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Sunrisers Hyderabad will begin their IPL 2022 campaign by taking on Rajasthan at Pune Stadium tomorrow. Both SRH and RR had a disappointing campaign in IPL 2021 as they finished at 8th and 7th position respectively in points table. Thus, both teams will be looking to turn tables around this time in the upcoming IPL season. SRH, lead by Kane Williamson, will have a different side composition with players like Rahul Tripathi, Nicholas Pooran, Washington Sundar in their squad. They have retained some of their former players like Bhuvneshwar Kumar and T. Natarajan as well.

Rajasthan Royals look pretty strong with their top order batting line-up and their bowling attack looks also looks good with players like Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Ravi Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal featuring in their squad. Sanju Samson as captain didn't impress the cricket lovers in IPL 2021 and he is expected to change his strategy in IPL 2022 to help his side qualify for the playoffs for the first tme after 2018. It will also be interesting to see who will open the bating for Rajasthan as there are 4 options there for them currently with Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson and Yashasvi Jaiswal being there in squad.

Let’s have a look at some of the numbers and stats before start of SRH vs RR game:

Among Current Players

Most runs for SRH vs RR in IPL : Kane Williamson (219)
Most wickets for SRH vs RR in IPL : Bhuvneshwar Kumar (10)
Most runs for RR vs SRH in IPL : Sanju Samson (512)
Most wickets for RR vs SRH in IPL : None from current squad

50 - Thangarasu Natarajan, if included in Playing XI, will be playing his 50th T20 match. Prasidh Krishna needs 2 more wickets to pick 50 wickets in T20s.

50 - Rahul Tripathi needs 2 more sixes to complete 50 sixes in IPL, while Shreyas Gopal needs 2 more wickets to take 50 wickets in IPL.

54.75 - Kane Williamson averages 54.75 with the bat against RR in IPL.

100 - Sanju Samson will be 2nd player after Ajinkya Rahane to playing his 100th match for Rajasthan Royals overall (Played 6 matches for RR in CL T20).

250 - Yuzvendra Chahal needs 3 more wickets to pick 250 wickets in T20 Cricket. Yuzvendra Chahal has taken 17 wickets against SRH in IPL which is 2nd most after Bravo (21).

615 - Sanju Samson has smashed most runs (615) against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL history.

2000 - Jos Buttler needs 32 more runs to complete 2000 runs in IPL.