IPL 2022, Match 5 SRH vs RR, Stats Preview: Players records and approaching milestones

Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals will face each other in the 6th match of IPL 2022, scheduled on Wednesday March 30, 2022 at the MCA International Stadium in Pune. Both the teams had an unsatisfactory IPL 2021, finishing in the bottom two positions. While Rajasthan Royals finished at seventh place with 5 wins, Sunrisers Hyderabad finished at eighth with just 3 wins.

Rajasthan Royals have retained three batters at the top of the order with Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal and captain Sanju Samson. Another lethal player in the top-order is Devdutt Padikkal, who proved his talent in the IPL after breaking records in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. This follows the big-hitting players in Shimron Hetmyer and Riyan Parag.

The bowling attack has two very experienced Indian spinners in R Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal. Their pace bowling might be an area of concern with main players being Trent Boult and Prasidh Krishna.

SRH’s batting line-up doesn’t look like completed without David Warner. However, they have bought Rahul Tripathi, a consistent performer over the years. They also have some quality overseas batting options in captain Kane Williamson, Nicholas Pooran, Aiden Markram and Glenn Phillips in the middle order. The problem is, obviously, they can’t be playing all of them at the same time.

So they might not play Glenn Phillips, who doesn’t have a decent record on Asian soil. The bowling line-up of SRH is a mix of the experience of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Washington Sundar, along with the exciting talents of T Natarajan and Umran Malik. Both the teams will be having the same skippers from last season in the form of Kane Williamson and Sanju Samson for SRH and RR, respectively.

Here’s a look at some of the important stats and numbers ahead of Match 5 between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League 2022:

Head to head: SRH and RR have faced each other in 15 IPL matches, with SRH winning 8 and RR winning 7. Since 2018, SRH have an edge by winning 5 matches and losing 3. Interestingly, both the teams met on the same date March 29 in 2019, and Sanju Samson had smashed a century on that night.

2 – Rahul Tripathi (48) needs two sixes to complete 50 sixes in the IPL.

5 – Devdutt Padikkal (95) is five fours away from completing the landmark of 100 fours in the IPL.

32 – Jos Buttler (1968) requires 32 runs to reach 2000 runs.

2 – Shreyas Gopal (48) requires two scalps to reach 50 wickets in the league.

2 – Nathan Coulter-Nile (48) needs two wickets to get to 50 wickets in the IPL.

5 – R Ashwin (145) needs five scalps to get to the landmark of 150 wickets.

4 – Abdul Samad (46) needs four maximums to complete 50 sixes in T20s.

3 – Yuzvendra Chahal (247) needs three scalps to complete 250 wickets in T20s.

5 – Nicholas Pooran (295) requires five sixes to reach the milestone of 300 sixes in the T20s.

6 – Buttler (194) is six fours away from completing 200 fours in the league.

6 – Nicholas Pooran (44) is six big hits away from reaching the milestone of 50 maximums.

8 – Padikkal (192) needs eight fours to reach 200 fours in T20 matches.

100 – Sanju Samson will be playing his 100th T20 match for Rajasthan Royals, becoming only the second player to feature in 100 T20s for RR, after Ajinkya Rahane.

615 – Sanju Samson scored the most runs by any player against the Sunrisers Hyderabad, by scoring 615 runs at an average of nearly 44 against them.

17 – Total wickets taken by Yuzvendra Chahal against SRH, which is the highest by any spinner against them. Only Dwayne Bravo (21) has more wickets against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

8 – Fours needed by Devdutt Padikkal to reach 200 fours in T20 cricket.

13 – Wickets taken by Bhuvneshwar Kumar in 15 innings, at an economy rate of 7.21 at the MCA Stadium at Pune.