IPL 2022: RCB vs RR, Stats Preview – Upcoming records and approaching milestones

Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals will be facing each other in the 39th match of IPL 2022, to be played at MCA International Stadium in Pune. Last season, RCB reached the eliminator while RR finished seventh. So far this season, both RR and RCB are tied with five wins and ten points, while RCB has played one extra match. Both teams are playing their second match in Pune this season, with RCB defeating MI and RR defeating SRH at this ground earlier. The teams are facing each other a second time this season, with RCB defeating RR by four wickets in the first encounter.

Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers ahead of Match 39 between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League 2022:

Head to head: RCB and RR faced each other in 26 IPL matches, with RCB winning 13 and RR winning 10 (Three of these matches ended in a no-result).

1 – Yuzvendra Chahal needs one more wicket to overtake Piyush Chawla and become the second-highest wicket-takers among spinners in the IPL. Only Amit Mishra has more wickets among spinners.

1 – R Ashwin needs one more wicket to reach 150 wickets in the IPL. He will become the second off-spinner to the milestone, after Harbhajan Singh.

2 – Jos Buttler scored hundreds in both his last two matches, becoming only the second player to do it in the Indian Premier League, after Shikhar Dhawan.

3 – Yuzvendra Chahal needs to pick three more wickets to overtake Shreyas Gopal and have the most wickets by a spinner for Rajasthan Royals in an IPL season.

2 – Shimron Hetmyer (48) needs two sixes to reach 50 maximums in the IPL.

41 – Jos Buttler (2459) is 41 runs away from reaching 2500 runs in the tournament.

19 – Glenn Maxwell (7981) is 19 runs away from reaching the milestone of 8000 T20 runs.

3 – Samson (147) is three big hits away from completing 150 maximums in the league.

68 – Buttler (1932) requires 68 runs to reach 2000 IPL runs for RR.

4 – Mohammed Siraj (46) needs four wickets to complete 50 wickets for RCB in the IPL.