In the Indian Premier League 2024, the Rajasthan Royals will play the Punjab Kings on Wednesday in the well-known surroundings of the ACA Stadium in Guwahati in an attempt to end their three-game losing run and guarantee a postseason berth.
On May 15, the RR vs. PBKS game is set to begin at 7:30 PM IST. In India, live streaming of the IPL 2024 match will be free of charge.
In a low-scoring game on Sunday, the Royals lost their most recent away encounter to the Chennai Super Kings by five wickets.
Despite the brilliant performances of Yuzvendra Chahal with 1/22 and Ravichandran Ashwin with 2/35, CSK won the match with 10 balls remaining. With an undefeated 47 off 35 balls, Riyan Parag led the Royals in scoring.
Last week at Dharamsala, Punjab Kings suffered a 60-run defeat to Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
With 486 runs from 12 games at an average of 60.75 and a strike rate of 158.30, captain Sanju Samson tops the Royals’ batting records in the 2024 Indian Premier League. Parag, on the other hand, comes in second with 483 runs from 11 appearances to the crease, averaging 60.37 and hitting at 153.82.
With 15 wickets from 12 games, Chahal leads the Royals bowling order this season, while Trent Boult and Avesh Khan both have 11 wickets from 12 games.
Standings for the royals vs kings
With 16 points and a net run rate of +0.349, the Rajasthan Royals are presently ranked second in the IPL 2024 rankings. So far this season, the Royals have won eight of their twelve games.
Punjab Kings, meanwhile, have participated in 12 games this season, winning four and losing eight. With eight points and an NRR of -0.423, PBKS is presently ranked last in the IPL rankings.
royals vs kings form in IPL
Before Wednesday’s encounter, the Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals had each won two of their previous five IPL 2024 games.
Rajasthan Royals last five matches
| Opponent | Venue | Result | Match Date | Margin |
| CSK | Chennai | Lost | May 12, 2024 | 5 wickets |
| DC | Delhi | Lost | May 7, 2024 | 20 runs |
| SRH | Hyderabad | Lost | May 2, 2024 | 1 run |
| LSG | Lucknow | Won | April 27, 2024 | 7 wickets |
| MI | Jaipur | Won | April 22, 2024 | 9 wickets |
Punjab Kings last five matches
| Opponent | Venue | Result | Match Date | Margin |
| RCB | Dharamsala | Lost | May 9, 2024 | 60 runs |
| CSK | Dharamsala | Lost | May 5, 2024 | 28 runs |
| CSK | Chennai | Won | May 1, 2024 | 7 wickets |
| KKR | Kolkata | Won | April 26, 2024 | 8 wickets |
| GT | Mullanpur | Lost | April 21, 2024 | 3 wickets |
The two clubs have faced off against one another 27 times in the IPL, with the Royals winning 16 of those games and the Kings winning 11.
The Royals defeated the Kings by three wickets in their most recent IPL 2024 match, which took place in Mullanpur last month.
Players from the Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals
In the Royals’ most recent game against CSK in Chennai, Ashwin and Chahal were outstanding. At the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Ashwin took two wickets in his four overs to reach 50.
After going wicketless in two of the previous three games, Chahal was back among the wickets. The leg-spinner had his most economical stint in the Royals’ past nine games, giving up only 5.50 runs per over.
During the middle overs, the Royals bowling team put on a strong show, giving up only one boundary for 39 balls between the seventh and thirteenth overs. They were able to push the game to the very end and avoid suffering a significant loss in the net run rate count as a result.
In the batting department, Parag helped the Royals get a solid score on a slow and challenging wicket by hitting three sixes and a four. Along with Parag, Dhruv Jurel helped save the Royals, who were in danger of being 91/3 in the 15th over, with a helpful cameo of 28 off 18 balls.
Ashwin has taken 20 wickets in 20 games against his old side, while Chahal leads the current Royals group in wicket-taking against PBKS with 30 from 20 games.
With 720 runs in 22 games at an average of 37.89 and a strike rate of 143.42, captain Samson leads the Royals in scoring against PBKS. In their 2021 encounter against the Kings, Sanju Samson scored 119, which was also his greatest IPL score.
Keshav Maharaj and Avesh Khan both had outstanding efforts with the ball, taking two wickets apiece to limit the Kings’ batting in the rematch against PBKS last month. Shimron Hetmyer scored 27 off just 10 balls in the closing moments, sealing the victory for the Royals with one ball remaining.
Sanju Samson (c), Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Rovman Powell, Kunal Singh Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Donovan Ferreira, Abid Mushtaq, Avesh Khan, Trent Boult, Nandre Burger, Yuzvendra Chahal, Navdeep Saini, Sandeep Sharma, Kuldeep Sen, Tanush Kotian, and Keshav Maharaj are the Rajasthan Royals squad.
Shikhar Dhawan (c), Jonny Bairstow, Harpreet Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Rilee Rossouw, Jitesh Sharma, Sam Curran, Ashutosh Sharma, Shashank Singh, Shivam Singh, Sikandar Raza, Atharva Taide, Chris Woakes, Arshdeep Singh, Rahul Chahar, Nathan Ellis, Harpreet Brar, Vidwath Kaverappa, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Tanay Thyagarajan, Prince Choudhary, Vishwanath Singh, and the Punjab Kings team
Statistics for the Rajasthan Royals vs Punjab Kings
- 31: Sanju Samson needs one more victory to tie the record for most victories as RR skipper
- 50: Yashasvi Jaiswal will play in his 50th IPL game.
- 50: Riyan Parag needs three catches to reach 50 in T20s,
- Ravichandran Ashwin is three catches away from reaching 50 in the IPL.
- 100: In T20 cricket, Tom Kohler-Cadmore needs one catch to get 100.
- 300: In T20 cricket, Sanju Samson needs three sixes to reach 300 sixes
- 350: Sanju Samson needs 126 runs to reach 4500 runs in the IPL,
- which is two fours shy from 350 fours.
Where to watch live Punjab Kings vs. Rajasthan Royals
The Jio Cinema App and website will stream the Rajasthan Royals vs. Punjab Kings game live. India’s Star Sports Network TV networks will broadcast the RR vs. PBKS game live. The game is scheduled to begin at 7:30 PM IST.
Records for RR vs PBKS at ACA Stadium
- RR’s highest team total against DC in 2023 was 199/4.
- DC’s lowest team total against RR in 2023 was 142/9.
- Shikhar Dhawan had the highest individual score of 86* in the PBKS vs. RR match in 2023.
- Nathan Ellis’s 4/30 bowling stats from PBKS vs. RR in 2023 were the best.
- Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler’s 98, the first wicket in RR vs. DC in 2023, was the highest partnership.
- Batting first, win rate: 100% (2 Won; 0 Lost)
- First innings average: 198
- Average victory score in the first innings: 198
