If the Rajasthan Royals men are feeling let down by fortune, they cannot be blamed.
In their last match, M.S. Dhoni hadn’t opened his account, and Chennai Super Kings was wobbling at 28 for three at Chennai, when he played Jofra Archer on to his stumps. But the bails refused to come off, the Kings captain went on to make an unbeaten 75 and led his team to a third-straight win.
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For Ajinkya Rahane’s men, it was their third straight defeat. Theirs isn’t the only team in this plight, though.
Their opponent for Tuesday’s match at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Royal Challengers Bangalore, doesn’t know what a victory feels like this IPL season either. Unlike Rajasthan, Virat Kohli’s men know pretty well how they are getting destroyed by the opposition: they lost by seven wickets to Super Kings and by 118 runs to Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Squads:
Rajasthan Royals: Steve Smith, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Ashton Turner, Ish Sodhi, Oshane Thomas, Liam Livingstone, Ajinkya Rahane, Sanju Samson, Shubham Ranjane, Stuart Binny, Shreyas Gopal, Sudhesan Midhun, Jaydev Unadkat, Prashant Chopra, Mahipal Lomror, Aryaman Birla, Riyan Parag, Dhawal Kulkarni, Krishnappa Gowtham, Varun Aaron, Shashank Singh, Manan Vohra, Rahul Tripathi
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Parthiv Patel, Moeen Ali, AB de Villiers, Shimron Hetmyer, Shivam Dube, Colin de Grandhomme, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Devdutt Padikkal, Himmat Singh, Milind Kumar, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Heinrich Klaasen, Pawan Negi, Washington Sundar, Akshdeep Nath, Prayas Barman, Kulwant Khejroliya, Tim Southee.