IPL 2020 Match 45 - RR vs MI Fantasy Preview

It’s another Sunday double and the first game of the day is between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings. Soon later, the action moves to Abu Dhabi for IPL 2020 Match 45 as Rajasthan Royals have one more opportunity to get a win and make a big to make the playoffs, currently struggling with 4 wins in 7 games in this tournament so far, only above CSK on the points table.

On the other hand is Mumbai Indians who have had a fabulous season so far with 7 wins in 11 games and quite deservingly, they’re sitting at the top of the IPL 2020 points table. While Rajasthan had a long winning streak against Mumbai prior to IPL 2020, it was the latter who emerged victorious in the reverse fixture. Keep reading for our complete Nostragamus (Get Rs.200 FREE) fantasy preview of the RR vs MI game…

Match info

Tournament: Indian Premier League 2020.
Date: 25th October 2020, 7:30pm IST.
Venue: Sheikh Zayed International Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Capacity: 20,000+
Series status: Match 45 of the round robin stage.

Recent form

RR: L W L L W
MI: W L W W W

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Numbers

Head to head in last 5 IPL games, Rajasthan leads 4-1.
Steve Smith average against the Mumbai Indians – 46.4.
Sanju Samson – 6 single digits scores in last 9 games.

Rajasthan Royals

It’s unlikely that Rajasthan will make any changes to their team but we believe that one change is possible and that’s a swap between Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes since Stokesy is a proven finisher and Buttler has done well for them at the top of the order. If there’s any inclination towards making this switch, I’ll want both of these in my RR vs MI fantasy team, or else I’ll be dropping both for today.

With the ball, Jofra Archer has been the only consistent player with 15 wickets (1/3rd of all wickets RR has picked this season) in IPL 2020 so far, so it’ll be a sin to leave him out of your fantasy side. Youngster Kartik Tyagi was hit for 0/42 in the last game but he has kept his head in stressful situations so far in IPL 2020 and had picked one wicket in each of his 6 games prior to that last game, so we’re picking him as well.

Mumbai Indians

Rohit Sharma may continue to sit out which means Ishan Kishan will get an extended run at the top. He scored brilliantly in the last game but my main pick will have to be his opening partner Quinton de Kock who hit 320 runs in his last 6 games with a batting average of 60+. DNB, 0, 10 are Suryakumar Yadav’s last three scores in IPL 2020 so he’l be raring to go out there and make another worthy contribution for his side.

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With 17 and 16 wickets respectively so far this season, both of Jasprit Bumrah and Trent Boult are not worth skipping from your Nostragamus (Get Rs.200 FREE) fantasy team because Dream11 awards massive points per wicket. Another person who looked super confident in the last game was leg-spinner Rahul Chahar and he’s someone who could make a massive difference as well, with 13 scalps in 10 games so far.

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Rajasthan Royals Squad

Steven Smith (C), Sanju Samson, Robin Uthappa, Rahul Tewatia, Riyan Parag, Jofra Archer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Gopal, Jos Buttler, Andrew Tye, Tom Curran, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi, Ankit Rajpoot, Akash Singh, Mahipal Lomror, Aniruddha Joshi, Shashank Singh, Manan Vohra, Oshane Thomas, Mayank Markande, David Miller, Varun Aaron, Anuj Rawat.

Mumbai Indians Squad

Rohit Sharma (C), Quinton de Kock, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, James Pattinson, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Chris Lynn, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Anukul Roy, Dhawal Kulkarni, Saurabh Tiwary, Prince Balwant Rai, Digvijay Deshmukh, Aditya Tare, Mohsin Khan, Jayant Yadav, Anmolpreet Singh, Mitchell McClenaghan, Sherfane Rutherford.