Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals will be locking horns in the first qualifier of IPL 2022, to be played at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
In the league stage of this season, GT won ten and lost four matches, while RR won nine and lost five. When both the teams faced each other earlier in the season, Gujarat Titans won by a margin of 37 runs.
The opening pair Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill were out of form in the first half for the Gujarat Titans but have shown signs of promise
20-year-old Yashasvi Jaiswal has been in good form for the Rajasthan Royals, with three fifties in the last four matches
although his opening partner Jos Buttler has been completely out of form in the last few matches.
Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers ahead of the Qualifier 1 between Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League 2022:
Head-to-Head: Both the teams met once earlier in the league phase and it was GT who won by 37 runs at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.
1 – Yuzvendra Chahal needs one more wicket to overtake Imran Tahir (2019) and have the most wickets by a spinner in an IPL season.
4 – Hardik Pandya needs to take four wickets to reach 50 wickets in the IPL.
4 – Jos Buttler needs to hit four more sixes to reach 350 sixes in T20 cricket. He will become the third England player to the milestone
2 – Rajasthan Royals have won only two out of ten IPL matches at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
2 – Sanju Samson needs to take two more catches to reach 50 catches as a wicketkeeper in the IPL.
2 – Matthew Wade needs two more catches to reach 100 catches in T20 cricket.
4 – Sai Kishore needs to take four wickets to reach 50 wickets in T20 cricket.
5 – Shubman Gill needs to hit five more sixes to reach 50 sixes in the IPL.
FOR LATEST
Today’s match prediction: Chasing team to win the match.