Second-place Mumbai Indians (MI) would look to continue their winning run in the ongoing thirteenth season of the IPL when they lock horns with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Shiekh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi in a few hours from now.


With 10 points in the bank from seven games, Mumbai Indians are in striking distance of securing a play-off berth in IPL 2020 and a win against Purple donning Knights will further strengthen their chances to qualify for the knockouts.

Kolkata Knight Riders who have been a bit up and down need to find some semblance in both the batting and bowling departments against a formidable MI team. KKR come into the game on the back of a 82-run loss to Royal Challengers Bangalore.

KKR would also like to settle scores with Rohit Sharma-led MI after they were handed a 49-run trouncing by the defending champions earlier in the season.

So ahead of the IPL 2020 MI vs KKR clash at Abu Dhabi, here is a look at their head-to-head stats before their reverse fixture in IPL 2020

HEAD TO HEAD

Mumbai Indians have an overwhelming domination over KKR in their previous IPL encounters, winning 20 out of their 26 games between the two teams in the T20 league

Mumbai have also won four out of their last five games against KKR. Both teams shared the honours in the last edition of the IPL in 2019 with 1 win a piece.

Leading Run Scorers

Prolific opener Rohit Sharma holds the record for most runs by Mumbai Indians batsman against Kolkata Knight Riders. The MI skipper has aggregated a staggering  788 runs against KKR in IPL

Explosive Windies batsman Andre Russell has smashed 157 runs against Mumbai Indians. It is the most by the current set of KKR player against 4-time champions.

Most Wickets

Hardik Pandya has taken the most wickets for MI against KKR among the current crop of Mumbai Indians bowlers in IPL. The seam all-rounder has accounted for 11 KKR batsmen. Overall, Lasith Malinga (20) is the highest wicket-taker for Mumbai Indians against KKR.

Windies off spinner Sunil Narine leads the wicket taking charts for KKR against MI with 22 dismissals to his name.