Jaipur, April 11: Rajasthan Royals are favorite against Delhi DareDevils in their IPL-4 match tomorrow at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium.
IPL-1 champion Royals morale was very high after winning their opening match while Delhi lost its opener.
Rajasthan had good track record at their home ground and winning most of the game here. The forme champion Royals made a flying start in this season by winning the opener.
Royals had good batting line up like Swapnil Asnodkar, Johan Botha, new face of Royals Rahul Dravid, three consecutive century struck for the Ranji champion Rajasthan Ashok Menaria and Amit Paunikar are the good batsmen of Royals.
Botha shone against Deccan Charchers by hitting unbeaten 67 while Siddartha Trivedi, Amit Singh did well against former champion Hyderabad taking three wickets each while Shane Warne two for 21 and Menaria is also a useful spinner.
But New Zealander Jacob Oram, who replaced Pual Collingwood is injured and whether he will play or not will be clear by tomorrow.
On the other hand, Delhi DareDevils are led by sensational batsman Virendra Sehwag. Unmukt Chand, Aaron Finch, Naman Ojha and Venugopal Rao are also good batsmen, who have the capacity to make good scores while Team India discard all-rouner Irfan Pathan, Roloef van der Merwe, Morne Morkel and Ashok Dinda are good bowlers.
But Delhi disappointed in their first match against last year’s runners-up Mumbai thrashing by eight wickets at their home ground.
Their batting line-up collapsed after Sehwag’s departure. Besides Sehwag, only Naman Ojha and Rao could reach double figures.
Remaining batsmen failed to make the double figure mark.
The preparations of the match has been completed. Both teams held practice sessions at the RCA Cricket academy today. Delhi DareDevils team reached Jaipur in the morning.
The Squads: Rajasthan Royals: Shane Warne (c), Swapnil Asnodkar, Stuart Binny, Johan Botha, Deepak Chahar, Ankeet Chavan, Aakash Chopra, Aditya Dole, Nayan Doshi, Rahul Dravid, Samad Fallah, Faiz Fazal, Ashok Menaria, Sumit Narwal, Jacob Oram, Pankaj Singh, Amit Paunikar, Ajinkya Rahane, Abhishek Raut, Dinesh Salunkhe, Pinal Shah, Amit Singh, Shaun Tait, Ross Taylor, Siddharth Trivedi, Shane Watson, Dishant Harendra Yagnik Delhi DareDevils: Virender Sehwag (c), Irfan Pathan, Naman Ojha, Ajit Agarkar, Ashok Dinda, Umesh Yadav, Venugopal Rao, Aavishkar Salvi, Prashant Naik, Rajesh Pawar, Robin Bist, S Sriram, Tejashwi Yadav, Unmukt Chand, Varun Aaron, Vikash Mishra, Vivek Yadav, Yogesh Nagar, Shahbaz Nadeem, David Warner, James Hopes, Morne Morkel, Aaron Finch, Mathew Wade, Roloef van der Merwe, Andrew McDonald, Travis Birt, Collin Ingram, Robert Frylinck.
-Agencies