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IPL caravan reaches Dharamshala, Rajasthan Royals will clash with Punjab

Hospice. Due to their fluctuating performance so far, the teams of Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals, stuck in a difficult path of agar-magar, will reach the playoffs by proving themselves better than each other in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match to be held here on Friday. Will try to keep their dim hope alive. Both these teams have the same 12 points in 13 matches but Rajasthan’s team is ahead of Punjab on the basis of better run rate. However, apart from winning this match, both these teams will have to pray for favorable results in the rest of the team’s matches as well. The Punjab team again failed to perform well on crucial occasions.

His fast bowlers looted runs in power play and death overs which cost the team dearly. Bowlers like Kagiso Rabada, Sam Curran and Arshdeep Singh conceded runs at around 10 runs per over which put pressure on the team. Rabada was not in his best form here on Wednesday against Delhi Capitals. Arshdeep was not used in the power play and death overs in this match, which is bound to be questioned as this fast bowler has been troubling the batsmen with his yorkers in the death overs and his swing in the beginning. Arshdeep’s performances, however, have lacked consistency and he will now have to be at his best in this do-or-die match.

Shikhar Dhawan used left-arm spinner Harpreet Brar in the 20th over against Delhi but his ploy didn’t work and in the end his decision made a big difference in the match. Dhawan himself has not been able to walk in the last two matches with the bat and now he needs to lead from the front. In the first phase of the tournament, it seemed that the Rajasthan Royals team was very difficult to beat, but after that their rhythm got disturbed and out of the last five matches, they could win only one match. Rajasthan have extremely talented players like Yashasvi Jaiswal and Yuzvendra Chahal but despite this their team could not perform well on crucial occasions. Jos Buttler and skipper Sanju Samson have also played some brilliant innings. The team will expect big innings from both of them in this match as well. Looking at the Rajasthan Royals team, he was considered a strong contender for the title at the beginning of the tournament, but if he is in a difficult situation now, then he himself is responsible for it.

Such is the pitch report
Talking about the pitch of Dharamshala, this pitch is initially helpful for the batsmen. But increasing in the match, this pitch also takes a good turn for the bowlers. The last match on this pitch was played between Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings on May 17, in which Delhi Capitals won and defeated Punjab Kings. In this match, both the teams together scored around 400 runs.

Teams are as follows:

Rajasthan Royals:
Sanju Samson (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Joe Root, Devdutt Padikkal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Obed McCoy, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal , KC Cariappa, Jason Holder, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathour, Adam Zampa, KM Asif, Murugan Ashwin, Akash Vashisht and Abdul PA.

Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan (c), Shah Rukh Khan, Matthew Short, Prabhsimran Singh, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Tyde, Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Nathan Ellis, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Mohit Rathi, Shivam Singh. The match will start at 7.30 pm Indian time.

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