On Saturday (31st October) evening, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) will face each other at Sharjah Cricket Stadium (Sharjah).
Both teams will play their 13th match of this season. In the IPL 2020 points table (updated till 30th October), Royal Challengers Bangalore are in the second position with 14 points (7 wins and 5 loses) and SunRisers Hyderabad are in the seventh position with 10 points (5 wins and 7 loses).
During the 3rd match of the IPL 2020 (at Dubai, DSC on 21st September 2020), they met for the first time in this season where Royal Challengers Bangalore started their IPL 2020 journey with a 10-run victory.
Also Read: IPL 2020, Match 52: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) vs SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) – Head To Head Records
IPL 2020, Match 52: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs SunRisers Hyderabad (RCB vs SRH) – Stats Preview
Teams’ forms in IPL 2020
Recent results (in last 5 matches)
RCB (oldest to latest) – Lost, Won, Won, Lost and Lost
SRH (oldest to latest) – Lost, Lost (Super Over), Won, Lost and Won
Men-in-form
| Stats | RCB | SRH |
| Top run-scorers | Virat Kohli (424 runs) | David Warner (436 runs) |
| Devdutt Padikkal (417 runs) | Manish Pandey (354 runs) | |
| AB de Villiers (339 runs) | Jonny Bairstow (345 runs) | |
| Top wicket-takers | Yuzvendra Chahal (18 wickets) | Rashid Khan (17 wickets) |
| Chris Morris (11 wickets) | Thangarasu Natarajan (13 wickets) | |
| Mohammed Siraj (8 wickets) | Khaleel Ahmed (8 wickets) |
Records of RCB and SRH in UAE
| Team | Matches | Won | Lost | Tied (W/L) | No Result |
| RCB | 17 | 8 | 8 | 1 (1/0) | 0 |
| SRH | 17 | 7 | 9 | 1 (0/1) | 0 |
Records of RCB and SRH at Sharjah Cricket Stadium (Sharjah)
| Team | Matches | Won | Lost | Tied (W/L) | No Result |
| RCB | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 (0/0) | 0 |
| SRH | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 (0/0) | 0 |
Crucial personal stats
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
AB de Villiers
i) South African cricketer AB de Villiers has already scored 8996 T20 runs. The right-handed batsman is only four runs away to complete his 9000 T20 runs. He will be the first South African and 8th overall batsman to score 9000 T20 runs.
Virat Kohli
i) The right-handed batsman Virat Kohli has already hit 296 T20 sixes and he will complete 300 T20 sixes after hitting four more sixes. After Rohit Sharma (376 sixes), Suresh Raina (311 sixes) and MS Dhoni (302 sixes), Kohli will become the fourth Indian to hit 300 T20 sixes.
Aaron Finch
i) Scoring 27 more runs, Aaron Finch (1973 runs) will become the seventh Australian cricketer to score 2000 IPL runs.
SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH)
Kane Williamson
i) It will be the 50th match for Kane Williamson for SunRisers Hyderabad. He will be the seventh cricketer to play 50 T20 matches for this team.
ii) Kane Williamson (1494 runs) is 6 runs away to complete his 1500 runs for SRH. After David Warner (3707 runs) and Shikhar Dhawan (2768 runs), Williamson will be the third batsman to score 1500 T20 runs for this team.
iii) Kane Williamson (48 T20 sixes) is two sixes away to complete 50 T20 sixes for SRH. Williamson will be the third batsman to hit 50 T20 sixes for this team. David Warner (135 sixes) and Shikhar Dhawan (54 sixes) were the first two batsmen to hit 50 T20 over boundaries for this team.
David Warner
i) While the third most run-scorer in IPL history, Rohit Sharma has scored 5158 IPL runs, David Warner (5142 IPL runs) is 16 runs away from him.
