IPL 2026: Rajasthan Royals won the title of champion in IPL 2008. Since then, 17 more seasons of IPL have been played but Rajasthan Royals have not got a chance to win the trophy. During this period, Rajasthan changed its players several times and many captains have captained the team from time to time. RR had captured the IPL trophy under the captaincy of late Australian cricketer Shane Warne. After this, Rahul Dravid, Ajinkya Rahane and Sanju Samson led the team but could not make their team champion.

Rajasthan Royals (Rajasthan Royals) From time to time, there have also been match-winning players like Pravin Tambe, Jos Buttler, Steve Smith, Yuzvendra Chahal, Yusuf Pathan and Ravichandran Ashwin. But despite this, it never won the IPL title after 2008. But the team had definitely made it to the finals of IPL 2022 and 2025. Now before IPL 2026, we will tell you about the strengths and weaknesses of Rajasthan Royals as well as the players on whom the team will depend this season.

strength of rajasthan royals

The strength of Rajasthan Royals is their two experienced all-rounders. Ravindra Jadeja of India and Sam Curran of England will strengthen the team. Both of them will be seen handling the responsibility of the team with both ball and bat. The strength of Rajasthan Royals is the team’s batting order, which is made up of young players from India. Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi can be the strength of the team. The responsibility of giving a great start to the team will be on these two young batsmen. After this, Shimron Hetmyer and Dhruv Jurel can prove to be a strength for the team in the lower order.

Weaknesses of Rajasthan Royals

The biggest weakness of Rajasthan Royals is their bowling. The team has Joffre Archer, whose speed becomes their enemy. He gets beaten a lot in T20 cricket. Experienced Sandeep Sharma is included in the team’s pace attack but he bowls economically but lags behind in taking wickets. Along with this, RR’s spin track also looks very weak. The team has only one main spinner in the form of Ravi Bishnoi. If he does not perform then the team’s weaknesses will be exposed.

Along with this, the weaknesses of the team also include inexperienced batting. Rajasthan captain Riyan Parag can also prove to be a weakness of the team. He does not have much experience of captaincy. He captained in 8 matches last season and could win only 2 matches. Now he can prove to be the weak link of the team this season too.

Which players will we keep an eye on?

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Ravindra Jadeja can prove to be important for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026. Jaiswal has scored 2166 runs with the help of 2 centuries and 15 half-centuries in 66 innings of 67 matches for Rajasthan in IPL since 2020. Vaibhav has scored 252 runs for the team in 7 innings of 7 matches with 1 century and 1 half-century. In his IPL career since 2008, Jadeja has scored 3260 runs with 5 half-centuries in 254 matches. Apart from this, he also has 170 wickets in his name.

Rajasthan Royals squad for IPL 2026

batsman

• Vaibhav Suryavanshi


• Yashasvi Jaiswal


• Aman Rao Perala


• Shimron Hetmyer


• Shubham Dubey


• Dhruv Jurel


• Donovan Ferreira


• luan-dre pretorius


• Ravi Singh

allrounder

• Ravindra Jadeja


• Riyan Parag


• Sam Curran

bowler

• adam milne


• Brijesh Sharma


• jofra archer


• Kuldeep Sen


• quena mafaka


• Nandre Burger


• Ravi Bishnoi


• Sandeep Sharma


• Sushant Mishra


• Tushar Deshpande


• Vignesh Puthur


• Yash Raj Punja


• Yudhveer Singh Charak

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