RR vs RCB IPL 2025 Match Preview: As the Rajasthan Royals (RR) host the Royal Challengers Bangaluru (RCB) in their home ground in Jaipur, the teams look forward to a fiery match today. As rank seven clashes with rank five on the IPL 2025 points table, the teams will kick off the Match 28 of IPL 2025 at 3 PM today, March 13.
Both teams have lost their previous match with a similar victory tally. Rajasthan Royals (RR) faced Gujarat Titans (GT) and were defeated by a whopping 58 run record bringing their loss tally up by one. Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) had a promising start at the beginning of the IPL 2025 season but has lost two of the five matches played so far. RR vs RCB today is expected to be a rather closely fought match.
RR vs RCB Pitch report
Playing at the iconic Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, both teams can expect a balanced match today. The pitch is balanced for both pacers and spinners and the toss-winning team is expected to chose the chasing side. Favouring more towards the batters, it is a 55% batting pitch and average target estimated in the RR vs RCB match is 171.
RR vs RCB Jaipur weather report
As per IMD alerts, Rajasthan is facing extreme heatwave conditions. However Accu Weather updates report a hazy sunshine throughout the day with no chance of rains. The maximum temperature is set to go to highest 37°C and lowest at about 25°C at night. In the clear sunny skies, this seems like a perfect match-weather for RR vs RCB.
RR vs RCB predicted playing XI
The teams feature some exceptional performers in the IPL 2025 leaderboard. Debuting captain, Rajat Patidar of the Royal Challengers Bangaluru has scores 186 runs in 5 matches while Rajasthan Royals’ (RR) wicket-keeper, Sanju Samson is just ten runs behind.
Rajasthan Royals Predicted Playing XI: SV Samson (C), DC Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, R Parag, N Rana, W Hasaranga, Sandeep Sharma, TU Deshpande, M Theekshana, Jofra Archer
Royal Challengers Bangaluru Predicted Playing XI: PD Salt (wk), JM Sharma, RM Patidar (C), Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Tim David, LS Livingstone, KH Pandya, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, B Kumar
The impact players from the teams are likely to be among S Chikara, Swapnil Singh, L Ngidi or Rashik Salam from RCB. RR impact players are predicted to be Yashasvi Jaiswal or R Parag this match.
As the RR vs RCB match kicks off with a toss at 3 PM at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, the first ball will be bowled at 3:30 PM IST. Fans can watch the RR vs RCB streaming live on JioHotstar and Star Sports Network.