Rajasthan Royals will take on Pune Warriors in 13th match of Indian Premier League, which will be played at Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium, Pune from 8pm.
With two wins in two matches Rajasthan is looking solid while on the other hand Pune has lost both and has not even shown the Warriors instinct.
Pune batting has been worse with none of the big names have lived up to their mark. They have all-rounders like Mathews, Ross Taylor and Marlon Samuels in the middle and Uthappa and Manish Pandey at the top but all of them have failed. Yuvraj Singh who was missing in the first two matches is now available and there is chance that his comeback will turn the tables for Pune Warriors.
RR on the other hand has worked as a collective team, their batsmen have fired, bowlers have picked wicket and fielding has been decent. Dravid, Hodge, Binny and Rahane have been good and if Watson too performs they will become even better. Cooper, Trivedi and Shukla have impressed as bowlers.
Both team are poles apart at present in the points table of the IPL while Rajasthan is second from the top, Pune is at the end of the table.
Pune Warriors team:
AD Mathews (Captain), ER Dwivedi, UA Birla, AB Dinda, AJ Finch, RV Gomez, Harpreet Singh, DS Jadhav, B Kumar, AP Majumdar, M Manhas, MR Marsh, BAW Mendis, AG Murtaza, AM Nayar, IC Pandey, MK Pandey, WD Parnell, Parvez Rasool, M Rawat, KW Richardson, MN Samuels, R Sharma, SPD Smith, TL Suman, Tamim Iqbal, LRPL Taylor, K Upadhyay, RV Uthappa, SB Wagh, LJ Wright, Yuvraj Singh
Rajasthan Royals team:
R Dravid (Captain), S Badree, STR Binny, KD Boresa, A Chandila, AA Chavan, K Cooper, FH Edwards, JP Faulkner, SP Goswami, Harmeet Singh, BJ Hodge, GB Hogg, VS Malik, AL Menaria, MDKJ Perera, AM Rahane, Sachin Baby, SV Samson, OA Shah, R Shukla, A Singh, S Sreesanth, SW Tait, P Tambe, SK Trivedi, SR Watson, DH Yagnik
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