IPL2022: RR vs KKR Match Preview- All you need to know

IPL2022: Here are all the stats you need to know as Rajasthan Royals will go against Kolkata Knight Riders

IPL2022: Both teams will look to enter in the top 4 as they will play aganist each other at barbourne stadium

Both teams have 6 points each, and both teams have struggled in death bowling. They have averaged just one wicket per innings in this phase, and their economy rates are nearly the same with KKR (12.97) faring marginally worse than Royals (12.78).

RR have also leaked too many runs in the death. The middle overs have been ruled by Yuzvendra Chahal who has the purple cap and has been at the top of his game. In their latest defeat to Gujarat Titans, RR sorely missed Trent Boult who was out with a niggle. 

Today, Death bowlers do not want to make mistakes as both teams have power hitters in their teams towards the end, for RR Shimron Hetmyer (262.00) has the best strike rate of any batter who has faced at least 20 balls in this phase this season, while for KKR Andre Russell (196.55) isn’t too far behind.

 PITCH REPORT:

On this pitch, we have seen many high-scoring games and we can surely witness one more tonight. Run-chases at the Brabourne Stadium have been quite comfortable, with plenty of runs coming in them and dew coming in the later stage making chasing easy

TACTICS:

RR–  Ashwin and Chahal have the upper hand over Aaron Finch and Nitish Rana. Ashwin may be given the ball in the powerplay, while holding Chahal back for when Rana comes to the middle, with the legspinner getting the middle-order batter 4 times. Ashwin also has a terrific record against Aaron Finch(22 runs conceded in 27 balls). Rana averages just 14 against Chahal, striking at 109.80. They would hope Trent Boult is fit to play and makes his way back into the XI in place of James Neesham.

KKR- Sam Billings missed KKR’s last match against Sunrisers Hyderabad with an illness. He should have recovered by now, but the team management will face a difficult decision over whether to pick him or Aaron Finch, who has only played the one game so far for his new franchise.

HEAD TO HEAD:

Overall matches- 25

RR won- 11

KKR won- 13

STATS:

 1)The Brabourne Stadium has been the quickest-scoring venue of IPL 2022, with seven matches at the ground producing an overall run rate of 9.43

2)Samson is 49 runs away from the 5000 mark in T20 cricket.

3)After scores of 55 & 30 to start the season, Samson has scored 32 runs in the next 3 innings.

4)Andre Russell has the highest strike rate for anyone with over 1500 IPL runs. He strikes at 178.61 with 1879 runs.

POSSIBLE PLAYING XI:

RR: Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (c & wk), Rassie van der Dussen, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Riyan Parag, Trent Boult, Kuldeep Sen, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal

KKR: Aaron Finch, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Sheldon Jackson (wk), Pat Cummins, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Aman Hakim Khan, Varun Chakravarthy