Rajasthan Royals’ Strength: IPL 2022 finalist Rajasthan Royals is performing strong in this season as well. In the points table of IPL 2023, this team is currently at number one. Rajasthan has won three of its four matches. It also includes that memorable victory of last night, in which this team had given a thrilling defeat to Chennai Super Kings. On the basis of this victory, Rajasthan is being considered as a strong contender to win the title of the 16th season of IPL.
In fact, on Wednesday night, Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings at their home ground. In the last 10 years, only Mumbai Indians could beat CSK in Chepauk. Now Rajasthan Royals has become the second such team, which has defeated CSK in Chepauk in the last 10 years. Not only this, Rajasthan Royals have defeated CSK after 15 years on this ground. Earlier in IPL 2008, this team defeated CSK here. In that season, the Rajasthan team also became the champion.
By the way, this win alone is not making Rajasthan Royals a contender to become the champions of IPL 2023. The balance between batting and bowling in this team and the match-winning players present in every department strengthen this team’s claim to be the champion.
There is depth in Rajasthan’s batting
Rajasthan Royals have great depth in batting. This team has Jose Butler, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson in the top order. The good thing is that like last season, this time also all three are in excellent form. In the middle order, this team has batsmen like Devdutt Padikal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel and Shimron Hetmyer. Padikal and Riyan have not been able to play big innings till now. But Hetmyer and Jurel are doing their job well. Then there are also all-rounders like R Ashwin and Jason Holder in the lower order.
Till the eighth order, this team has match winning batsmen. This is the reason why the top order of this team bats fearlessly and in the powerplay itself, it defeats the spirits of the opposition team.
legendary spin duo
Apart from batting, the other big strength of this team is spin bowling. Looking at the turn on Indian pitches, this team has a good army of spin bowlers. This team has the legendary spin duo of R Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal, who have won Rajasthan many matches since last season. Then spinners like Adam Zampa and Murugan Ashwin are also present as an alternative to this pair.
Many options in fast bowling too
Due to the absence of famous Krishna, the fast bowling of this team has definitely weakened a bit, but there are other Indian bowlers in Rajasthan to make up for the lack of this bowler. In the form of KM Asif, Kuldeep Sen and Sandeep Sharma, Rajasthan has a good indigenous team of fast bowlers. All three have not disappointed so far. Then this team also has a fast bowling all-rounder in the form of Jason Holder. Holder is also bowling well.
Trent Boult’s havoc continues this time too
Trent Boult is leading the fast bowling of this team. Bolt is recognized for taking wickets in the Powerplay. He has the ability to send any batsman to the pavilion with the new ball. In the last season also, he used to get Rajasthan early wickets and this time also he is doing his work very well.
Sanju Samson’s captaincy also has power
Overall, the Rajasthan team has a good balance in batting, fast bowling and spin bowling. This team has done a good job in fielding till now. Then the captaincy of Sanju Samson has always been excellent. In such a situation, it seems that even though this team has missed out on becoming the champion last year, but this time this team is going to leave no stone unturned to lift the trophy.
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