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Gujarat Titans will be playing final in their maiden IPL season itself against Rajasthan Royals at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. Gujarat have been able to consistently win matches as they had too many game changers in their side who were able to finish games for the team in death overs while Rajasthan have solid core to win games convincingly for them.
In IPL 2022 Gujarat Titans has defeated Rajasthan Royals in both meetings so far. Toss might play a crucial role in this game, meanwhile it is to be noted that Sanju Samson as captain has won only 3 tosses out of 16 games so far in this IPL season. GT would bank on their skipper Hardik Pandya to join the party today meanwhile Jos Buttler is expected to continue his terrific form with the bat.
Numbers and stats before start of GT vs RR game:
1 - Yuzvendra Chahal needs 1 more wicket to win purple cap award in IPL 2022. Also, he need just 1 more wicket to have most wickets by a spinner in an IPL season.
Most wickets by a spin bowler in an IPL season:
Imran Tahir - 26 in 2019
Wanindu Hasaranga - 26 in 2022
Yuzvendra Chahal - 26 in 2022
2 - Mohammed Shami needs 2 more wickets to take 100 wickets in IPL. Prasidh Krishna needs 2 more wickets to take 50 wickets in IPL.
3 - Rashid Khan has dismissed Jos Buttler thrice in IPL. No bowler other than Rashid Khan has dismissed Buttler more than twice in IPL.
Jos Buttler vs Rashid Khan in IPL:
Inns -7
Runs - 24
Balls - 39
Outs - 3
11 - Mohammed Shami has joint-most wickets (11) in IPL 2022 Powerplay overs with Mukesh Choudhary.
20 - Ravichandran Ashwin needs 20 more runs to complete 1000 runs in T20 cricket.
25 - Jos Buttler needs 25 more runs to surpass the runs tally of David Warner in a single IPL season.
Most runs in an IPL season:
Virat Kohli - 973 in 2016
David Warner - 848 in 2016
Jos Buttler - 824 in 2022
38 - Wriddhiman Saha needs 38 more runs to complete 4000 runs in T20 cricket.
71 - Hardik Pandya needs 71 more runs to complete 2000 runs in IPL.