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Kolkata Knight Riders will be playing their last game of the league stage against Lucknow Super Giants. KKR must win to stay in playoffs race as a loss would ensure this to be their last game of IPL 2022 while LSG must also look to win this game to seal a second spot in IPL 2022 points table so that they can ensure to play against GT in Qualifier1.
Last time when these two sides faced each other, Lucknow defeated Kolkata by 75 runs at MCA Stadium, Pune but post that LSG have lost 2 games consecutively in a row while KKR has won 2 games consecutively. It will be very interesting to see which team will come out on top today since all results from today will have a greater impact on sealing the playoffs spot.
Numbers and stats before start of KKR vs LSG game:
1 - Jason Holder needs 1 more wicket to complete the milestone of reaching 50 wickets in IPL.
2 - Dushmantha Chameera needs 2 more wickets to complete the milestone of reaching 100 wickets in T20s.
2 - Umesh Yadav needs 2 more wickets to surpass Bhuvneshwar Kumar and have most wickets in IPL powerplay.
Bowlers with most wickets in powerplay overs of IPL:
Bhuvneshwar Kumar - 54
Sandeep Sharma / Umesh Yadav - 53
Zaheer Khan - 52
3 - Andre Russell needs 28 more runs to become the third player to smash 2000 runs for KKR in IPL after Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa.
3 - Marcus Stoinis needs 3 more sixes to complete the milestone of 50 sixes in IPL.
6.08 - Mohsin Khan has an impressive economy of 6.08 in IPL 2022, which is second best in this season after Sunil Narine (among players who bowled minimum 10 overs in this IPL season).
100 - Shreyas Iyer needs 4 more sixes and Quinton de Kock needs 5 more sixes to complete the milestone of 100 sixes in IPL.