The 9th match of the Indian Premier League will be played today in Jaipur. The match will be played at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium between Rajasthan Royals, the first champion in the history of the league, and Delhi Capitals, who are waiting for their first title. Delhi captain Rishabh Pant will play his 100th match in IPL. For the last 6 years, Rajasthan has not been able to beat Delhi on its home ground. Rajasthan's last win was in 2018. After this, a match was played in 2019, in which Delhi won. After this, both the teams will now face each other. This will be the second match between the two teams in the 17th season. Where Rajasthan started with a win by defeating Lucknow. At the same time, Delhi had to face defeat against Punjab.
So far 27 matches have been played between Rajasthan and Delhi in IPL. Rajasthan won 13 of the 14 matches played by Delhi. So far 6 matches have been played between the two teams at Rajasthan's home ground, Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur. Of these, Rajasthan won 4 and Delhi won 2. That is, Rajasthan has won 66.67% of the matches against Delhi on home ground.
If we talk about the pitch here, the pitch of Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur usually proves to be helpful for both batsmen and bowlers. Fast bowlers are expected to get help in the initial overs of the match. Due to the big boundary, it will be difficult for the batsmen to score runs. So far 53 IPL matches have been played in this stadium. Out of which the teams batting first won 19 matches and the teams batting later won 34 matches.
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Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Josh Buttler, Ryan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Trent Boult, Nandre Berger and Sandeep Sharma.
Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant (wk-captain), David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Shai Hope, Ricky Bhui/Abhishek Porel, Axar Patel, Sumit Kumar/Lalit Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Enrique Natta and Ishant Sharma.