IPL 2026, RR vs CSK Match Date, Time, Live Cricket Streaming, Playing 11 Prediction: It is the Sanju Samson derby to start the season for Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings. The Kerala wicketkeeper-batter, who was the face of the Royals for so long, is making his debut for CSK, by facing RR themselves at their home. He will be keeping wickets for CSK, with former captain and talisman MS Dhoni out injured and ruled out for the first two weeks of this season.
Meanwhile, themselves will find a stalwart of theirs in the opposition camp. Ravindra Jadeja’s six and four off the last two balls of the 2023 final, off which CSK had needed exactly 10 to win, has a permanent place in the franchise’s folklore but his skills will be turned against them now that he has been traded to in exchange of Samson. It is also a bit of a homecoming for Jadeja, he was among the many young, unheralded players in the RR squad led by Shane Warne that won the inaugural title in 2008.
RR predicted XI: Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock (wk), , Tilak Varma, (capt), Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Shardul Thakur, , Ashwani Kumar,
CSK predicted XI: Tim Seifert, Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane (capt), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Cameron Green, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Umran Malik, Varun Chakravarthy
RR vs CSK Head-To-Head
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur – Pitch Report
A total of 64 IPL matches have been played at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, one of the original set of grounds where the tournament was played since its first season. The venue has historically favoured chasing teams with sides batting second winning 41 of the 64 IPL matches played here, which translates to a above 60 per cent success rate. The data suggests that the pitch often becomes more favourable for batting under lights, making run-chases more manageable. Overall, the Sawai Mansingh Stadium pitch has been known to be a fairly balanced playing surface which can favour both batters and bowlers depending on external conditions. The highest team total recorded here is 219 (by in IPL 2025) while the lowest is 59 (by RR in IPL 2023).
Squad: Riyan Parag(C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Ravindra Jadeja, Dasun Shanaka, , Dhruv Jurel, Jofra Archer, Donovan Ferreira, Lhuan-de Pretorius, Ravi Singh, Aman Rao Parela, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Tushar Deshpande, Kwena Maphaka, , Sushant Mishra, Yash Raj Punja, Vignesh Puthur, Brijesh Sharma, Adam Milne, Kuldeep Sen, , Nandre Burger.
Squad: MS Dhoni, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sanju Samson, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brewis, , Urvil Patel, Noor Ahmad, Spencer Johnson, Shreyas Gopal, , Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Jamie Overton, Gurjapneet Singh, Anshul Kamboj, Akeal Hosein, Prashant Veer, Kartik Sharma, Matthew Short, Aman Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Matt Henry, Rahul Chahar, Zak Foulkes
Where to watch RR vs CSK IPL 2026 match live?
The live streaming of the RR vs CSK IPL 2026 will be available on JioHotstar in India, whereas the Live telecast will be available on Star Sports Network TV channels in India.
