IPL 2022: DC vs RR, Stats Preview – Upcoming records and approaching milestones
Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals will be facing each other in the 34th match of this IPL season, to be played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Last season, DC topped the group stage but lost both their playoffs while RR finished seventh. So far in this season, both the teams have played six matches with Rajasthan Royals winning four and Delhi Capitals winning three.
Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers ahead of Match 34 between Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League 2022:
Head to head: Both teams have faced each other in 24 matches, with DC and RR equally winning 12 of them.
375 – Runs scored by Jos Buttler in this IPL season so far, comfortably leading the Orange Cap chart. The next highest is KL Rahul with 265 runs. Buttler has scored these runs at an average of 75.00 and a strike rate of 156.90.
17 – Wickets taken by Yuzvendra Chahal in this IPL season, the highest by any player. His average of 10.3 and strike rate of 8.4 is also the highest by any bowler this season.
2 – The top two batters who have hit most sixes in IPL 2022 are playing for Rajasthan Royals. Jos Buttler hit 23 sixes, followed by Shimron Hetymer who hit 17 sixes so far in this season. Both players have also scored at an average of nearly 75.
17 – Yuzvendra Chahal’s tally of 17 wickets is the joint-highest by any player in a streak of six consecutive matches in IPL, tied with Harshal Patel last year.
4 – Yuzvendra Chahal needs to take four wickets to overtake Shreyas Gopal as the spinner with most wickets for Rajasthan Royals in an IPL season.
3 – Hundreds scored by Jos Buttler in his last seven IPL innings. Virat Kohli is the only other player to have at least three IPL hundreds inside seven innings.
6 – Rishabh Pant needs six more fours to reach 350 fours in T20s.
6.20 – Batting average of Rovman Powell this IPL season, having scored just 31 runs in five innings. This is the lowest batting average among all overseas players who batted at least five innings in a season. (counting only the No.1-7 batters)
