List of Rajasthan Royals cricketers

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Rajasthan Royals (RR) is a franchise cricket team based in Jaipur, India, and is one of the teams participating in the Indian Premier League (IPL). It played its first Twenty20 match in the first season of the IPL against the Delhi Daredevils. It later topped the group stage in that season, and won the final against the Chennai Super Kings to become the first winner of the IPL. It also reached the playoffs in the 2013 IPL. The team’s performance in the 2008 and the 2013 season resulted in its qualification for the 2008 and the 2013 Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20), however the 2008 edition was cancelled due to the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The RR reached the finals in the 2013 CLT20, but lost the match to Mumbai Indians. Seventy-three players have played for RR, of whom Shane Watson has played the most matches.

Nine players standing on a green carpet wearing a blue top and blue or black jeans. Along with them are two other men who are wearing black coats and pants.

RR players during a party at Shilpa Shetty’s house

Shane Watson is the only player to lead most runs, most wickets, highest score, highest batting average, most sixes, most matches for a team. Also the only player to win man of the tournament IPL twice. The best bowling average is Lee Carseldine’s 6.00, though among bowlers who have bowled more than 20 overs, Sohail Tanvir has the best average: 11.44. Tanvir also has the best bowling figures in an innings: he claimed six wickets against Chennai Super Kings in a 2008 match, while conceding 14 runs. Mahesh Rawat has taken the most catches as wicket-keeper for RR, with 15, while Naman Ojha has made the highest number of stumpings: 7; Dishant Yagnik has made the most dismissals as wicket-keeper for RR with 18. Rahane has claimed the highest number of catches among fielders, with 28.

The first list includes all players who have played at least one match for RR and is initially listed alphabetically by their last name. The second list comprises all those players who have captained the team in at least one match, arranged in the order of the first match as captain. Many players have also represented other teams of the IPL, but only the records of their games for RR are given.

Key

style=”vertical-align:top; width:26%;”thumb General

  • § – Member of the current squad[20]
  • dagger – Captain[21]
  • double-dagger – Wicket-keeper[18]
  • First – Year of Twenty20 debut for RR
  • Last – Year of latest Twenty20 match for RR
  • Mat – Number of matches played

Fielding

  • Ca – Catches taken
  • St – Stumpings effected
 Batting

  • Inn – Number of innings batted
  • NO – Number of innings not out
  • Runs – Runs scored in career
  • HS – Highest score
  • 100 – Centuries scored
  • 50 – Half-centuries scored[δ]
  • Avg – Runs scored per dismissal
  • * – Batsman remained not out
 Bowling

  • Balls – Balls bowled in career[ε]
  • Wkt – Wickets taken in career
  • BBI – Best bowling in an innings[ζ]
  • Ave – Average runs per wicket
 Captains

  • Won – Number of games won
  • Lost – Number of games lost
  • NR – Number of games with no result
  • Win% – Percentage of games won to those captained[η]

Players

  • A white coloured man in his bowling action. He is wearing a blue outfit and is alongside cricket stumps. A field and boundary ropes can be seen in the background.

    Shane Warne has 16 wickets for RR at a bowling average of 25.38 in inaugural edition of IPL.

  • A male, dark-skinned cricketer in a white short-sleeved shirt and dark blue baseball cap with sunglasses on the peak of the cap. He is standing high up in a cricket stand with a large number of spectators in the background.

    Rahul Dravid has made seven half-centuries for RR, with a high score of 66.

