Preview

Kings XI Punjab will take on Rajasthan Royals in their 9th match of the season in Mohali.

Rajasthan Royals Team Preview & Dream11 Prediction:

• Rajasthan Royals had a great win against Mumbai Indians by 4 wickets in the last match
• With only 2 wins out of 7 matches played RR are at 7th positon on the points table
• Jos Buttler and Ajinkya Rahane will probably open the inning for the RR team. Both perfomed well in the last match.
• Jos butler played a brilliant knock of 89 runs in 43 balls and helped Rajsthan register a huge win over Mumbai team
• Sanju Samson, Steven smith and R tripathi will handle the middle order of the team
• Rahane and Samson played handy knock of 37 and 31 runs in the last match against mumbai indians team
• Ajinkya Rahane will lead the RR team as a Captain. He is also a good Batsman.
• Sanju Samson will do the Wicket Keeping duty for his RR team.
• Krishnappa Gowtham and Shreyas Gopal will lead the spin attack of the team.
• Shreyas Gopal and Jofra Archer are leading wicket taker of Rajasthan team with 8 and 7 wickets respectively
• Jaydev Unadkat, Jofra archer and Dhawal Kulkarni will take care of the pace attack for the team
• Jofra archer picked 3 wickets in the last match with bowling figure of (4-39-3)

• Royals registered a stunning win against Mumbai Indians in their last match and are placed at 7th position with 4 points.

• Jos Buttler was named man of the match for his brilliant knock of 89 runs in 43 balls with 7 fours and 7 Sixers.

• Ashton Turner is expected to get game against Royals replacing Steve Smith who was disappointing with the bat.

• Ben Stokes is expected to return following his recovery from illness. He is likely to replace Liam Livingstone in the final lineup.

• Jofra Archer was the pick of bowlers in their win against Mumbai Indians. He finished with the figures of 4-0-39-3

Kings XI Punjab Team Preview & Dream11 Prediction:

• KXIP with 4 wins out of 8 matches played is at 5th position on the points table
• They lost their last match from RCB team by 8 wickets,Though we saw a gayle storm in that match. He scored brilliant 99 runs off just 64 balls
• Lokesh Rahul and Chris Gayle will probably open the inning for the Kings XI Punjab team. Both are very aggresive openers.
• Lokesh Rahul is the leading run scorer of KXIP team and 2nd highest run getter of this ipl with 335 runs in 8 matches
• Mayank Agarwal, Sarfraz Khan and Mandeep singh will handle the middel order of the team
• Ravichandran Ashwin will lead the Kings XI Punjab team as a Captain. He is also good Alrounder.
• Lokesh Rahul will do the wicket keeping for Kings XI Punjab team.

• Kings XI Punjab lost to RCB in a close finish in their last match and are looking to get back to winning ways at home.

• Chris Gayle has played a superb knock against his former team scoring 99 runs in 64 balls with 10 fours and 4 Sixers.

• David Miller is likely to be back in the side replacing Nicholas Pooran.

• Mohammed Shami is the leading wicket taker for Kings XI Punjab with 10 wickets in 8 matches at an average of 28

Head To Head

Previous five meetings between these two teams

RR : 2 wins
KXIP : 2 wins
Tied : 1

Key Players from Kings XI Punjab

• Lokesh Rahul
• Chris Gayle
• Mayank Agarwal
• Ravichandran Ashwin
• Mohammed Shami
• Sam Curran

Key Players from RR:

• Shreyas Gopal
• Jofra Archer
• Ajinkya Rahane
• Steven Smith
• Sanju Samson
• Dhawal Kulkarni

Captain and Vice Captain Choices:

• Lokesh Rahul
• Jos Buttler
• Chris Gayle
• Steven Smith

Match to be played at IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali.

This wicket is expected to good batting deck with some assistance for the pacers.

Average first innings score in Mohali : 170

No Injury concerns for both the teams.

Kings XI Punjab

Ravichandran Ashwin(c), Mayank Agarwal, Arshdeep Singh, Murugan Ashwin, Agnivesh Ayachi, Sam Curran, Chris Gayle, Harpreet Brar, Moises Henriques, Sarfarazh Khan, Mandeep Singh, David Miller, Mohammed Shami, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, Darshan Nalkande, Nicholas Pooran, KL Rahul(wk), Ankit Rajpoot, Simran Singh, Andrew Tye, Varun Chakravarthy, Hardus Viljoen.

Rajasthan Royals

Ajinkya Rahane(c), Krishnappa Gowtham, Sanju Samson(wk), Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S. Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer, Ish Sodhi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror, Ajinkya Rahane, Krishnappa Gowtham, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S. Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer, Ish Sodhi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror, Jaydev Unadkat, Varun Aaron, Oshane Thomas, Shashank Singh, Liam Livinstone, Shubham Rajane