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14-Apr-2013 05:05:00 GMT
RR vs KXIP, IPL 2013, Jaipur

Rajasthan Royals Host Kings XI Punjab

Jaipur: Hosts Rajasthan Royals will look to regroup and get back to winning ways after their unexpected loss to lowly Pune Warriors, when they take on Kings XI Punjab in their IPL match on Sunday.

Aiding Rajasthan in their quest will be the home crowd and the track at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium.

But skipper Rahul Dravid and his men will first have to put the loss to Pune behind.

The team selection will surely be a brainstorming exercise for the hosts because of the fitness of the likes of Shane Watson, Shaun Tait and Rahul Shukla and the resurfacing of the 'slapgate' controversy, which might have affected medium pacer S Sreesanth, who tweeted 44 times in a two-hour span on Friday.

This could have a bearing on the selection of the playing XI.

Rajasthan Royals had begun the tournament with back-to-back convincing wins but were pegged back a bit after their humiliating loss to Pune, who had broken their eleven-match losing streak with a seven-wicket victory.

Now, the hosts would be more than happy to be back on the home turf.

Their batting looks good with Ajinkya Rahane and Rahul Dravid in good touch and high on confidence.

Despite being the oldest Indian player in IPL 6, Dravid has scored two fifties and has looked as solid as ever, often playing some uncharacteristic adventurous strokes.

On the other hand the visitors, who has come here with one victory and a loss in their two outings, are short on confidence after their humiliating 10-wicket loss to Chennai Super Kings.

They had started with an eight-wicket thumping of Pune and would be hoping to get their act right.

They have a couple of promising youngsters in Sandeep Sharma and Manan Vohra, both of whom were part of the India Under-19 team, apart from left-arm medium pacer Aniket Choudhary.

With former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist at the helm, they are not short on experience.

The skipper along with David Hussey, Mandeep Singh give solidity to their batting while India all-rounder Praveen Kumar will spearhead the bowling attack, which includes Ryan Harris, Azhar Mehmood and Parvinder Awana.

Teams

Rajasthan Royals
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 (wk), AM Rahane, Sachin Baby, SV Samson, OA Shah, R Shukla, A Singh, S Sreesanth, SW Tait, P Tambe, SK Trivedi, SR Watson, DH Yagnik (wk)

Kings XI Punjab AC Gilchrist (captain & wk), P Awana, Azhar Mahmood, BA Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, PP Chawla, SD Chitnis, A Choudhary, MS Gony, Gurkeerat Singh, Harmeet Singh, RJ Harris, DJ Hussey, P Kumar, Mandeep Singh, SE Marsh, AD Mascarenhas, DA Miller, LA Pomersbach, N Saini, Sandeep Sharma, R Sathish, Sunny Singh, PC Valthaty, M Vohra

Match facts
Sunday April 14, 2013 (day/night)
Start time 20:00 local (1430 GMT)


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