IPL 2024 Auctions - Rajasthan Royals

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This is going to be a series of blogs where we will discuss the IPL 2024 Auctions, how they went for each team, what can be the strengths and weaknesses of the teams and try to predict their strongest playing XI. So Lets start of the series by analyzing Rajasthan Royals.

Rajasthan Royals(RR)

Rajasthan Royals were the winners of first ever season of Indian Premier League. But their journey following their debut season hasn't been too fruitful. They have managed to reach the playoffs a few times but haven't gone all the way to win their second trophy yet. Their best performance apart from the debut season came in 2022 where they managed to reach the final. They would love to get another trophy win under their belt soon. 


Rajasthan Royals Logo

IPL 2023 PERFORMANCE

RR finished IPL 2023 at 5th position. They had a pretty strong start to their campaign winning 4 of the first 5 matches but they lost their path from their on pretty quickly, finishing with 7 wins in total and missing out on the playoffs spot. They had an extremely strong showing from their young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal who announced himself at the world stage in an impressive style, which also earned him his India call ups pretty soon after the IPL. There were some good performances from Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson, Shimron Hetmyer, Trent Boult, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal as well. Overall, it was a bitter sweet season for them.


Rajasthan Royals


IPL 2024 AUCTIONS

Prior to the auctions, RR traded out Devdutt Padikkal to Lucknow Super Giants, and traded in Avesh Khan from the same franchise. They also let go of total 9 players from their squad including Jason Holder, Joe Root and Obed McCoy among others. But they retained most of their core team players on whom they can rely to give strong performance this year as well.

Released Players: Joe Root, Abdul Basith, Jason Holder, Akash Vashishth, Kuldip Yadav, Obed McCoy, Murugan Ashwin, KC Cariappa, KM Asif, Devdutt Padikkal

Full Squad: Sanju Samson (c), Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Avesh Khan, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger  

Strongest Playing XI: Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(c)(wk), Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Yuzvendra Chahal, Prasidh Krishna

Rajsthan Royals Retained Players


The playing XI of RR looks pretty strong with all the bases covered. Trent Boult will once again be leading their bowling attack who has provided them with early breakthroughs so many times. Avesh Khan getting traded in looks a good pick to strengthen their fast bowling department which will also be boosted by return of Prasidh Krishna who missed out last season due to injury. While with Ashwin and Chahal controlling the spin department, their bowling attack looks as good as any other team. Their batting also has good fire power  with Jaiswal and Buttler at the top, while having the west Indian flare in form of Hetmyer and Powell. Powell also looks a very good addition to the team as now the finishing responsibility lies just not in the hands of Hetmyer. They will need Riyan Parag to give better performances this season as they have shown a lot of trust in this young gun who has shown what he is capable of doing in the ongoing domestic season and is in lethal form, but hasn't fired in IPL yet.

Areas Of Concern

  • One of the concern for them will be the lack of equally good backup players in case any of their main player gets injured or is unavailable for selection. 
  • Another one would be not having the depth in their batting order with the all rounder in Ravichandran Ashwin batting at no 7 whereas teams in recent times have preferred good big hitters at no 7 or even sometimes till no 8. 
  • Similarly, they don't seem to have a good 6th bowling option if one of their main bowlers has an off day. Riyan Parag and Rovman Powell can roll their arm over little bit but they are definitely not nearly as good to complete 4 overs on most days. 
Let me know your thoughts on this squad and playing XI in the comments below.


 

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