IPL2022: RR will look to remain on top of the points table

RR will face 5th place Gujarat Titans on April 14 at DY Patil Stadium

Rajasthan (RR) and Gujarat(GT) are on the same level as they have won 3 matches in 4 games. If anyone will win they will go straight to on top with 8 points

GT faced their first defeat in the last match against Hyderabad by 8 wickets as RR defeated Lucknow in their last game by 3 runs

 PITCH REPORT:

In the last game, spinners played a very important in the second half, picking 7 wickets. The average first innings total has come down from 177 to 163.

TACTICS:

GT- Everything looks fine with them, only lower-order batters are not performing well. Rahul Tewatia is in good form but the team will expect South African finisher David Miller to show some power hitting towards the end.

RR-They will go ahead with the same winning team, only change we can see is Matthew wade as he is not scoring runs which results in their openers being unable to survive the powerplay. we can see Rahmanullah Gurbaz in place of Matthew Wade.

HEAD TO HEAD :

Both teams will play for the first time against each other.

STATS:

1)Hetmyer is behind AB de Villiers as he has the second-highest strike rate in death overs since IPL2019 with a strike rate of 195.95 with a boundary percentage of 27.3.

2)Only Bumrah has taken more wickets than the fantastic duo of Yuzvendra Chahal and Rashid Khan in the last half a decade in the IPL.

“The toss is not in our control. We are learning to adapt our game keeping the dew factor in mind. Both toss and the subsequent dew in the second half of the game is out of our hands,” Padikkal said.

POSSIBLE PLAYING XI:

GT- Rahmanullah Gurbaz/Matthew Wade (wk), Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Hardik Pandya (c), David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Abhinav Manohar, Rashid Khan, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Shami, Darshan Nalkande

RR: Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal/Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (c & wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jimmy Neesham, Navdeep Saini, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal