Rajasthan and Punjab are both led by Indian internationals. Sanju Samson takes over from Steve Smith for the Royals in this year’s tournament with KL Rahul leading the Kings for the second successive year.
There will be plenty of international stars on show in this game. In the Rajasthan Royals squad there is Liam Livingstone, David Miller, Chris Morris, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Andrew Tye, Mustafizur Rahman and the injured Jofra Archer who is expected to miss a large proportion of the season. For Punjab Kings, they can call upon Chris Gayle, Dawid Malan, Moises Henriques, Fabian Allen, Nicholas Pooran, Chris Jordan, Jhye Richardson and Riley Meredith.
But the key to a successful team is being able to blend the overseas internationals alongside the local players. Compared to other sides, both teams are not blessed with many India internationals. For Rajasthan, only Shivam Dube, skipper Sanju Samson, Mayank Markande and Jaydev Unadkat have been capped at international level. For Punjab Kings, they have Mayank Agarwal, Mandeep Singh, KL Rahul and Mohammed Shami. This will mean many opportunities for up and coming players to get plenty of game time.
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RR vs PBKS T20 Match Prediction & Betting Tips, IPL 2021
The final two sides to get their IPL campaigns underway go head to head on Monday in Mumbai. Rajasthan Royals, who won the inaugural IPL in 2009 but haven’t reached a final since, take on Punjab Kings who have only made it to one IPL final, which they lost to KKR in 2014. The match will be played at the Wankhede Stadium and will get underway at 19:30 local time.
Rajasthan and Punjab are both led by Indian internationals. Sanju Samson takes over from Steve Smith for the Royals in this year’s tournament with KL Rahul leading the Kings for the second successive year.
There will be plenty of international stars on show in this game. In the Rajasthan Royals squad there is Liam Livingstone, David Miller, Chris Morris, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Andrew Tye, Mustafizur Rahman and the injured Jofra Archer who is expected to miss a large proportion of the season. For Punjab Kings, they can call upon Chris Gayle, Dawid Malan, Moises Henriques, Fabian Allen, Nicholas Pooran, Chris Jordan, Jhye Richardson and Riley Meredith.
But the key to a successful team is being able to blend the overseas internationals alongside the local players. Compared to other sides, both teams are not blessed with many India internationals. For Rajasthan, only Shivam Dube, skipper Sanju Samson, Mayank Markande and Jaydev Unadkat have been capped at international level. For Punjab Kings, they have Mayank Agarwal, Mandeep Singh, KL Rahul and Mohammed Shami. This will mean many opportunities for up and coming players to get plenty of game time.
Rajasthan Royals ended IPL 13 at the bottom of the pile and will be without Jofra Archer who was awarded the Most Valuable Player. This would imply that this season is going to be another uphill struggle, however the Royals have stars aplenty and were only two points off a playoff spot in last year’s campaign.
Punjab Kings’ captain KL Rahul received the Orange Cap as the leading run scorer in the 2020 IPL. He contributed 670 runs at an average of 55.15, continuing his consistency in the tournament which saw him as the second highest run scorer in 2019 and the third highest in 2018. Dawid Malan is an excellent addition for the team, he is the world’s number one ranked batsman in T20Is.
RR vs PBKS T20 Match Live streaming
TV channels: The match can be watched live on Star Sports in India, Sky Cricket in the UK and Willow TV in the USA
Live Streaming: Fans in India can stream the match on Disney+ Hotstar.
RR vs PBKS Match Toss Prediction
Once again we expect the captain who calls correctly to insert the opposition and chase a target later on in the game.
Pitch Report
Games at the Wankhede Stadium often favour the batsmen. We expect the big name hitters to enjoy this surface.
Weather Report
Highs of 34 degrees earlier in the day, the temperature may still be above 30 during the game.
Read on for team previews, betting tips, latest odds, and match prediction for Rajasthan Royals vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2021.
RR Team News & Playing 11
RR Team News
This is a new era for Rajasthan Royals without Steve Smith and under the stewardship of Sanju Samson. However, from a standings perspective, the only way is up and they will be looking for their batsmen to make up for the loss of Jofra Archer with the ball.
RR Key Players
Ben Stokes - England’s all-rounder with a never say die attitude averaged 40.71 in last year’s IPL. He hit a 60-ball 107* against Mumbai Indians but only took 2 wickets across the tournament. In Archer’s absence, RR will need more with the ball from Stokes.
Jos Buttler - England’s multi-format keeper-batsman didn’t have the best of times in the white ball tour of India earlier this year. However, it is a mark of his ability that he still contributed two half-centuries during the T20I series and he will be ready from the off.
Sanju Samson - taking over from Steve Smith will not be an easy task but Samson has the knowledge that expectations are at an all-time low after taking the wooden spoon in the 2020 tournament. Samson hit three half centuries last year but will be looking to bring up three figures this time, something he did in the 2019 and 2017 tournaments.
RR Team Form
Rajasthan have been consistently poor after their win in the maiden IPL of 2008. They have failed to qualify for a final since then and have finished 7th and 8th in the last two seasons.
RR Predicted Playing 11
Yashavi Jaiswal, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson (c) (wk), Rahul Tewatia, Liam Livingstone, Chris Morris, Shreyas Gopal, Kartik Tyagi, Akash Singh, Jaydev Unadkat
RR vs PBKS Dream11 Team Prediction, Captain, Vice Captain
Wicket-keeper
Jos Buttler (9.5), KL Rahul (10.5) and Nicholas Pooran (9) will be our wicket-keepers. We would happily select them all as batsmen in their own right as well and expect big runs during this game.