RR cricketers
General Batting Bowling Fielding
Name[8] Nationality[θ] First Last Mat Inn NO Runs HS 100 50[δ] Avg Balls[ε] Wkt BBI[ζ] Ave Ca St
Kamran Akmal double-dagger  Pakistan 2008 2008 6 6 1 128 53* 0 1 25.60 0 – – – 5 4
Swapnil Asnodkar  India 2008 2011 21 21 0 464 60 0 2 22.09 0 – – – 6 0
Mohammad Kaif  India 2008 2009 17 15 3 217 41 0 0 18.08 0 0 – – 8 0
Younis Khan  Pakistan 2008 2008 1 1 0 3 3 0 0 3.00 0 – – – 1 0
Taruwar Kohli  India 2008 2008 2 2 0 10 7 0 0 5.00 0 – – – 1 0
Darren Lehmann  Australia 2008 2008 2 2 0 18 17 0 0 9.00 0 – – – 0 0
Dimitri Mascarenhas  England 2008 2010 9 8 2 92 32* 0 0 15.33 212 14 3/20 17.85 2 0
Munaf Patel  India 2008 2012 31 9 5 37 23* 0 0 9.25 635 33 3/17 24.24 7 0
Niraj Patel  India 2008 2009 9 5 2 121 57 0 1 30.25 0 – – – 6 0
Yusuf Pathan  India 2008 2010 43 42 4 1,011 100 1 6 26.60 583 20 3/22 35.95 14 0
Mahesh Rawat double-dagger  India 2008 2009 16 10 6 50 23* 0 0 12.50 0 – – – 15 1
Dinesh Salunkhe  India 2008 2008 6 3 1 33 26* 0 0 16.50 48 1 1/21 78.00 2 0
Pankaj Singh  India 2008 2012 12 2 2 5 4* 0 0 – 210 7 2/18 46.00 1 0
Graeme Smith  South Africa 2008 2010 25 25 3 697 91 0 4 31.68 0 – – – 6 0
Sohail Tanvir  Pakistan 2008 2009 12 6 2 36 13 0 0 12.00 271 25 6/14 11.44 4 0
Siddharth Trivedi  India 2008 2013 76 15 8 42 9 0 0 6.00 1506 65 4/25 29.29 14 0
Shane Warne dagger  Australia 2008 2011 56 29 9 198 34* 0 0 9.90 1218 58 4/21 25.36 16 0
Shane Watson § dagger  Australia 2008 2014 74 72 11 2,127 101 1 13 34.86 1307 61 3/10 26.16 21 0
Johan Botha  South Africa 2009 2012 24 19 8 335 67* 0 1 30.45 534 19 3/6 32.10 9 0
Lee Carseldine  Australia 2009 2009 5 5 1 81 39 0 0 20.25 6 1 1/6 6.00 4 0
Siddharth Chitnis  India 2009 2009 1 1 0 6 6 0 0 6.00 0 – – – 0 0
Faiz Fazal  India 2009 2011 13 12 1 210 45 0 0 19.09 12 0 – – 7 0
Morné Morkel  South Africa 2009 2010 4 3 1 17 8 0 0 8.50 84 0 – – 2 0
Abhishek Raut  India 2009 2011 23 16 7 194 36* 0 0 21.55 48 1 1/22 66.00 9 0
Amit Singh  India 2009 2012 24 5 1 2 1* 0 0 0.50 485 28 4/19 22.32 1 0
Rob Quiney  Australia 2009 2009 7 7 0 103 51 0 1 14.71 0 – – – 12 3
Paul Valthaty  India 2009 2009 2 2 0 6 5 0 0 3.00 0 0 – – 0 0
Shane Harwood  Australia 2009 2009 3 2 2 9 6* 0 0 – 60 3 2/25 24.33 2 0
Tyron Henderson  South Africa 2009 2009 2 2 0 11 11 0 0 5.50 6 1 1/30 40.00 0 0
Ravindra Jadeja  India 2009 2009 27 22 4 430 42 0 0 23.88 153 6 3/15 28.66 11 0
Kamran Khan  India 2009 2010 8 2 1 3 3 0 0 3.00 142 9 3/18 19.66 4 0
Justin Langer  Australia 2009 2009 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1.00 0 – – – 0 0
Naman Ojha double-dagger  India 2009 2010 23 23 3 555 94* 0 4 27.75 0 0 – – 7 7
Aaron Finch  Australia 2010 2010 1 1 0 21 21 0 0 21.00 7 0 – – 0 0
Sumit Narwal  India 2010 2010 5 3 1 14 12 0 0 7.00 94 5 3/36 37.00 1 0
