Today’s IPL Match RR vs RCB: Rajasthan Royals will have their task cut out when they face the red-hot Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL 2024 Eliminator match at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Wednesday evening. It’s no secret that RR completely lost their way since the one run defeat against the Sunrisers Hyderabad on May 2. Since then, Sanju Samson’s team has lost four games on the bounce and slipped out of top-two as a result.
The story is completely different for Royal Challengers Bangalore. They were propping up table after losing seven times in the first eight games. But a seven-game winning run propelled Virat Kohli and co to the playoffs, where they have a golden opportunity to go all the way and win the trophy that has been eluding them since the inception of IPL way back in 2008.
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Today’s IPL Match RR vs RCB – Key Players
Batters:
Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag and Yashasvi Jaiswal for Rajasthan Royals
Riyan Parag‘s current form in IPL 2024 is a stuff of Hollywood movies that how a 22-year-old young batsman outscored his prominent teammates such as Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal. Parag has been so good, and so influential with his contribution, that the talks of him getting into the Indian Cricket Teams are getting louder with passing game. He did no harm to his enhancing reputation after scoring a team-high 48 runs off 34 balls in the last match against Punjab Kings. He is fourth on the Orange Cap list after scoring 531 runs in 12 innings.
But RR captain Sanju Samson is not far behind in terms of scoring runs for the team. The 29-year-old is on 504 runs in 13 innings, featuring 5 half centuries. He is too important for this team as he can not only score at a quick strike-rate, but he has the ability to construct his innings as per the situation.
Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis and Rajat Patidar for Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli‘s name might go into Oxford dictionary to re-define the word consistency. He is out of this world, a player who knows no bounds. He is a perfection carved out by his madness to his own methods. At 35, Kohli is re-writing IPL history books, as the current season, where he has scored the most runs with 708 in 14 innings, is his second-best. What a perfect and a fitting reply to so-called cricket pundits saying Kohli might have left his peak years behind.
Rajat Patidar is another batsman on RCB’s ranks who can do no wrong these days. He is in terrific form, scoring quick and critical runs in the middle-overs. The 30-year-old is also the third highest run-scorer for RCB in IPL 2024.
RCB captain Faf du Plessis is more than capable of winning the game with his batting. The former CSK star scored a brilliant 54 runs against MS Dhoni‘s team. He has scored 421 runs in 14 innings in IPL 2024.
Bowlers:
Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal and Avesh Khan for Rajasthan Royals
Considering RCB’s batting strength lies in Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis and if the duo survives the opening spell from Trent Boult and Avesh Khan then Yuzvendra Chahal becomes even more critical for RR’s success in this game. The 33-year-old can do exactly like that as he is in red-hot form, and leads the wickets charts for RR this season.
Avesh Khan and Trent Boult have picked up a total of 25 wickets this season. The duo is the main weapon in RR’s pace department. With 13 wickets, Avesh is 2nd on RR’s wickets list this season, while Boult has claimed 12 wickets.
Mohammed Siraj, Glenn Maxwell and Yash Dayal for Royal Challengers Bangalore
Yash Dayal‘s last over saved the season for RCB. With MS Dhoni looking in ominous form, Dayal managed to defend 10 runs in the last five balls. He has been RCB’s most consistent fast bowler this season. With 15 wickets in 13 matches, he is also the leading wicket-taker for RCB this season.
Mohammed Siraj deserves praise for the comeback he made following a very poor start to the IPL 2024 campaign. With 13 wickets in IPL 2024, the 30-year-old is 2nd on RCB’s wickets charts.
RR vs RCB Head To Head Record
Both Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore have faced each other 31 times across previous seasons. And it’s RCB who boast a better head-to-head record with 15 wins, while RR claimed 13 victories. Meanwhile, three games ended in no-result.
Rajasthan also beat the Bangalore outfit when they faced each other earlier in the season. A brilliant first innings century from Virat Kohli helped RCB post a good 183/3 run total. But Jos Buttler struck an unbeaten 58-ball hundred, while Sanju Samson played a captain’s innings as RR won the game by six wickets. Prior to the last meeting, RCB won two consecutive games against Sanju Samson’s team – both in IPL 2023.
- Total matches: 31
- RCB Wins: 15
- RR Wins: 13
- No-result: 03
RR vs RCB Pitch Report
The last league game played at the Narendra Modi Stadium produced a high-scoring affair. The home team, Gujarat Titans, batted first and posted a total of 231/3 in 20 overs, courtesy of centuries from Shubman Gill (104 off 55) and Sai Sudarshan (103 off 51). CSK also scored 196 runs in response, taking the aggregate total to 427 runs in the match.
Six of the last 8 innings, excluding the Qualifier 1, played at this venue have seen teams scoring 190+ runs, which is certainly high return. So expect another good batting performance from the likes of Virat Kohli, Riyal Parag, Sanju Samson, to name a few.
Playing XI Of Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals
- Openers: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis
- No-3 and no-4: Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green
- Middle-order: Dinesh Karthik, Glenn Maxwell Mahipal Lomror
- Lower-order and Bowlers: Yash Dayal, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Lockie Ferguson
- Impact Player: Swapnil Singh
Playing XI of Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Openers: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tom Kohler-Cadmore
- No-3 and no-4: Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag
- Middle-order: Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell
- Lower-order and Bowlers: Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Yuzvendra Chahal
- Impact Player: Sandeep Sharma
