Rajasthan Royals (RR) will play against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur. SRH is at the bottom while RR is at 4th in the ipl standings.
Both of them won only one match in their last five matches. Both of them struggled with their proper combined team performance. They were highly lagged in both their batting and bowling.
Yashasvi Jaiswal is going well in the tournament and contributes pretty much runs for his team. He is 3rd in the list of orange cap till now and scored 442 runs. He started well but he didn’t get the support from the other end. Jos Butler started the season great with some healthy knocks but as the tournament goes on his scoring runs heavily goes down. His strike rate also tremendously goes down.
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Openers of SRH are not performing consistently. Abhishek Sharma shows little intent in run making but still he needs to be more consistent with his batting. Mayank Agarwal from the beginning finds some difficulty to perform. He made runs in just 2 matches but for that he took too many balls to score.
Due to the failure of openers in Hyderabad, huge pressure came upon Rahul Tripathi and Aiden Markram. Tripathi was also unable to perform well. Against KKR he started well but couldn’t convert into a big one. And the same thing happens with Markram also where he is also unable to convert his innings to a big one.
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Sanju Samson showed some good hands against Gujarat but he also couldn’t get a good one. Samson inconsistency also creates problems for RR as he is one of the highest run getters for his team. He also has the most runs scored against SRH. Devdutt Padikkal too performs under average. He needs to pull up the socks.
Shimron Hetmyer is failing to accomplish his finishing role. He cant definitely gear up the runs in few balls but his failing in his department makes the team score less. Dhruv Jurel showed some destruction towards the end but it was not so much of worth for his team as he didn’t get any support from the other end. Harry Brook the million dollar boy from Hyderabad is showing disappointment in his innings. Except against KKR, he averages less than 10 and that creates a huge problem for the team. Sunrisers highly expect from him but in return it proves out to be a heavy loss.
Heinrich Klassen put some runs in the death overs but still he always became less compared to the opposition teams. Abdul Samad also missed his lofted shots.
Bowling is majorly a concern for SRH. Their combined bowling effort is missing. Bhuvneshwar Kumar gets his rhythm back and takes some wickets in between the covers. Except him none of them is looking for any kind of wicket. Marco Jansen joined the team but he grabbed 2 wickets against KKR. Markande is the leading wicket taker from the team. He takes 11 wickets till now but in the last few matches he was mostly going expensive. Natarajan too misses his yorkers which he is known for.
The Royals bowling looked totally clueless against GT. Yuzvendra Chahal started the season well but later on he was going expensive and he hardly managed to take wickets. Ashwin bowled some economic spells but it was not enough for the team as he grabbed less wickets. Both of them took 13 wickets in this IPL till now. Trent Boult failed to stop the opposition in his death overs due to which they scored too many runs. Adam Zampa was seen highly expensively against GT and he went wicketless.
Head to Head (RR vs SRH):
Matches- 17
| SRH | RR | |
| WON | 8 | 9 |
| HIGHEST SCORE | 201 | 220 |
| LOWEST SCORE | 127 | 102 |
Pitch Analysis:
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur will host the match against SRH vs RR. In the last match against GT, RR showed difficulty to bat but GT was batting comfortably. Therefore once again the pitch is expected to assist the spinners early on. After spending little time on the pitch it is expected to be batsman friendly.
Expected Playing 11 for RR:
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Butler, Sanju Samson (c & wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel, R Ashwin, Jason Holder, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Sandeep Sharma.
Expected Playing 11 for SRH:
Abhishek Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram ©, Heinrich Klassen (wk), Harry Brook, Abdul Samad, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Kartik Tyagi.
Predicted best 11 for the match:
Jos Butler, Sanju Samson, Heinrich Klaasen, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, R Ashwin, Aiden Markram, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Trent Boult.