In the 25th match of this IPL Season 2019. Rajasthan Royals face of Chennai Super Kings and Today's match will be played between them from 8 pm on Thursday at Sawai Man Singh Stadium. Chennai's team is on the top of the table with 5 wins out of 6 matches. Rajasthan has only 2 points and on the 7th position on the table.
Rajasthan Royals will host current IPL 2019 league leaders Chennai Super Kings at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur on Thursday.
In this version, Chennai and Rajasthan will face to face for the second time. The first match between the two was held on March 31 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. In that match, Chennai won the match by 8 runs.
There are three factors from which the visiting team can take confidence from – the disparate forms of the two teams, the fact that the Jaipur track has been favouring slow bowling and maybe also from MS Dhoni's match winning performance in the reverse fixture. RR is currently seventh among the eight teams, with just one win in five matches.
Their sole win came against 8th-placed Royal Challengers Bangalore at home. In contrast, CSK registered a clinical seven-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders on Tuesday and are at the top of the table, with five wins from six matches.
Rajasthan's success rate against Chennai is 67%
Chennai on the home ground of Rajasthan. In Jaipur, 6 matches have been played between the two so far. Of these, Rajasthan led by Ajinkya Rahane has won 4, while Chennai has only been successful in only two matches.
Chennai Super Kings got their last win against Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur on May 10, 2012. He then defeated them by 4 wickets. Since then, there were 3 matches between the two on the field. All three were successful in winning the Rajasthan team.
Rajasthan got the last win against Chennai on May 11 last year. In the match at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Rajasthan defeated Chennai by 4 wickets.
Chennai bowlers are bowling fantastically at this time. He had stopped Kolkata for 108 runs in his last match. Experienced Harbhajan Singh and Imran Tahir, along with fast bowler Deepak Chahar, are also bowling very well.
Rajasthan's batting is mostly based on Jos Buttler and Ajinkya Rahane. Young batsman Sanju Samson certainly had a century in a match, but since then he has not been able to repeat his performance. In addition, Steve Smith and Ben Stokes need to perform well against Chennai.
