With eight points from 11 games, RR are placed second from bottom in the eight-team table and a loss on Saturday will end their slim chances of qualifying for the knockout stage.
Rajasthan Royals' director of cricket Kumara Sangakkara blamed the 'careless' approach of his batting unit in the first 10 overs for the 33-run loss against Delhi Capitals on Saturday.
Royals' new Director of Cricket Kumar Sangakkara is confident that the team's young Indian fast bowlers will rise to the challenge in this year's Indian Premier League.
Images from the IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians, in Delhi, on Thursday.
KKR have so far failed to come together as a unit and slipped to sixth in the table after starting the tournament on a high against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
RR will have to get their combination right as only four foreigners can make the playing XI.
Having endured a tough outing against the same side in 2019, it's now a story of going from being zero to hero for Siraj.
Kings XI run into a RCB squad which has grown in confidence by leaps and bounds since their last meeting.
South Africa will be without limited-overs stalwarts Hashim Amla and JP Duminy for their white-ball tour of Australia next month but welcome back all-rounder Chris Morris from injury.
Steyn replied to a tweet from a user who pointed out that Chris Morris was not named in the squad as he made himself unavailable for the T20I series.
KL Rahul and Co would like forget the unsavoury incident and focus on the task ahead.
Kohli has always led from the front but he knows his search for a maiden title will remain incomplete if the team doesn't perform in all departments.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player Index after 37 World Cup 2023 games.
South Africa finally got a World Cup win under their belt as they eased to a nine-wicket triumph over Afghanistan at Sophia Gardens on Saturday to keep alive their hopes of a semi-final berth.
Jos Buttler announced his return to form with belligerent maiden T20 hundred as Rajasthan Royals trounced SunRisers Hyderabad by 55 runs.
RR have a lot of issues to sort out, particularly in the absence of key foreign players like Jofra Archer and Ben Stokes.
MI are coming into the match after suffering back-to-back losses
Images from the IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and SunRisers Hyderabad, in Delhi, on Sunday.
'Hopefully, if something like this happens we can pull it off. In the second innings, there was much more dew, so the slower ball wasn't stopping. So we had to do something in the second innings.'
While DC made a superb start under new captain Rishabh Pant, RR suffered a four-run defeat against Punjab Kings
The 23 year old plundered bowlers, over after over, getting the fours, sixes and the singles and twos at will.
After eight defeats in 11 outings, Chennai Super Kings will look to give their forgettable campaign a semblance of respectability when they take on in-form Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League in Dubai on Sunday.
Delhi Daredevils will be aiming to display more impact in their batting department as they face a formidable challenge from defending champions Sunrisers Hyderabad in an IPL encounter, in Hyderabad, on Wednesday.
Check out the Rajasthan Royals squad for the eighth edition of the Indian Premier League.
Intense bidding is expected to be the order of the day when 10 teams jostle to grab their preferred players in the IPL players' auction in Kochi on Friday.
For KKR, the biggest cause of concern will be the availability of big-hitter Andre Russell, who hurt his knee when he dived into the advertisement boards after missing a catch on Saturday.
Both DC and RCB have looked solid so far and are placed atop the standings with three wins out of four games each.
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After scores of 14 and 1, Virat Kohli is due for a big one and will be hoping to spend more time in the middle when Royal Challengers Bangalore take on Mumbai Indians in the IPL in Dubai.
RCB's Director of Cricket Operations Mike Hesson said the plan of the franchise in the auction was to look at players that will combine well with the retained squad.
A new look Kings XI Punjab under Ravichandran Ashwin will take on Delhi Daredevils in their opening encounter of IPL-2018 here tomorrow, as both sides look to begin the T20 tournament on a winning note.
Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Eoin Morgan though rued his team's ordinary batting.
While Moeen Ali sparkled with excellent figures of 3/7 in three overs, Ravindra Jadeja took 2/28 in four overs as the two spinners consigned Royals to a thumping 45-run defeat.
Rajasthan Royals lost five wickets for eight runs in the space of 21 balls and their hopes were all but over after being reduced to 95/7 in the 15th over.
KL Rahul said that his team is not for the light-hearted as they have a knack of producing nail-bitters.
The RCB spinners choked KKR for runs; and in the batsmen's bid to make up the run-rate KKR lost wickets regularly.
Images from the IPL match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals, in Mumbai, on Saturday.
Lack of intent in Daredevils players has been very surprising.
Images from Wednesday's IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Capitals, in Chennai.
Images from the IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals, in Bengaluru, on Sunday.
