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IPL 2020 | RR vs DC: Match Preview, Predicted XI & Dream 11 Fantasy Picks


The two teams from the northern part of India will see off after having a contrasting fortune in their last games after making a resounding start into the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League. While the Delhi Capitals led by Shreyas Iyer is on a high, winning 4 out of their five matches this season, Steve Smith’s Rajasthan Royals have not been able to maintain their winning run after the first two matches and lost the last three matches on the trot. Delhi looks like a formidable team, built on players who are in their primes while the Royals have not been served well by the big players along with youngsters failing to raise the game to fill the void left by seniors’ failures.


Delhi’s bowlers have been at the top of their game and have dismantled almost every team they have played against while Royals’ bowlers have been failing to check the oppositions’ batting line up from building up a good score. The match between Capitals and Royals will see a fierce contest between Rajasthan’s top order and Delhi's pace bowlers. Delhi’s pace battery is being spearheaded by Kagiso Rabada who has been in a red hot form this season but the Delhi Capitals have found an unknown hero in Anrich Nortje who has forced batsmen in the tournament to pay attention to his brilliance him while they face the challenges of Kagiso Rabada.


Delhi’s batting line up too, have been dominating the bowlers in their last few games after starting the season on an inauspicious note. Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw have been able to forge a decent counter-attacking partnership at the top of the order followed by Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant in the middle overs to take on the spinners in oppositions’ line up. Marcus Stoinis has been superb and he has made good use of his muscles in the tournament powering Delhi to impressive scores. The fact that the team is already on winning ways while the likes of Rishabh Pant and Shemron Hetmyer are yet to find the devastating forms will give Iyer and Ricky Ponting a huge amount of confidence going into the moving part of this season.


On the other hand, it has been really tough going for the Royals since their honeymoon with the short boundaries at the Sharjah cricket ground got over. With pressure mounting on the allotment of the batting order, Steve Smith tried to correct the top order and introduced India’s rookie Yashasvi Jaiswal but the left-hander could not help the teams and got out in the very first over in the last game against Mumbai Indians. The team will no hope for a similar showing from the batsmen as their journey comes back to Sharjah in the match against the Delhi Capitals


Steve Smith has not been able to translate his form in the earlier matches and the team finds itself in a bit of a quagmire after losing all the momentum it had after winning the first two games on the back of high power-hitting game in the batting department.


Royals need their two pillars of batting--Jos Buttler and Steve Smith to come good if they have to stand any chance to challenge this inform bowling line up of the Delhi Capitals.

Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals: Match Details

Match number- 23

Date: October 9, 2020 at 7:30 PM IST, 02:00 PM IST, 6:00 PM Local

Venue: Sharjah

Pitch and Weather

A fresh pitch will be used for the match between the Delhi Capitals and the Rajasthan Royals which means batsmen will have all the luxury of balls coming nicely on the bat, added with very small boundaries on parts of the Sharjah cricket ground. Spinners would have had a tough time anyway but the new pitch will make their life worse and it will be a challenge for someone like Ravichandran Ashwin who will be up against Steve Smith and Jos Buttler.


The weather conditions in the UAE have been superb to host any cricketing tournament with no chance of rain and humidity well within the enduring levels of players.

Team News

Rajasthan Royals

The RR team management had made three changes in the playing XI for the last game against Mumbai Indians including Yashasvi Jaiswal, Kartik Tyagi, and Ankit Rajpoot but only Kartik Tyagi could perform distinctively while Rajpoot went for 2 runs in his three overs and Jaiswal went for a duck. 


Varun Aaron may earn a call up into the playing XI in place of Ankit Rajpoot while Jaiswal is likely to get an extended run. Ben Stokes has not completed the quarantine period after landing in the Emirates and the Royals will have to wait a little longer to have the services of its star all-rounder.

Expected XI

Jos Buttler (wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Steven Smith (captain), Sanju Samson, Mahipal Lomror, Rahul Tewatia, Jofra Archer, Tom Curran, Shreyas Gopal, Varun Aaron, Kartik Tyagi

Delhi Capitals

Shreyas Iyer has bid farewell to Amit Mishra whose IPL journey was cut short due to an injury but Axar Patel has stepped up in his absence to fill the gap of a spinner turning the ball away from right-handers for the team management.


The Capitals are unlikely to change their playing XI barring any last-minute injury concerns and that means Ajinkya Rahane will continue to miss out from playing in the IPL this year.