Batsmen
Mayank Agarwal (9), Dawid Malan (8.5) and Liam Livingstone (8.5) make up our batsmen. It will be very interesting to see how Malan goes in his first IPL experience.
All-rounders
Ben Stokes (10.5) and Rahul Tewatia (9) will be our all-rounders. Stokes impressed with the bat on an overall disappointing tour of India for England and is well warmed-up.
Bowlers
Mohammad Shami (9), Riley Meredith (8.5) and Kartik Tyagi (8) make up our bowling attack. A strong performance from Shami will go a long way to securing a Punjab Kings win.
Captain/Vice-captain
KL Rahul will be our skipper, Ben Stokes can be his deputy.
A new brand but the same captain. Last year’s Kings XI Punjab will hope for another avalanche of runs from skipper KL Rahul as Punjab Kings in IPL 2021.
PBKS Key Players
KL Rahul - the man is a run machine at the top of the order and has averaged over 50 in each of the past three IPL seasons. He hit his highest ever IPL score and the fourth highest in the competition last year, striking an unbeaten 132 from 69 balls against RCB.
Dawid Malan - world number one ranked T20I batsman but a player who is constantly having to prove himself. He comes into his first IPL with question marks against his batting to spinners but with an average of 50.15 in T20Is.
Mohammad Shami - Mr Consistent with the ball, it follows that he will take 21 wickets in this year’s IPL after taking 19 in 2019 and 20 in 2020. Punjab will be hoping to see a repeat of last year when he regularly picked up early wickets.
PBKS Team Form
They ended the group stage with two big defeats last year when a win in either of the games would have resulted in a top four finish. Can Dawid Malan provide consistency to an inconsistent side?
PBKS Predicted Playing 11
KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Dawid Malan, Nicholas Pooran, Mandeep Singh, Sharukh Khan, Jhye Richardson, Mohammad Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Riley Meredith, Murugan Ashwin
RR vs PBKS Head to Head
Rajasthan have the lead after 21 clashes in the IPL.
RR vs PBKS Head to Head Stats in IPL T20
Matches Played
RR Won
PBKS Won
Tie
No Result
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12
9
0
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RR vs PBKS Betting Odds
The markets are pretty tight but Punjab are just about inching ahead as favourites
Who will win RR vs PBKS IPL T20 Match?
Jos Buttler and KL Rahul are expected to provide the bulk of the runs on either side
Buttler, Stokes and Livingstone will be the three batsmen we’ll back from Rajasthan Royals. An all English batting line-up with players who have had time in the middle in India in recent weeks.
For Punjab Kings we are backing Rahul, Malan and Agarwal. After struggling in the T20Is against England, Rahul showed his class with scores of 62* and 108 in the ODIs.
We expect Morris, Tewatia and Gopal to trouble the Punjab Kings batsmen the most. Morris had an exceptional economy rate of 6.63 last year and will be tough to score off again.
For Punjab Kings, we’ve combined Shami with two Australians in Richardson and Meredith. All eyes will be on Shami to see if he can keep up his record and register 21 wickets during this year’s tournament.
Historically the Rajasthan Royals and Punjab Kings have been two of the least successful sides in the IPL and both relied too heavily on individual players last year. With Jofra Archer back in England but KL Rahul back at the top of the order for Punjab Kings, we expect the rebranded Punjab outfit to begin with a win.
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Ashikur Rahman
Kings eleven look stronger than rajasthan..they have batsman and bowler and good mix of indian international players and foreign player. Rajasthan are looking inexperienced when it comes to indian players. Only Sanju Samson is a player who have some international experience if we talk about indian players
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Jack
RR will win for sure
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Bale subramanyam
Rajasthan can beat Punjab kings if buttler and stokes fire up
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Md NazrulIslam
Nicholas Pooran can be x factor as wankhede has short boundaries and he can hit long sixes on any ground.
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Aarav
RR bowling has not full strenght because archer and mustafizur rahman will not play this match so punjab will have upper hand to win
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Manpreet Gill
PBKS are looking good with world no 1 David Malan and has pace bowler like Jhye Richardson. But it will be difficult for them to choose between chris gayle, nicholas pooran and malan for their overseas player spot as all three are destructive batsman. Punjab is expected with KL Rahul getting back in form.
Apr 12, 2021
19:30 IST / 14:00 GMT
Wankhede Stadium - Mumbai, India
Kings eleven look stronger than rajasthan..they have batsman and bowler and good mix of indian international players and foreign player. Rajasthan are looking inexperienced when it comes to indian players. Only Sanju Samson is a player who have some international experience if we talk about indian players
RR will win for sure
Rajasthan can beat Punjab kings if buttler and stokes fire up
Nicholas Pooran can be x factor as wankhede has short boundaries and he can hit long sixes on any ground.
RR bowling has not full strenght because archer and mustafizur rahman will not play this match so punjab will have upper hand to win
PBKS are looking good with world no 1 David Malan and has pace bowler like Jhye Richardson. But it will be difficult for them to choose between chris gayle, nicholas pooran and malan for their overseas player spot as all three are destructive batsman. Punjab is expected with KL Rahul getting back in form.