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April 18: Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 30th match, Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Safe XI: Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson (capt), Shimron Hetmyer, Shreyas Iyer, Nitish Rana, Devdutt Padikkal, Aaron Finch, Andre Russell (vice-capt), Yuzvendra Chahal, Sunil Narine, Prasidh Krishna
Royals’ captain is expected to score big after a string of low scores. He started the tournament with a 27-ball 55 against Sunrisers Hyderabad but has gone quiet after that. Overall in the middle overs, Samson has 706 runs in 25 innings at a strike rate of 159, the most runs for any player in this period.
The allrounder got the most fantasy points in Knight Riders’ previous game against Sunrisers, scoring an unbeaten 49 off 25 balls and picking up 2 for 20. He is the second most valuable fantasy player (MVP) in this IPL so far after Hardik Pandya.
Devdutt Padikkal: The Karnataka youngster has been in form for Royals this season, scoring a quickfire 41 and 37. His scores against Knight Riders are 21, 22, 25, 25 and 32. Back him to play a crucial knock on Monday.
High risk XI: Jos Buttler (capt), Shreyas Iyer, Shimron Hetmyer, Nitish Rana, Devdutt Padikkal, Andre Russell, James Neesham, Venkatesh Iyer, Umesh Yadav, Sunil Narine, Yuzvendra Chahal (vice-capt).