Expected XI

Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rishabh Pant (wk), Shimron Hetmyer,  Marcus Stoinis, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje

Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals: Dream 11 team and suggestions

Rishabh Pant, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Marcus Stoinis, Jofra Archer, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Kartik Tyagi

Captain: Jos Buttler

Vice-captain: Rishabh Pant


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IPL 2020: Ponting wanted me to 'Mankad' Aaron Finch, reveals Ravi Ashwin

Delhi Capitals spinner Ravi Ashwin has revealed that head coach Ricky Ponting wanted to stand up and tell him to take off the bails at the non-striker’s end to dismiss Aaron Finch. The incident took place during the game between Royal challengers Bangalore and the Shreyas Iyer-led side. Opener Finch backed up way too early at the non-striker’s end but Ashwin gave him a reprieve - sending out a clear warning to the batters not to repeat the same. Ashwin took to Youtube and shed light on the matter. “How far he (Finch) went out! I was about to stand and tell you to run him out,” Ponting told Ashwin at the dinner table after the game against RCB. The 34-year-old spinner also said that batsmen would try to back-up a bit too far in order to run singles and doubles. “As I ran into bowl that delivery, just before I got into my delivery stride and jump, a golden helmet is rolling along, like a detached coach of a train. I then stopped and thought, ‘should I run him out or not’? He still didn’t come back, he was looking at me. He is a good friend since the days of Kings XI Punjab. A very good man. I have spent lots of time with him in the evenings. I thought, ‘okay let it go, let this be a final warning.” Earlier last season, Ashwin was in the spotlight as he ‘Mankaded’ Jos Buttler during Kings XI Punjab’s match against Rajasthan Royals. Punjab did win the game after a well-settled Buttler had to walk back to the pavilion but Ashwin had to face a lot of flak.

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IPL 2020 | KKR vs CSK: 3 Reasons Why Karthik's Kolkata outfox MS Dhoni and Chennai

The Kolkata Knight Riders staged an incredible comeback in the final 10 overs of the game to defeat Chennai Super Kings in the 21st match of the Indian Premier League 2020 at Abu Dhabi on Wednesday 7 November. Down and out after scoring a below-par 167 in the first innings, Kolkata dug the hole for themselves in the first half of the second innings, with CSK cruising at 90/1 at the 10-over mark. Or so it seemed that time with Dinesh Karthik no deciding to bowl his best bowler Sunil Narine for a single over of the game. What unfurled next was a thing of beauty. KKR bowlers led by Narine choked the life out of Chennai batsmen, letting them score just 67 runs for the loss of 4 wickets to write an incredible story in the IPL. On that note here are the three reasons why the Kolkata Knight Riders, down and out by a country mile, pulled off an incredible heist against Chennai Super Kings. Rahul Tripathi Sunil Narine was dropped. Not from the side, but from the batting line-up after a long long time. Since the discovery of his pinch-hitting prowess, Sunil Narine has been Kolkata’s top-order batsmen for quite some time now. After a poor patch of form, Narine was finally dropped down the order for the CSK match and that spot was given to Rahul Tripathi, a natural opener who batted at 8 due to the lack of space in the pecking order. To say that he made the best of the opportunity would be a massive disrespect. In the team’s total of 167, Tripathi alone made 81 off 51 balls. He played a defiant innings laced with 3 sixes and 8 boundaries while his partners kept departing throughout the time he was in the crease. Tripathi’s success at the top of the order means that Narine, who struggled against the pacers throughout this tournament can now be played as a floater, sent in to take on the spinners and go gung-ho from the first ball. This on paper should not only give KKR better balance and more varied options in an already dynamic batting order. Kolkata think tank The victory over Chennai today was engulfed in old school romanticism. This was a victory of a captain that had faith in his plans. Plan to come into the game with something concrete and then be flexible enough to chuck the whole thing into the ground and reshape it with immaculate reading of the game. Dinesh Karthik came into the game facing tremendous backlash from the Delhi Capitals game. Several calls starting from Narine opening Eoin Morgan coming in at 6 and Rahul Tripathi batting at 8 did not sit well with the fans. And then he did this. In the day and age of statistical analysis, he committed several crimes. Defending a paltry target of 168, he did not bowl his top bowler (Narine) in the first 10 overs. He bowled out his best fast bowler at the halfway mark of the game. Just when tempers started flaring once again, came the turnaround. Saving Narine for the second half of the innings became a masterclass. Combined with Varun Chakravarthy, Kamlesh Nagarkoti and Andre Russell Knight Riders choked the life of the opposition. From 90/1 in 10 overs, CSK imploded to lose the game by 10 runs. The victory was an ode to the cricketing brains that have been shaped over years and years of victories, failures and learning, rather than stats, analytics that have taken the game by storm over the last few years. The game was engulfed in old school romanticism. Chennai Super Kings batting order If your lower middle order batsman defends the first ball when 39 runs are required of the last 21 balls, you can safely assume that there is a problem in approach. And there was. For sure, Kolkata need to be credited for their exceptional performance, but there makes no sense that a team cruising at almost 10 runs an over at the midway mark simple surrenders. Coming into bat in the 17th over, Kedar Jadhav played an inexplicable innings of 7 runs off 12 balls that dug CSK’s grave. And what a turn of events has it been for CSK in a space of three days. The other night their openers shared a record 181-stand for the franchise and last night against a struggling KKR, they put up their hands in the air and said, I surrender. The Kolkata Knight Riders would be super, super proud of their victory against CSK. The positives from the game outweigh the shambolic performance by a country mile and Kolkata as a team would like to gain momentum from that. Not only did Karthik got his thinking hat back, they now have a proven opener and a floater than can be as effective in the middle order as he was in the opening overs of the game. KKR play their next game against Kings XI Punjab on 10 October at the Sheikh Zayed stadium and would like to keep their momentum on to stay at the top of the IPL table.