Like the Super Kings and Royals position or die in the points table, the losing team will find it difficult to reach the play-offs.

The 37th match of the 13th season of IPL will be played between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Abu Dhabi from 7:30 pm today. Looking at the points table, both teams are in the same position, winning 3-3 out of 9 matches. This match is a do or die match for both teams. It will be extremely difficult for the losing team to reach the play-offs.

Both teams are face to face for the second time in the season. In the previous match, Rajasthan Royals defeated CSK by 16 runs in Sharjah. The Royals had scored 216 runs in the fourth match of the season. In response, Chennai could score only 200 runs.

Du Plessis and Watson Chennai top scorers

The most runs scored for Chennai were by Faf du Plessis and Shane Watson. Du Plessis has scored 365 and Watson 277 so far. After them, Ambati Rayudu is at number three with 237 runs.

Samson and Teotia top scorer for Rajasthan

Sanju Samson has scored the highest 236 runs for Rajasthan so far. After this comes Rahul Teotia's number. Tewatia has scored 222 runs so far in the season. Apart from these, Steve Smith is in third place with 220 runs.

Karan and Shardul Chennai's most successful bowlers

Sam Karan and Shardul Thakur have been the most successful bowlers in the season for Chennai. Karan has taken a maximum of 10 wickets. At the same time, Shardul has dismissed 9 batsmen so far. Apart from these, Deepak Chahar has taken 8 wickets in the season.

Rahul Teotia is Rajasthan's most successful bowler

Rahul Tewatia, who won Rajasthan Royals many matches on his own, has taken the highest 6 wickets in a season for his team. This is followed by Karthik Tyagi, who has taken 5 wickets so far in the season.

Pitch and Weather Report

The sky will be clear during the match in Abu Dhabi. Temperatures are likely to be between 24 and 33 degrees Celsius. The pitch can help the batsmen. Being a slow wicket here will also help the spinners a lot. The team that wins the toss will like to bowl first. Before this IPL, the success rate of the first bowling team victory in the last 44 T20s was 56.81%.

Total T20: 44 on this ground

First Batting Team Won: 19

First bowling team won: 25

Average team score in first innings: 137

Team's average score in the second innings: 128

Expensive players from both teams

Captain MS Dhoni is the most expensive player in CSK. The team will give him Rs 15 crore a season. He is followed by Kedar Jadhav, who will get Rs 7.80 crore this season. At the same time, Captain Steve Smith and Ben Stokes are the most expensive players in Rajasthan with a price of Rs 12.50 crores.

Chennai won the title 3 times, Rajasthan became the champion once

Chennai, captained by Dhoni, won the title twice in 2010 and 2011 in a row. The last time this team became champions in 2018. Chennai has also been the runner-up of the IPL five times (2008, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2019). At the same time, Rajasthan reached the finals once (2008) and won the title.

CSK's 59.82% success rate in IPL

Rajasthan Royals, which won the first IPL title (2008), played 156 matches in the league so far, winning 78 and losing 76. 2 matches were inconclusive. At the same time, CSK has so far won 103 matches out of 174 and lost 70. A match has been inconclusive. The Royals had a winning success rate of 50.32% and CSK the highest at 59.82%.