(Cricket news) Royals’ last outing was a come-from-behind win against Gujarat Titans while SuperGiants’ loss against Punjab Kings was only their second loss of IPL 2022. Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal are scoring at 11.20 per over which is the fastest among openers at IPL 2023 on the other hand, Kyle Mayers and KL Rahul go at 8.43 for SuperGiants. Subsequently Royals score 9.76 in the powerplay which is the second quickest while SuperGiants’ go at 8.03 which is the third slowest. Mayers, Rahul, Deepak Hooda and Krunal Pandya have a strike rate 126.01, which is very low compared to the Royals’ 149.21. Rahul’s slow start and Hooda’s struggles have not helped.
On the other hand, Royals’ top-order batters have looked very impressive. The two teams are quite similar in their finishing prowess – thanks largely to their West Indian contingent in Nicholas Pooran and Shimron Hetmyer. Pooran got 141 runs this season at a strike rate of 216.92 Hetmyer on the other hand is scoring at a strike rate of 184.84.Despite having a different strategy as the Super Giants are still second on the table behind Royals. Royals are back at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur as they played their first two home games in Guwahati
Rajasthan Royals
Riyan Parag was left out against CSK as they opted to go in with an extra bowling option. They’ve generally subbed out a batter for a bowler in each of the matches and that trend could continue. RR might be tempted to bring in Joe Root, who can play against spinners really well and can be a handy with the ball as well.
Probable bat-first XI: 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Jos Butter, 3 Sanju Samson (capt & wk), 4 Devdutt Padikkal, 5 Riyan Parag, 6 Shimron Hetmyer, 7 Dhruv Jurel 8 R Ashwin, 9 Adam Zampa 10 Trent Boult, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
Probable field-first XI: 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Jos Butter, 3 Sanju Samson (capt & wk), 4 Riyan Parag, 5 Shimron Hetmyer, 6 Dhruv Jurel 7 R Ashwin, 8 Adam Zampa 9 Trent Boult, 10 Yuzvendra Chahal, 11 Sandeep Sharma
Lucknow Super Giants
Ayush Badoni has been the Impact Player but last match they brought K Gowtham in for Mayers. The LSG think tank would want to bring De Kock into the playing XI especially the current form he is in.
Possible bat-first XI: 1 KL Rahul (capt), 2 Kyle Mayers, 3 Deepak Hooda, 4 Krunal Pandya, 5 Nicholas Pooran (wk), 6 Marcus Stoinis, 7 Ayush Badoni, 8 K Gowtham, 9 Ravi Bishnoi, 10 Avesh Khan, 11 Mark Wood
Possible bowl-first XI: 1 KL Rahul (capt), 2 Kyle Mayers, 3 Deepak Hooda, 4 Krunal Pandya, 5 Nicholas Pooran (wk), 6 Marcus Stoinis, 7 K Gowtham, 8 Ravi Bishnoi, 9 Avesh Khan, 10 Mark Wood, 11 Yudhvir Singh/Amit Mishra
