Follow UsOn the first double-header day of the restarted Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, Rajasthan Royals (RR) will host Punjab Kings (PBKS) in a day game at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on May 18 (Sunday).
While RR are out of the qualification race, they have a chance to spoil PBKS’ chances well, who are sitting in the third position with 15 points from 11 games. Shreyas Iyer led Punjab, though, and would look to get two more points and get themselves a sureshot in the playoffs.
RR Probable Playing 11
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Riyan Parag(C), Kunal Singh Rathore(WK), Dhruv Jurel(WK), Shimron Hetmyer, Lhuan-dre Pretorius(WK) Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Akash Madhwal
Impact Player: Maheesh Theekshana
PBKS Probable Playing 11
Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh(WK), Shreyas Iyer(C), Josh Inglis(WK), Nehal Wadhera, Mitchell Owen, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh
Impact Player: Yuzvendra Chahal
RR Squad for IPL 2025
Kunal Singh Rathore, DC Jurel (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, V Suryavanshi, R Parag (C), W Hasaranga, TU Deshpande, Akash Mandwaal, M Theekshana, Fazalhaq Farooqi, SV Samson, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Singh, K Kartikeya, Kwena Maphaka, Ashok Sharma, Jofra Archer, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, N Burger
PBKS Squad for IPL 2025
P Simran Singh, JP Inglis (wk), N Wadhera, S Iyer (C), P Arya, Shashank Singh, MP Stoinis, M Jansen, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vishnu Vinod, Harnoor Singh, Pyla Avinash, Suryansh Shedge, Musheer Khan, AM Hardie, P Dubey, Azmatullah Omarzai, Vijaykumar Vyshak, KR Sen, YS Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Mitchell Owen, KA Jamieson
You can catch live-streaming of RR vs PBKS and every other IPL 2025 game on Star Sports Network (TV) and JioHotstar (Digital).
What Will Be The Match Timings For RR vs PBKS In IPL 2025?
The RR vs PBKS match will kick off on May 17 at 7:30 PM IST.
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Safe Picks: Prabhsimran Singh (PBKS), Yashasvi Jaiswal (RR), Yuzvendra Chahal (PBKS), Wanindu Hasaranga (RR)
Risky Picks: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (RR), Priyansh Arya (PBKS), Jofra Archer (RR), Marco Jansen (PBKS)
RR and PBKS have played 29 games against each other in the IPL, with the former winning 17 and the latter coming out on top in 11 matches. One match had no result. Click here to get the head-to-head numbers.
At current from, PBKS look like the team to beat and hence they are the favourites going into this contest.
With 437 runs under his bag, Prabhsimran Singh is the best batter between the two sides and that too, by a long stretch.
Arshdeep Singh has taken 16 wickets in 11 games, while Yuzvendra Chahal has 14 in the same number of games, but on a spin-friendly wicket and in a day game, Chahal would likely be the best bowler.
In the four IPL 2025 matches hosted before this one at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, twice the team batting first has breached the 200-run-mark and once more than 200 have been chased down as well. In the other two games, the batting-first score was near 180, thus giving a clear indication that it's a batting wicket.
It is going to be hot as hell in Jaipur with temperatures touching 40 degrees Celsius at match time, which will be between 3:30 to 7:30 pm IST. Players will have to fight dry heat to compete and win the game.