The 11th match of the Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025) commenced on Sunday, March 30, at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati.
The Riyan Parag-led Rajasthan Royals (RR) are hosting the Ruturaj Gaikwad-led Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in a high-octane IPL match at their second home venue.
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Rajasthan Royals are in desperate need of a win after delivering poor performances in their first two matches of the Indian Premier League 2025.
RR opened their campaign with a 44-run loss at the hands of the Sunrisers Hyderabad and then followed it up with an 8-wicket loss against the Kolkata Knight Riders.
On the other hand, CSK started their campaign with a good 4-wicket win over Mumbai Indians but then faced their biggest-ever defeat at home at the hands of Royal Challengers Bengaluru, losing by 50 runs.
Talking about the head-to-head record, CSK lead by 16-13 against RR. However, Since 2020 though, RR have had the better of CSK with a 6-2 win record.
After the match against CSK, Rajasthan Royals would fly to Mullanpur and Ahmedabad to play away games against Punjab Kings and Gujarat Titans before flying home to Jaipur for the match against RCB.
Meanwhile, CSK’s next game is against Delhi Capitals at home, and after that, they will fly to Mullanpur to take on Punjab Kings before returning home to host the Kolkata Knight Riders.
IPL 2025: Chennai opt to chase in Guwahati
Speaking at the toss, CSK skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad stated that the surface is a good one, which is why they decided to bowl first. He also confirmed two changes to the playing XI. He stated:
“We will bowl first. Looks a good wicket, better than the last game that was played here so we’ll look to chase. So far so good, it was a quick turnaround, very little time for us but that’s how the IPL is. We have to be ready. We have come here for the first time as a franchise, good to see all the love we’ve got. Two changes, Jamie Overton comes in for Sam Curran and Vijay Shankar for Deepak Hooda.”
RR skipper Riyan Parag, meanwhile, said that the feeling of playing in front of his home crowd is surreal and revealed that they also wanted to bowl first. He said:
“Would’ve done the same as well. My hometown, been brought up here and played a lot of cricket here, surreal feeling to play in front of all these people. We’ve done well in small bits, it’s about coming together and putting up a collective performance. Same team for us.”
IPL 2025: List of the impact players nominated by RR and CSK in match 11
Chennai Super Kings: Devon Conway, Shivam Dube, Sam Curran, Shaik Rasheed, Mukesh Choudhary
Rajasthan Royals: Shubham Dubey, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kunal Singh Rathore, Kumar Kartikeya, Yudhvir Singh
IPL 2025: RR vs CSK- Playing XIs
Chennai Super Kings Playing XI: Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Vijay Shankar, Jamie Overton, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wk), Noor Ahmad, Ravichandran Ashwin, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana
Rajasthan Royals Playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag (c), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma
