Fort Jaipur next stop for RCB on road trip
Preview of the match between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Jaipur
Match facts
April 29, 2013Start time 1600 (1030 GMT)
Big Picture
For a team at the top end of the points table, Royal Challengers Bangalore seem to have many doubters at the moment, all of them asking whether the side is capable of winning away from the Chinnaswamy Stadium. They did nothing to dispel the doubts with an utterly sub-par performance against Mumbai Indians on Saturday, and next up they have one of the tougher away assignments in the IPL: Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur.Form guide
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In the spotlight
Tillakaratne Dilshan has 76 runs in five innings at 15.20 in this IPL. More damningly, his strike rate has been 81.72. Against Mumbai Indians, facing fellow Sri Lankan Lasith Malinga, he swung and missed with regularity. He has done so a lot this season. Royal Challengers will have to decide whether the out-of-form Dilshan commands one of the overseas players spots in their XI, especially with the Jaipur pitch promising a stern test for the batsmen facing the new ball.Stats and Trivia
- Chris Gayle, with 54.97, is the only player with a batting average over 50 in the IPL (min 1000 runs). Shane Watson is one of only three players averaging in the 40s - his 42.08 is fourth on the list, behind Gayle, Michael Hussey and Shaun Marsh
- Ajit Chandila's economy rate of 4.66 is the best among bowlers who have bowled 15 overs or more in IPL 2013
Quotes
"Just one off day and people have already started saying we can't win away from home. But the [previous] two [away] games that we lost were not thrashings but last-ball finishes. Had we executed our plans well, we would have had eight wins out of nine."Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli is not panicking after his team's loss to Mumbai Indians
Rajasthan Royals offspinner Ajit Chandila defines his role in a team that has been building strategies around pacemen
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo