The thirteenth edition of Indian Premier League or IPL is going to start soon in March 2021 and cricket fans are all geared up for yet another exciting addition of the short version of cricket. IPL has been boon to cricket in many ways. It is not only made cricket more exciting to watch, it is also provided a platform to the new as well as old players to show off their capable of doing. In this article, we are going to have a closer look at one of the exciting teams of IPL Rajasthan Royals.
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Rajasthan Royals Team 2021 – RR Vivo IPL 14 Squad List
The first IPL was held in 2008 and Rajasthan Royals won that inaugural IPL trophy. Then captain Shane Warne is now a co-owner of Rajasthan Royals. IPL has come a long way in this journey of over a decade. So have Rajasthan Royals.
- Akash Singh
- Andrew Tye
- Aniruddha joshi
- Ankit Rajpoot
- Anuj Rawat
- Ben Stokes
- David Miller
- Jaydev Unadkat
- Jofra Archer
- Jos Buttler
- Kartik Tyagi
- Mahipal Lomror
- Manan Vohra
- Mayank Markande
- Oshane Thomas
- Rahul Tewatia
- Riyan Parag
- Robin Uthappa
- Sanju Samson
- Shashank Singh
- Shreyas Gopal
- Steven Smith
- Tom Curran
- Varun Aaron
- Yashasvi Jaiswal
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Rajasthan Royals Caption and Key Players
The name Rajasthan Royals clearly indicated its dominance and popularity in Rajasthan region and the nearby areas. However, their fan following is international due to the kind of players it has. Most of the players in the team are either from other parts of India or Overseas purchases. Some of the key players includes there Captain Steven Smith who have had a roller coaster ride in IPL. Then they have some good batsman in form of Robin Uthappa and good bowlers like Ben Stokes. Their home ground is Sawai Mansingh Stadium situated in Jaipur.
Rajasthan Royals Controversies
RR is also being surrounded by some kind of controversy or the other. It was banned in the 2015 and 2016 edition due to the betting charges. Apart from it, their captain Steven Smith was also prevented from captaining in IPL due to the charges of ball tampering in which he was also found guilty.
However Rajasthan Royals have emerged from all these controversies and we hope that they are going to perform better and leave all these controversies behind and let their performance speak up for them. Expectations are always have Rajasthan Royals. Smith has been one of the most successful captains of all times. He has taken Australia to great victories and made it is one of the best teams of the world. It is quite possible that he can do the same magic to Rajasthan Royals as well. The IPL is going to start in March and we hope that Rajasthan Royals is going to come out of all the controversies fresh with some great performance and entertain us all the way in the IPL.
What to expect from Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2021?
All and all Rajasthan Royal team is quite balanced and is always considered as one of the contenders of winning IPL. However, in the last couple of seasons its performance has been quite disappointing They have failed to perform in repeat the magic that they did in the first edition of IPL. Apart from it, there are always surrounded by some kind of controversy or the other at individual level of players or as a team.