Rajasthan Royals will square off against Punjab Kings in the 65th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati on Wednesday. When these two teams met earlier in the season, RR registered a thrilling three-wicket win with Shimron Hetmyer scoring 10-ball 27.
We take a look at the head-to-head battle, Players to watch out for, and Squads of both teams in our match preview.
Punjab Kings: L L W W L
Punjab Kings will need to come up with a better bowling performance as they conceded a huge total of 241 runs against RCB. Furthermore, their selection decisions were baffling as they left out Kagiso Rabada and Harpreet Brar.
Rajasthan Royals: L L L W W
Rajasthan Royals would be disappointed to end on the losing side in their last three matches. They haven’t been able to come up with a collective show in the last three games, which has been their strength throughout the season.
Head to Head: Matches: 27, Won by PBKS: 11, Won by RR: 16.
Players to look out for: Harpreet Brar Jonny Bairstow, Jitesh Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh, and Shashank Singh will hold the key for PBKS.
Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, and Yuzvendra Chahal will hold the key for RR.
RR SQUAD FOR IPL 2024
Sanju Samson (c), Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Avesh Khan, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger.
PBKS IPL 2024 SQUAD
Wicketkeepers: Jonny Bairstow (ENG), Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma.
Batters: Shikhar Dhawan, Harpreet Bhatia, Rilee Rossouw (SA), Shashank Singh.
All-rounders: Liam Livingstone (ENG), Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran (ENG), Sikandar Raza (ZIM), Shivam Singh, Chris Woakes (ENG), Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Harshal Patel.
Bowlers: Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada (SA), Nathan Ellis (AUS), Rahul Chahar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Prince Choudhary.
