IPL 2024 Spotlight: Match 10 RCB vs KKR Stats Preview And Approaching Milestones

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will face Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in match 10 of the Indian Premier League 2024 season on March 29, Friday at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. Faf du Plessis-led RCB started their IPL campaign with a disappointing loss against five-time champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by six wickets. They bounced back strong in their second game against Punjab Kings (PBKS), securing a four-wicket victory at home. On the other hand, Shreyas Iyer's KKR started their season with a four-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at home. The Knight Riders will be playing their first away game in this edition and hoping to maintain their winning streak. All eyes will be on Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir as both teams won their previous matches, with KKR beating Sunrisers Hyderabad and RCB doing the same against Punjab Kings. Although the victories were not easy, they will be eager to build on that confidence.

Kohli vs Gambhir - A clash of old foes with high-voltage history

It all started at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, with Gautam Gambhir having a verbal exchange with Moises Henriques after the two collided as Gambhir was going for a quick single. Later in the game, Gambhir and Virat Kohli had a go at each other and had to be physically separated by a third Delhi boy, Rajat Bhatia. 

Three years later, at the same venue, Yusuf Pathan and Andre Russell gave KKR a come-from-behind win, and Gambhir showed his emotions by kicking a chair in the dugout, an act for which he was fined 15% of his match fee. The rivalry between Virat Kohli and Gambhir was reignited in the previous season when RCB played against Lucknow Super Giants, whose mentor was Gambhir. This year, Gambhir is back with KKR in the same role.

Speaking about the first win of the Royal Challengers in the IPL 2024 season, Virat Kohli 77(49) played a fantastic knock, which helped them cross the victory line. Dinesh Karthik played a brilliant knock of 28 runs off just 10 balls, which helped RCB win the match comfortably. Mahipal Lomror came as an Impact Player and really played an impactful knock 17*(8). KKR's Sunil Narine bowled a game-changing spell of 1/19 in the first match against SRH. With his impactful spell, KKR hopes he'll continue to bowl well against RCB's strong batting line-up.

Meanwhile, here's a look at the stats and numbers game ahead of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders clash:

Head-to-Head:

RCB and KKR have met 32 times in the Indian Premier League history, with the Royal Challengers winning on 14 occasions and the Knight Riders clinching 18 victories.

Stats That Matter:

1. RCB's Big Three - Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli and Glenn Maxwell have struggled to get away against Narine in T20s. Du Plessis has scored 54 in 70 balls (two dismissals) against him, Kohli 141 in 145 balls (four dismissals) and Maxwell 94 off 86 (four dismissals).

2. Virat Kohli has also been unable to put away Varun Chakravarthy, scoring only 31 off 33 balls against him and getting out once in six innings.

3. Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer have struggled to score runs against Mohammed Siraj. Shreyas Iyer has managed only 32 off 31 balls against him while getting out twice. While Venkatesh Iyer has never got out to Siraj, he has only scored 23 off 30 balls against him.

4. Across all T20s in 2024, Andre Russell has scored 276 runs in the death overs at a strike rate of 287.50.

5. Since the IPL 2020 season, Sunil Narine has opened eight times and only managed to score 34 runs at an average of 4.25 and a strike rate of 79.06. He has only managed to get a double-digit score once.

Approaching Milestones:

1 - Sunil Narine (499) is set to play his 500th T20 Match.

1 - Shreyas Iyer (99) needs one six to reach 100 sixes in the IPL.

1 - Shreyas Iyer (349) needs one four to reach 450 IPL fours.

1 - Manish Pandey (149) needs one catch to reach 150 catches in T20.

2 - Andre Russell (98) needs two wickets to reach 100 wickets in the IPL.

5 - Dinesh Karthik (445) needs another five fours to reach 450 IPL fours.

5 - Faf du Plessis (145) needs another five sixes to reach 150 IPL sixes.

5 - Glenn Maxwell (45) needs five more catches to reach 50 catches in IPL.

7 - Dinesh Karthik (143) needs another seven sixes to reach 150 IPL sixes.

10 - Faf Du Plessis (390) needs another ten fours to reach 400 fours in IPL.

10 - Shreyas Iyer (440) needs another ten fours to reach 450 IPL fours.

13 - Nitish Rana (4487) needs thirteen runs more to reach the 4500-run landmark in the T20s.

15 - Rahmanullah Gurbaz (3985) needs fifteen runs more to reach 4000-run landmark in T20s.

37 - Venkatesh Iyer (963) needs thirty-seven more runs to reach 1000 runs in the IPL.

95 - Mandeep Singh (3905) needs ninety five runs to reach 4000-run landmark in T20s.