It’s a Friday night match at the batting paradise, Sharjah Cricket Stadium between the Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Capitals. Looking at both sides, the Steve Smith-led Rajasthan have won both the games with ease which they’ve played at Sharjah. That being said, they haven’t played good cricket outside Sharjah, losing all the three games. Tonight, we find out whether it’s the Sharjah’s ground playing a role in Royal’s victory or is it just plain luck.
Delhi Capitals have been performing extra-ordinarily in the edition of Dream11 IPL. They’ve almost covered and executed skilfully every aspect of the game, whether it’s batting, bowling or fielding. Great captaincy by the young Shreyas Iyer and having the legendary Ricky Pointing as a coach is helping them to achieve a ticket to the Playoffs pretty easily.
The Capitals could grab hold of the top spot on the table if they seal the game tonight, whereas the currently placed seventh, Royals need their players to come with their A-game before it’s too late ultimately leading on to succumb their chances to qualify for the Playoffs.
We anticipate tonight a high scoring batting show by both the neighbouring state teams, this one’s going to be interesting. Now let’s take a look at the top 5 players to watch out for.
Let’s take a look at the top 5 key players we should watch out for when Rajasthan Royals lock horns with Delhi Capitals:
1. Sanju Samson
The young super talented wicket-keeper batsman has been the talk of the town lately. With the clean striking of the ball, he currently averages an extraordinary strike rate of 192.13 and has hit 16, the greatest number of sixes by any player in this tournament so far.
Leading run-scorer for Rajasthan Royals, he has struggled to bat with the same form outside Sharjah, similar performance the entire team has been showing. It’s safe to say that he does play a key role for his team to come out victorious.
2. Shreyas Iyer
The Delhi Capitals captain, Shreyas Iyer always has been a striker of the ball and performs whenever his team requires him to. The last time at Sharjah, he played a blazing inning of 88 from 38 balls which helped his team to set the personal highest ever team total, in the history of the tournament.
He in fact has also been the leading run-scorer for his team so far, scoring 181 runs in five innings, averaging a good 45.25.
3. Kagiso Rabada
The lead bowler upfront for the Delhi Capitals is currently on top of the table for contenders of the purple cap. He is performing colossally so far, picking up 12 wickets in just five innings, with an at par great economy of 7.50
We shall see how the Rajasthan Batsman faces this south African pace bowler at a much smaller ground, where the ball has been seen swinging more overall.
4. Jofra Archer
The English pacer Jofra Archer has been more of an all-rounder this season. In fact, he has more runs so far than great batsman like Kane Williamson. He has been striking the ball huge, including performing the role leader of the pace attack for his team, which he is known best for.
He has hit at least a six every single time in this tournament he came out to bat, providing the team with a solid boost down the order.
5. Jos Buttler
The classy English wicket-keeper batsman arrived little late to the Rajasthan Royals party, though he hasn’t played a match at Sharjah yet and is surely about to show what he’s capable off in tonight’s match-up against Delhi Capitals.
Jos has played three matches in which he hasn’t contributed to the team much, even though he looks in solid form. It’s going to be an interesting battle up front against the Delhi Capitals seamers.
We’re also likely to see a little contest between Jos Buttler and Delhi Capitals all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin, as the last time both came face to face Ashwin who was then the Kings XI Punjab captain had mankaded Buttler in the match between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals.