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Rajasthan Royals will face Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore in a must win game at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Match number 43 of IPL 2021. A loss for RR would almost eliminate them from playoffs scenario like it happened for PBKS yesterday, while RCB on the other hand would look to seal their playoffs spot with a win. Both RR and RCB also have a very poor NRR thus a win by big margin could help their cause in qualifying the for the playoffs easily.
Last time when these two sides faced each other in Mumbai, RCB won convincingly by a 10-wicket margin with the help of Devdutt Padikkal's century. Currently, RCB is placed at the third position while RR occupied the seventh position with 4 wins from 10 games. Sanju Samson as skipper is expected to step up in this game once again and with their good bowling attack will be hoping to stop the thunderous RCB batting lineup.
Let us have a look at some of the numbers and stats before start of RCB vs RR match:
Most runs for RR [among current players] vs RCB in IPL - Sanju Samson (241 runs)
Most wickets for RR vs RCB in IPL - Shreyas Gopal (14 wickets)
Most runs for RCB vs RR in IPL - Virat Kohli (554 runs)
Most wickets for RCB vs RR in IPL - Yuzvendra Chahal (16 wickets)
3 - Mohammed Siraj needs 3 more wickets to pick 100 wickets in T20 cricket.
4 - Shreyas Gopal has dismissed AB de Villiers most times (4) in IPL joint with Piyush Chawla and Krunal Pandya. Gopal also has dismissed Kohli thrice in the IPL out of 6 innings
5 - Yuzvendra Chahal has dismissed Sanju Samson most times (5) in the IPL history.
648 - AB de Villiers has scored most runs (648) against RR in the IPL history.
20 - Liam Livingstone needs 20 more runs to score 4000 runs in T20 cricket.
26 - Glenn Maxwell needs 26 more runs to score 7000 runs in T20 cricket.
28 - Evin Lewis needs 28 more runs to complete 500 runs in this IPL.