IPL RR Team 2025: Rajasthan Royals had opted to clasp six players including Sanju Samson and Riyan Parag. (PHOTO: Rajasthan Royals' X handle)
Rajasthan Royals entered the auction retaining arsenic galore arsenic six players. So they had small to enactment around, but that didn’t halt them from uncovering their close targets. Like Mumbai Indians, they excessively had their batting radical from past play intact, truthful each their eyes were connected assembling a beardown bowling group. While doing truthful they did instrumentality a mates of immense punts, going for Jofra Archer and Wanindu Hasaranga – 2 players with a worrying fittingness grounds – who are expected to play important roles. That is conscionable a caution arsenic they excessively walked retired knowing what their XI is.
Batsmen
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi.
Wicketkeepers
Sanju Samson, Dhruv Jurel, Kunal Singh Rathore.
Allrounders
Riyan Parag (spin), Nitish Rana (spin), Wanindu Hasaranga (spin), Yudhvir Singh (pace).
Spinners
Maheesh Theekshana, Kumar Kartikeya.
Fast bowlers
Jofra Archer, Sandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande, Akash Madhwal, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kwena Maphaka, Ashok Sharma.
Early impressions
In the past fewer seasons, they person gone astir spending large connected their archetypal XI and it continued present astatine Jeddah arsenic well. With Jaiswal, Samson, Jurel, Hetmyer and Parag already successful the mix, they added the 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Shubham Dubey, Nitish Rana and Yudhvir Singh arsenic different batting option. How overmuch they tin beryllium connected them is the question. In the rotation department, they tried to get backmost some R Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal earlier yet settling for Sri Lanka’s Hasaranga and Theekshana. The 2 are contrasting to the ones they had, but are T20 globetrotters and could payment the conditions astatine the SMS stadium successful Jaipur. The gait artillery is mostly babelike connected Archer, Sandeep and Tushar. While they bash person a beardown XI successful manus that tin set to antithetic questions, determination are inactive concerns astir the deficiency of options.
Area of concern
An wounded to 1 of their cardinal accelerated bowlers could extremity up costing them a batch arsenic it is bladed connected inexperience. Even back-up batting options are enactment successful progress.
Possible XII
1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Sanju Samson (wk), 3 Nitish Rana, 4 Riyan Parag, 5 Dhruv Jurel, 6 Shimron Hetmyer, 7 Wanindu Hasaranga, 8 Shubham Dubey/Akash Madhwal, 9 Jofra Archer, 10 Maheesh Theekshana, 11 Sandeep Sharma, 12 Tushar Deshpande.