In the 26th game of IPL 2018, hosts Delhi Daredevils (DD) will take on Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at Feroz Shah Kotla on Friday night. In the current points table, KKR is at the fourth position with 6 points and DD is at the bottom place (eighth position) with just 2 points.

Both teams have already played 6 games each in this season, while KKR won thrice and DD won only once. The Friday night game will be DD’s second home game in this season and KKR’s third away game of this season.

Earlier, they met in this season once in Kolkata on April 16 where KKR claimed a big victory of 71 runs.

Both teams are looking forward to Friday’s game. While Kolkata wants to win this game to stay at the top four in the points table while Delhi wants to win this game for ending their continuous winless runs.

Before the beginning of the game, we are looking at some important stats of DD and KKR, which are related to the upcoming match.

Form in the IPL 2018

Delhi (in last five matches) – Lost, Won, Lost, Lost and Lost

Kolkata (in last five matches) – Lost, Lost, Won, Won and Lost

Early meeting in this season: KKR won by 71 runs at Kolkata on April 16.

(Teams’ run-rate in the different phases)
(Notes: *excluded the over-reduction innings. For DD: excluded their away game against Rajasthan Royals.)

(Total wickets taken with different bowling styles) 

 (Men in-form)

Head-to-head IPL records between DD and KKR 

Important IPL stats at Feroz Shah Kotla (Delhi)

Important IPL stats between DD and KKR

(Team Stats)

(Individual stats)

Other important stats

• KKR leg-spinner Piyush Chawla (47 wickets) needs to take 3 more wickets to complete his 50 IPL wickets for KKR. After Sunil Narine (103 IPL wickets for KKR), he will be the second KKR bowler to achieve this feat.
• KKR skipper Dinesh Karthik (19,977 runs) needs to score 23 more runs to complete 20,000 runs in his professional cricketing career (first-class, List A and T20).
• KKR batsman Robin Uthappa (1,968 runs) needs to score 32 more runs to complete 2,000 IPL runs for KKR. He will be the second KKR batsman to achieve this feat after former KKR skipper Gautam Gambhir (3,035 IPL runs for KKR)