Struggling RR to face rampaging MI

Jaipur, Apr 19 (UNI) Going through a disastrous IPL season, struggling Rajasthan Royals will look for a desperate win against the rampaging Mumbai Indians in the next match to bring their campaign back on track in the ongoing IPL season at Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Saturday.
The hosts RR have won only two matches of their eight matches in the tournament and are languishing at the second last position in the points table.
On the other hand, MI have won their last match convincingly against DC and are high on confidence. The three-times champions have won six matches out of the nine and they sit pretty at the second position in the points table.
This is the second encounter between these two teams in this season, with RR winning the first one by 4 wickets.
After losing their last match against KXIP, RR are now in a position from where they have to win almost all their remaining games to keep their play-off chances alive.

In batting, England's Jos Buttler has scored the maximum runs for Rajasthan. He played a brilliant innings of 89 runs off 43 balls against MI when they faced each other last.
Apart from Buttler, other batsmen have either struggled or not been consistent. Even, RR captain Anjikya Rahane is going through a bad IPL season with his bat. Sanju Samson, who had hit the first ton of this IPL, too has failed to deliver in past couple of innings.
In their last game, Rahane made some changes, bringing in Stuart Binny and Ashton Turner. While, Binny hit some lusty blows, the Australian was dismissed for a naught.
For MI, both Rohit and his opening partner Quinton de Kock have been in fine form. Quinton de Kock is the highest run-getter for the Mumbai Indians with 323 runs and he will like to carry on his good form.
Apart from these two, Kieron Pollard has also proved that he still has match-winning abilities, but he has not got much opportunities to bat in last few matches.
Meanwhile, Hardik Pandya is having a great IPL in both batting and bowling departments.
In bowling department, the pace-spin duo of Jofra Archer and Shreyas Gopal have been the spearhead for RR but rest of the bowlers have not been so effective and have also conceded too many runs in death overs.
On the other hand, MI have quality bowlers in Jasprit Bumrah, Lasith Malinga and spinner Krunal Pandya. Young leg-spinner Rahul Chahar also claimed three wicket against Delhi
and showed his talent with the ball.
Experience of veteran Sri Lankan Lasith Malinga has also helped MI in death overs.
In head to head contest, MI and RR have played 22 times so far in the history of the IPL tournament. MI emerged victorious 11 times, while RR won on 10 occasions and one mtach was abandoned due to rain in 2009.