixes in the IPL.

39 – Nitish Rana needs to score 39 more runs to reach 1000 runs in the IPL.

43 – Wriddhiman Saha needs 43 more runs to reach 500 runs against KKR in the IPL.

2 – Venkatesh Iyer (48) is two boundaries short of completing 50 fours in the league.

24 – Narine (976) requires 24 runs to get to 1000 runs in the tournament.

1 – Shubman Gill (199) is one four away from completing 200 fours in the T20 matches.

21 – Venkatesh also needs 21 runs to complete 500 IPL runs.

9 – Venkatesh (1491) requires nine runs to get to 1500 runs in the T20 games.

4 – Vijay Shankar (46) requires four fours to complete 50 fours in the league.

2 – Venkatesh (148) also needs two fours to reach 150 fours in the T20 games.

2 – Aaron Finch (148) requires two grabs to complete 150 catches in the T20 matches.