IPL 2022, Match 47 KKR vs RR, Stats Preview: Players records and approaching milestones

Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals will be facing each other in the 47th match of IPL 2022, to be played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Last season, KKR emerged as the runners up while RR finished seventh in the points table. So far this season, RR has won six and lost three while KKR has the opposite record by winning three and losing six. KKR is currently on a streak of five losses in a row.

The openers have been highly inconsistent for KKR this season. Shreyas Iyer has been their only consistent player at the top of the order. Andre Russell once set, has always been in a destructive mode. Umesh Yadav and Tim Southee have been the team’s best bowlers this season.

In the last match, Rajasthan Royals who are having a great season suffered a shock defeat against Mumbai Indians. They have both the Orange Cap Jos Buttler and Purple Cap Yuzvendra Chahal who are in the top spot for quite a while now. Their captain Sanju Samson and Shimron Hetmyer have also scored a lot of runs for the team, and at a quick rate. Rajasthan Royals have had valuable bowling contributions from R Ashwin, Trent Boult, and Kuldeep Sen, apart from Chahal.

Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers ahead of Match 47 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League 2022:

Head to head: Both the sides have met each other in 26 encounters in the IPL so far with KKR winning on 13 occasions and RR on 12. One match between the two teams ended in no result.

 0 – KKR has never won in this IPL season while batting first.

2 – Yuzvendra Chahal needs to take two more wickets to become the leading wicket-taker among spinners in an IPL season for Rajasthan Royals. He would then be overtaking Shreyas Gopal, who took 20 wickets for the franchise in 2019.

566 – Runs scored by Jos Buttler this season, which is the highest of any player. He is the only cricketer to score 500+ runs in IPL 2022.

 5 – Sanju Samson needs to score five more runs to reach 400 fours in T20 cricket.

5 – Jos Buttler needs to hit five more sixes to become the third England cricketer to 350 sixes in T20 cricket, after Alex Hales and Eoin Morgan.

5 – Shreyas Iyer needs to hit five more sixes to reach 100 sixes in the league.

6 – Shreyas Iyer also needs six more fours to reach 400 fours in T20 cricket.

19 – Sunil Narine needs 19 more runs to complete 1000 runs in the IPL. He will become the second player after Dwayne Bravo, with 1000+ runs and 150+ wickets in the league.