The thirteenth edition of the Indian Premier League will witness Rajasthan Royals locking horns with Kings Eleven Punjab in the Game 8 at the Sharjah Cricket Ground in United Arab Emirates later in a few hours from now.
Both Kings Eleven Punjab and Rajasthan Royals come into the encounter on the back of wins against Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings respectively. While KXIP trounced RCB by 97 runs in their second content of the season, Rajasthan Royals beat Chennai Super Kings by 16 runs in their season opener a few days back.
The game could be a high scoring affair with belligerent strokeplayers on either sides. KXIP have the aggresive strokemakers in KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Mayannk Agarwal and Nicholas Pooran, Rajasthan have a glaxy of big hitters in Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson, Steve Smith and Robin Uthappa.
While KXIP witnesses some blistering knocks from their KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal in their dominant win against RCB, Rajasthan Royals produced a six hitting spectacle against Chennai Super Kings with Sanju Samson and skipper Steve Smith smoking 13 sixes between them in their 16-run win over CSK.
*So ahead of the IPL 2020 clash between Kings Eleven Punjab and Rajasthan Royals at Sharjah, let us look at the
Head to Head and major records between the two teams*
Head To Head
Kings Eleven Punjab and Rajasthan Royals have played each other 19 times in the IPL since the inception of the league in 2008.
The honors are pretty even between the teams with Rajasthan having the slender edge with 10 wins over KXIP. Punjab franchise has come out on top with 9 wins.
Kings Eleven Punjab had won both their clashes against Rajasthan Royals in the 2019 edition of the IPL.
Most Runs
Former KXIP's Australian opener Shaun Marsh has scored the most runs for Rajasthan Royals scoring 409 runs against them.
Former RR skipper Ajinkya Rahane is the leading run scorer for Rajasthan Royals against Kings Eleven Punjab in IPL with 373 runs to his name against Punjab franchise.
Leading Wicket Takers
Piyush Chawla has taken the most wickets for KXIP against Rajasthan with 14 scalps in his kitty. Meanwhile former RR medium pacer Siddharth Trivedi is the leading wicket taker for RR against KXIP with 11 wickets to his name.
Rajasthan Probable Playing XI:
Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Steven Smith (C), Sanju Samson (WK), Robin Uthappa, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Tom Curran, Shreyas Gopal, Jofra Archer, Jaydev Unadkat.
Punjab Probable Playing XI:
KL Rahul (C) (WK), Chris Gayle/Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair, Glenn Maxwell, Sarfaraz Khan, Jimmy Neesham, Sheldon Cottrell, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammad Shami, Murugan Ashwin.