Rajasthan Royals will square off against the defending champions Gujarat Titans at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur on Friday. An interesting rivalry has been brewing between these two teams and both of them will be looking to stamp their authority in their second meeting of the season.
When these two teams met earlier in the season, Rajasthan Royals had won by three wickets and thus they will be looking to replicate the same performance.
On the other hand, GT will be looking to bounce back stronger after they could not chase down a subpar total of 131 runs against Delhi Capitals in their previous match.
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Vijay Shankar has scored 936 runs in 58 IPL matches and he needs another 64 runs to complete 1000 runs in the tournament.
RR opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has scored 975 runs in 32 IPL matches and he needs another 25 runs to get to the landmark of 1000 runs.
Devdutt Padikkal has amassed 1454 runs in 51 IPL matches and he requires another 46 runs more to reach 1500 runs in the tournament.
Yuzvendra Chahal has snared 178 wickets in 140 IPL matches and he needs another six wickets to leapfrog Dwayne Bravo’s tally of 183 scalps and thus become the most successful bowler in IPL history.
Ravichandran Ashwin has taken 170 wickets in 193 IPL matches and thus he needs one more wicket to leapfrog Lasith Malinga’s tally of wickets.
Sanju Samson has scored 294 fours in the IPL and needs another six boundaries to complete 300 fours in the tournament.
Jos Buttler has smoked 145 sixes in the tournament and he needs another five sixes to reach 150 sixes in the IPL.