Preview,
"Don't have words to explain my feelings, I don't think I could have done anything more," RR's skipper Sanju Samson said after losing their first game on the very last ball of the game against PBKS. At the other end, Rishab Pant won his first game as a captain and started the season with a bang. Both the new captains will face their second game against each other.
IPL season: 14
Rajasthan Royals will take on Delhi Capitals.
Venue and Time: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai at 7.30 pm (IST)
Rajasthan Royals: it was never going to be easy when you were to chase down 222 runs, Samson had almost pulled it off single-handedly, he walked out to bat when the score was 25-2 and from there on he had almost snatched it from jaws of PBKS. Ben Stokes, unfortunately, ruled out of IPL for the entire series due to a finger injury and that's a massive blow for them. That may bring Jos Buttler to his favourite position to open the innings. By doing so, Miller may get in at Stokes in the middle order. The bowling department looks a bit concerned for RR, the debutante Chetan Sakaria bowled a brilliant spell and bagged Mayank, KL Rahul and Jhye Richardson. On a flat track, he conceded only 31 runs for his 3. He was impressive, tactically smart with his slower ones and pinpoint accurate with the new ball. At one area Rajasthan will want to improve is their bowling, they have not been doing well at the bowling department over the past few years except a Jofra. RR bowlers conceded 72 runs between 11-15 overs and 60 runs in the last 16-20 overs. They would want to forget the last match and come all well into this match.
Delhi Capitals: Delhi's opening partnership swaggered at the beginning of their campaign into the IPL. Prithvi Shaw and Shikar Dhawan tore CSK's bowling apart, they added 138 runs for the first wicket. Capital's bowlers bowled the first six overs well, Avesh dismissed Faf and followed by Woaks in the very next over to dismiss R Gaikwad. That made the difference in the game. R Ashwin was expensive, but we all know his abilities and can expect that he will bounce back. We were expecting the last year special duo Nortje-Rabada would straight away get in, however Nortje has been tested Covid positive yesterday and he will be quarantined in a result, Rabada will also be not available for the match and will remain quarantined. Avesh Khan was pretty Quick and bowled a brilliant spell. DC may remain the same squad.
Probable playing XI (RR): Jos Buttler, Manan Vohra, Sanju Samson ©, David Miller, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Shivam Dube, Shreyas Gopal, Chris Morris, Chetan Sakaria, Mustafizur Rehman.
Probable playing XI (DC): Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishab Pant (c), Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woaks, Ravi Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Tom Curran, Aavesh Khan.
(We may see one chance in Capitals, Praveen Dubey may replace Amit Mishra).
Key players to watch out for :
Delhi Capitals: Rishab Pant, Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woaks, R Ashwin.
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Chris Morris, Chetan Sakaria.
Faceoffs today,
Shaw vs Sakaria
Morris vs Dhawan
Pant vs Morris
Sanju vs Works
Ashwin vs Sanju
Ashwin vs Buttler
Stats,
Head to head record is equal, both won 11 matches on 22 occasions they faced each other.
Sanju Samson was the highest scorer for RR in the last season with 375 runs at an average of 28.84 and a strike rate of 158.89.
Shikhar Dhawan was the highest scorer for capitals who scored 618 runs at an average of 44.14 and a strike rate of 144.73 in the 2020 season.
Something you should know about,
DC has the worst record of getting all out most of the time (23) and the second is none other than RR which has been bowled out for 19 times.
Shikhar Dhawan became the first-ever player to score 1500+ scores for two different IPL teams, he has scored 2518 for SRH and now completed 1500 for DC.
DC has the worst economy in the middle overs which is 8.5 most by the team.
Sanju Samson became the highest individual scorer for RR on scoring 119.
Shikhar Dhawan became the 1st player to smash 600 fours in IPL.
Butter has the highest strike rate in the powerplay of 177 which is the most by any player since 2018.
Pitch report: Last both games have been scored 180+. Considering the few factor chasing will be the idea. Expect another high scoring game.
Dream11 for today's match :
Predictions: Delhi has experience whereas RR have young players, however, we will go with the chasing team.
Thanks for reading.
Rahul Sargam 🏏
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