RR vs RCB, IPL 2024: Records and Stats at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Rajasthan Royals (RR) will take on Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)  in match 19 of IPL 2024 at Sawai Mansingh International Cricket Stadium, in Jaipur on Saturday, April 06, 2024. RR will be playing their third game at home while this will be the second match on the road for Royal Challengers Bengaluru. 

 In the ongoing tournament, RR have won all three matches played and have started this tournament superbly. Thus, the Royals would like to continue their winning momentum. On the other hand, RCB have won one match and lost three of IPL 2024. But, the Challengers would like to come back to their winning ways.

Rajasthan Royals will hope that they can get four wins in four matches and possibly go to the top of the points table. Royal Challengers Bengaluru meanwhile will want to win the game and carry some winning streak going forward. 

These two teams' last meeting was in match 60 of IPL 2023 at this venue where RCB posted a mammoth 171/5 courtesy of fifties from Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell and trashed RR who were all out for just 59 courtesy of 3-fer from Wayne Parnell and good support from other bowlers and won by a massive 112 runs.

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Sawai Mansingh Stadium Pitch Report

The stadium has a bowling-friendly pitch, which favours both pace and spin. Only two teams have ever crossed the 200 mark at this stadium in IPL history and only once has a batter scored a 100. The boundaries are also bigger than most venues in India. The team winning the toss is expected to bowl first as the pitch always has something to offer for the pacers in the first few overs. 

IPL Stats & Records at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

With two matches of the IPL 2024 being played here, the total number of matches at this stadium has gone up to 54, but the numbers still remain a little skewed due to as many as 34 matches at this stadium have been won by the side batting second at this venue. Hence the team batting first will aim to score big in excess of 160 runs to put the opposition under the pump.

RR vs RCB Strategies and Match-ups:

The strategy at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium should be to win the toss and bowl first to exploit the conditions that will be helpful to the team batting second. The key matchups for this contest are Mohammed Siraj versus Jos Buttler, Yuzvendra Chahal versus Faf du Plessis, and Trent Boult versus Virat Kohli.

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RR vs RCB Player Battles to Watch Out For:

Mohammed Siraj vs Jos Buttler:

These two heavily experienced players have had many battles between them in all forms of the international game, especially in white cricket where Siraj has come out victorious. In the IPL, the battle is slightly more even. In five innings, Jos Buttler has scored 41 runs at an average of 20.50 against Siraj, but these runs have come at a healthy strike rate of 141.37. Siraj has also had a hard time dismissing Buttler having gotten him just two times in 29 balls.

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Faf du Plessis vs Yuzvendra Chahal:

These two heavily experienced players have had many battles between them where Chahal has come out victorious. In the IPL, the battle is slightly more even. From 11 innings, Faf du Plessis has scored 38 runs at an average of 19 against Chahal, but these runs have come at a partly strike rate of just 86.36. This deadlock will decide the way the contest between the two teams goes.

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X-Factors for RR vs RCB:

Rajasthan Royals:

After showing sublime form in the ongoing tournament and saving RR from an early collapse twice, Riyan Parag will be riding high on both confidence and form coming into this game. Riyan Parag's consistency and maturity inwthe last few games in IPL is also something the Royal Challengers Bengaluru would be wary of.

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru:

Virat Kohli got off to a great start in this tournament and is the leading run scorer so far. He will be eager to get going on Saturday, and if he does, he will likely be the difference between the two sides.