IPL 2022: SRH vs RR, Stats Preview – Upcoming 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.

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 IPL runs.

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

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

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

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.

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