 The Rajasthan Royals will face the Chennai Super Kings in the 24th game
of the tournament. The Royals have won two games in a row, whereas the Chennai
has also won equal number of games but lost two in a row before going into the
match against the Mumbai Indians. The winner of this game will get into the top
six whereas the team that lose this match could be relegated to the bottom of
the table for now, along with the Kings XI Punjab.
The Rajasthan Royals seem to have got back on track with their two wins.
They must credit a lot of this resurrection to Adam Voges, who flew down from
Australia after playing in the ODI series against New Zealand, and then performed
wonderfully well in both the innings. In fact, in the game against Punjab, he
was the man of the match for his wonderful batting and that would mean that
he will be the batsman to look out for in the game.
Click for Live Score Card of Jaipur Rajasthan Royals Vs Chennai Super KingsApart from Voges, Yusuf Pathan has been off and on with his batting
form, and will probably need to go out there and go after the bowling, but the
Super Kings would have studied the videos of the manner in which he bats and
would probably pepper him with the short balls and slower balls again. This
could mean that Warne may try to out-think his opposition by unleashing Pathan
only in the last four or five overs, instead of sending him up the order at
the number four position. Siddharth Triwedi is inclusion in the bowling
has made a world of difference to the team, and that begs the question; why
wasn't he included in the playing eleven in the first place.
Chennai, on the other hand, will be bolstered by the fact that MS Dhoni is
back. However, with the elbow still bothering him, there is a good chance that
Dhoni will opt for Parthiv Patel to remain in the side and keep wickets whereas
Murali Vijay could be the man missing out. Mathew Hayden has been barely
successful in the tournament as compared to his last IPL's exploits and he will
be a key player in the line-up.
It is Chennai's bowling that needs to prosper and try and restrict the opposition
to something manageable. This will mean that the side needs to do something
to cut off the runs in the slog overs in order to disallow the likes of Voges
from breaking free.
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