The Indian Premier League continues to head towards the halfway point of the competition on Wednesday when one more match takes place in the IPL 2025 campaign as the Delhi Capitals host the Rajasthan Royals in Delhi.
Delhi start the day on top of the table and can move two points clear of a significant pack if they can pick up a win here. Rajasthan are at the other end of the table and while they aren’t out of the competition by any means, they need to start winning soon.
Delhi Capitals
The Delhi Capitals have won four of their five matches going into this contest but it is their last outing that they lost so even though they have looked a very good side and are setting the early pace, they have to show a bit of character in this one to point out that the defeat last time out was just a bit of a blip. If they can do that then they will be the ones that everyone is chasing and if eight wins is the number for the finals they would have five of them and could probably limp into the postseason.
Delhi have been one of the best teams in the competition with the bat this season. That probably isn’t a surprise because they have so much batting depth in their ranks and with the impact player rule they can stick an extra batter in. Where they have maybe surprised a touch is with the ball, although any team that has the likes of Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav and Mohit Sharma in their ranks should be competitive in the bowling department.
Rajasthan Royals
The Rajasthan Royals go into this match with a 2-4 record so they will be keen to pick up a third win as they reach the halfway point of their campaign. To be fair to them, I do think they have played a little bit better than their record would suggest but there is no doubt that they have some issues which need resolving. It isn’t ideal that they have to switch between different home grounds but to their credit they don’t moan, they just get on with the job.
The problem that Rajasthan have is that when they haven’t been able to get the opposition batting effort under control in the powerplay they get carted all round the park so there is a huge emphasis on their new ball bowlers to come up with the goods. There is no shortage of batting class in this team so if they can manage things with the ball then there is no reason why they can’t overpower sides when they have the bat in hand, which you have to do to be successful in this competition these days.
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Key Players
Karun Nair was new to the Delhi Capitals side but it looked like he had been a permanent fixture in the middle order for them. He is likely to get another chance to show that he belongs in a side full of top quality batting.
The Rajasthan Royals are going to need to take early wickets to have any chance of restricting the Delhi Capitals in this match and with that in mind they would hope that Jofra Archer can deliver some of his best stuff.
Betting
In terms of this being a good watch for a neutral like myself I would hope that the Rajasthan Royals turn up and be competitive in this match but the Delhi Capitals look a good side and might well have too many bases covered for the Royals to win here. Rajasthan have shown in their two wins that when everything comes together they can be a tough nut to crack but there are some matchups which really go against them in this match.
The big problem for the Rajasthan Royals is that they are averaging less than five wickets per match and if you don’t get deep into this Delhi side early on then big trouble awaits. Even if you do they have enough depth to get out of trouble. When you consider too that KL Rahul has a good record against Jofra Archer, Mukesh a good record over Yashasvi Jaiswal and if neither of those come off Kuldeep Yadav is the most economical bowler in the competition, there is just too much on the Delhi side before we consider home advantage. I like the Capitals here.
Tips
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