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Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals will look to close in on a play-off berth and consolidate their position in the points table when they take on a struggling Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League on Tuesday.
Daredevils were routed by Sunrisers Hyderabad by six wickets in their previous encounter as their big-ticket stars once again failed to fire with the bat and folded up for a pathetic 80 runs, the second lowest total of the season after CSK's 79 against Mumbai Indians.
Daredevils were living dangerously over the past few weeks with a couple of victories just about keeping their campaign alive in the tournament. But their chances are as good as over after they dished out yet another horrendous batting display.
Virender Sehwag, Mahela Jayawardene and David Warner went out cheaply against Hyderabad but what was more surprising to watch was their atrocious shot selection.
Daredevils had included two overseas all-rounders, Johan Botha and Jeevan Mendis, into their playing XI against Sunrisers to turn around their ebbing fortunes but the move did not produce the desired result.
Royals, high on confidence after chasing down a challenging 179-run target against a hapless Pune Warriors on Sunday, will leave no stone unturned to win this crucial game and make a confident surge towards a play-off berth.
After Daredevils, Royals will have one more game to play at home on May 12 and going by their poor away record -- four losses out of five games -- they won't want to leave their fortunes hanging in balance with run-rates coming into play.
Royals are tied with RCB, Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers, all of them having 14 points from 11 games.
The way their inspirational captain Rahul Dravid led from the front against Pune Warriors with a classy half-century, has certainly helped the hosts settle their opening combination.
In the company of Ajinkya Rahane, he added 98 runs for the opening-wicket partnership.
Dravid would also like to see them come good against a fragile Delhi batting line-up. It would be interesting to see whether temperamental pacer S Sreesanth gets a chance against the DD.
Teams from:
Rajasthan Royals: Rahul Dravid (Capt.), Ajinkya Rahane, Sanju Samson (wk), Shane Watson, Brad Hodge, Stuart Binny Owais Shah, James Faulkner, Ajit Chandila, Siddharth Trivedi, Sreesanth, Brad Hogg, Fidel Edwards, Kevon Cooper, Kushal Perera, Samuel Badree, Shaun Tait, Ankit Chavan, Ashok Maneria, Dishant Yagnik (wk), Harmeet Singh, Kumar Borsea, Pravin Thambe, Rahul Shukla, Sachin Baby, Shreevats Goswami, Vikramjeet Malik.
Delhi Daredevils: Mahela Jayawardene (Capt.), Virender Sehwag, David Warner, Umesh Yadav, Manpreet Juneja, Ashish Nehra, Naman Ojha (wk), Irfan Pathan, Andre Russell, Kedar Jadhav (wk), Ajit Agarkar, Johan Botha, Unmukt Chand, Morne Morkel, Shabaz Nadeem, Ben Rohrer, Royston Dias, Muralitharan Gautam, Sidharth Kaul, Jeevan Mendis, Yogesh Nagar, Sujeet Nayak, Pavan Negi, Aristh Singhvi, Roelof van der Merwe, Venugopal Rao and Gulam Bodi.
Match facts
Tuesday May 7, 2013 (day/night)
Start time 16:00 local (1030 GMT)
