🏏IPL 2024: Match 19 - RR vs RCB at Jaipur @ 7:30PM IST🏏

🏏IPL 2024: Match 19 - RR vs RCB at Jaipur on 06/04/2024 @ 7:30PM IST🏏

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RCB searching for answers against in-form Rajasthan Royals

RCB's overseas batters haven't fired and they are up against a bowling attack with a superb powerplay and death-over record this season

RCB stars looking for spark

New season, newish team name, same old problems. Four games into IPL 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) have just one win. The top quarter of their line-up is full of superstars, but most of them are yet to fire, which has put immense pressure on the not-quite-superstars who make up the rest of their batting. The bowling has been, well, RCB.

Rajasthan Royals have a pair of not-quite-firing superstars too, right at the top of their line-up, but that hasn't impacted their results so far, with their opening three games bringing them three wins. How good could the Royals be, then, if Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler begin scoring runs?

Equally, though, it may take just one of Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Green to find form for RCB's campaign to spark to life. It's still early days in IPL 2024, and you only have to go back to last season to know that a good start is only a start. Royals began with four wins in their first five games, and RCB with two wins in five, but by the end of the league stage both teams had the same points and similar net run rates.

There's a long way to go, then, but RCB will know that a turnaround, if there is to be one, will need to begin soon.

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Jaipur pitch report for RR vs RCB match

Jaipur pitch is expected to support batters given in the two matches played at the venue, the team batting first scored over 185 runs. However, on both occasions, the team batting first defended the target. This shows the Sawai Mann Singh Stadium's pitch gets dual in nature as the game progresses.

Jaipur weather forecast during RR vs RCB IPL match

There is no chance of rainfall in Jaipur on April 6. However, the temperatures will hover around 30 degrees Celsius with humidity around 20 per cent in the evening, according to accuweather.com.

Pitch and conditions

Royals have won both their home games so far, batting first both times and defending totals of 193 and 185. The chasing team was in with a good chance in both games, so the Sawai Mansingh Stadium isn't necessarily a bat-first ground, though the large outfield and relative lack of dew do tend to even things up for the team bowling second.

Total matches played:30

• Royal Challengers Bengaluru won:15
• Rajasthan Royals won:12
• No result:2
• Abandoned:1

RR vs RCB head-to-head in Jaipur

• Matches played: 8
• Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 4
• Rajasthan Royals: 4

Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Bengaluru

• Matches played: 10
• Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 3
• Rajasthan Royals: 4
• No result: 2
• Abandoned: 1

Sawai Mansingh Stadium stats in IPL (Overall)

Matches 54
Matches won batting first 20
Matches won batting second 34
Average first innings total 160.15
Runs per over 8.05
Runs per wicket 27.78
Highest total recorded 217/6 by SRH vs RR in 2023
Lowest total recorded 193/4 by DC vs RR in 2023

Last 10 matches record in Jaipur
Matches 10
Matches won batting first 5
Matches won batting second 5
Average first innings score 175
Average first innings winning score 181
Average powerplay score 50
Average death-over score 50

IPL 2024 Stats
Matches 2
Matches won batting first 2
Matches won batting second 0

Stats that matter

• RCB did the double over Royals in IPL 2023, beating them by seven runs in Bengaluru and walloping them by 112 runs in Jaipur, where Royals were bowled out for 59.
• Jaipur is the scene of one of Virat Kohli's most jaw-dropping international innings, an unbeaten 52-ball 100 against Australia in a landmark ODI chase in 2013, but it hasn't been a happy venue for him in the IPL. In eight innings here, he's yet to score a half-century, and he averages 21.28 while striking at less than a run a ball. Of all venues where he's batted at least eight times in the IPL, he has the worst average in Jaipur.
• Du Plessis, Maxwell and Green have scored 159 runs between them so far this season at an average of 13.25 and a strike rate of 119.5.
• Royals have by far the best death-overs economy rate (7.41) of any team in IPL 2024 so far, with Lucknow Super Giants a distant second best at 9.60.
• Royals also have the second-best powerplay economy rate (8.44) of all teams behind Chennai Super Kings (8.16), while taking more wickets (9) in that phase than any other team.
• Any Royals-RCB game is an opportunity to bring up Kohli vs Sandeep Sharma. In 15 IPL meetings, Kohli has scored 87 off 67 balls from Sandeep while being dismissed seven times. No bowler has dismissed Kohli as often, with Ashish Nehra in second place with six dismissals.

In the spotlight: Shimron Hetmyer and Dinesh Karthik

He has one of the most specialised batting roles in the IPL, to the extent that R Ashwin routinely bats ahead of him if Royals feel the ideal entry point for their death-overs hitter hasn't yet arrived. Consequently, IPL 2024 has seen very little of Shimron Hetmyer so far. He's batted only twice in their first three games, and one of his innings was an unbeaten 14 off seven balls. And when Royals bring in a bowler as Impact sub, it's usually Hetmyer who makes way. If he makes an appearance in his designated role on Saturday, he'll be up against an RCB attack that has an economy rate of 11.30 in the death overs this season, while picking up just four wickets in that phase in four games.

For RCB, Dinesh Karthik plays a similar role to Hetmyer, his entry point is often delayed so he can bat at the death. Royals are aware of this, and also of Karthik's preference for batting against pace. Karthik is particularly averse to batting against legspin, and doesn't have a great record against Yuzvendra Chahal. In all their IPL meetings, Chahal has bowled 51 balls to Karthik and conceded only 47 runs while dismissing him three times. Chahal is happy to bowl at the death, and Royals are happy to keep two of his overs for that phase whenever they're up against RCB and Karthik. Chahal bowled the 17th and 19th overs in both meetings between these sides last season, picking up 2 for 11 in that mini-spell in Bengaluru, where he got to bowl to Karthik, and 0 for 22 in Jaipur, where he didn't.

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HEAD TO HEAD - LAST 5 MATCHES

RCB won by 112 runs, 14-May-2023

RCB won by 7 runs, 23-Apr-2023

RR won by 7 wickets (with 11 balls remaining), 28-May-2022

RR won by 29 runs, 27-Apr-2022

RCB won by 4 wickets (with 5 balls remaining), 06-Apr-2022

Batters To Watch(recent stats)

Yashasvi Jaiswal,  RR

10 M • 437 Runs • 48.56 Avg • 179.09 SR

Sanju Samson,  RR

10 M • 290 Runs • 41.43 Avg • 146.46 SR

Virat Kohli,  RCB

10 M • 509 Runs • 63.63 Avg • 138.69 SR

Faf du Plessis,  RCB

10 M • 373 Runs • 37.3 Avg • 137.13 SR

Bowlers To Watch(recent stats)

Yuzvendra Chahal,  RR

10 M • 15 Wkts • 7.49 Econ • 13.93 SR

Trent Boult,  RR

7 M • 9 Wkts • 8.28 Econ • 16.66 SR

Mohammed Siraj,  RCB

10 M • 8 Wkts • 9.06 Econ • 24.75 SR

Glenn Maxwell,  RCB

6 M • 6 Wkts • 6.77 Econ • 11.66 SR

RR vs RCB Probable Best Players of the Match:

Probable Best Batter: Virat Kohli

Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Virat Kohli could be the best batter in game 19 of the IPL 2024. With 203 runs in four games, Kohli is the tournament’s highest run-getter and the current holder of the Orange Cap. Kohli will be keen on putting in another good showing against Royals and potentially propelling his side to their second win of the season.

Probable Best Bowler: Trent Boult

Ace RR pacer Trent Boult could be the best bowler in game 19 of the IPL 2024. With five wickets in three matches, Boult has been brilliant for Royals, and RCB will be wary of the Kiwi pacer’s opening spell in the game.

Scenario 1

Rajasthan Royals win the toss and bowl

Power Play score – 40-50

First Innings Score - 155-165

Rajasthan Royals win the match

Scenario 2

Royal Challengers Bengaluru win the toss and bowl

Power Play Score - 60-70

First Innings Score - 180-190

Rajasthan Royals win the match