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala  India 2010 2010 13 12 2 183 53* 0 1 20.33 37 0 – – 4 0
Michael Lumb  England 2010 2010 11 11 0 278 83 0 0 25.27 0 – – – 4 0
Damien Martyn  Australia 2010 2010 1 1 0 19 19 0 0 19.00 0 – – – 0 0
Amit Paunikar double-dagger  India 2010 2011 5 5 0 49 20 0 0 9.80 0 – – – 1 0
Amit Uniyal  India 2010 2010 2 2 1 4 4* 0 0 4.00 36 2 2/41 33.00 0 0
Adam Voges  Australia 2010 2010 9 7 3 181 45* 0 0 45.25 54 0 – – 1 0
Paras Dogra  India 2010 2010 9 8 0 107 41 0 0 13.37 0 – – – 2 0
Aditya Dole  India 2010 2010 3 2 0 34 30 0 0 17.00 66 5 2/36 22.40 2 0
Shrikant Wagh  India 2010 2010 1 0 0 – – 0 0 — 6 1 1/16 16.00 0 0
Shaun Tait  Australia 2010 2013 21 5 2 23 11 0 0 7.66 473 23 3/13 27.82 6 0
Ajinkya Rahane §  India 2011 2014 63 59 8 1795 103* 1 15 35.19 0 – – – 28 0
Jacob Oram  New Zealand 2011 2011 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 24 1 1/32 45.00 0 0
Nayan Doshi  India 2011 2011 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 32 1 1/15 62.00 0 0
Rahul Dravid dagger  India 2011 2013 52 51 2 1324 66 0 7 27.02 0 – – – 11 0
Stuart Binny §  India 2011 2019 50 41 13 624 48* 0 0 22.28 324 13 2/14 31.00 12 0
Ankeet Chavan  India 2011 2013 13 3 1 12 7* 0 0 6.00 248 8 2/23 40.75 3 0
Ross Taylor  New Zealand 2011 2011 12 11 6 181 47* 0 0 36.20 6 – – – 4 0
Dishant Yagnik § double-dagger  India 2011 2014 27 19 7 176 34 0 0 14.66 0 – – – 13 6
Ashok Menaria  India 2011 2013 33 24 3 407 40 0 0 19.38 140 3 2/20 57.66 5 0
Pinal Shah  India 2011 2011 2 1 0 5 5 0 0 5.00 0 – – – 0 1
Shreevats Goswami double-dagger  India 2012 2012 11 6 1 69 24 0 0 13.80 0 – – – 4 4
Kevon Cooper §  West Indies 2012 2014 31 17 6 142 32 0 0 12.90 714 39 4/18 24.58 13 0
Ajit Chandilaß  India 2012 2013 12 2 2 4 4* 0 0 – 234 11 4/13 22.20 7 0
Owais Shah double-dagger  England 2012 2013 15 15 4 365 76 0 3 33.18 0 – – – 5 0
Brad Hogg  Australia 2012 2013 10 3 1 15 13 0 0 7.50 236 10 2/31 28.40 1 0
Brad Hodge §  Australia 2012 2014 38 33 14 748 54* 0 2 39.36 18 1 1/13 24.00 16 0
Sachin Baby  India 2013 2013 4 1 0 3 3 0 0 3.00 0 – – – 2 0
Samuel Badree  West Indies 2013 2013 1 0 0 – – 0 0 – 24 – – – 0 0
James Faulkner §  Australia 2013 2015 35 24 13 243 41* 0 0 22.09 781 45 5/16 22.77 7 0
Vikramjeet Malik §  India 2013 2014 7 1 1 1 1* 0 0 – 132 8 3/24 20.00 2 0
Sanju Samson § double-dagger  India 2013 2014 30 29 3 737 74 0 6 28.34 0 – – – 23 3
Pravin Tambe §  India 2013 2014 21 4 2 8 3* 0 0 4.00 474 28 4/15 18.64 3 0
Kusal Perera double-dagger  Sri Lanka 2013 2013 3 3 0 22 14 0 0 7.33 0 – – – 0 0
Rahul Shukla  India 2013 2013 7 3 2 2 1* 0 0 2.00 126 8 3/23 22.25 3 0
Harmeet Singh  India 2013 2013 1 0 0 – – 0 0 – 24 1 1/34 34.00 0 0
S. Sreesanth  India 2013 2013 7 3 2 1 1* 0 0 1.00 130 5 2/20 32.60 0 0
Iqbal Abdulla §  India 2014 2014 1 – – – – – – – 12 0 – – 1 0
Rajat Bhatia §  India 2014 2014 12 7 2 67 23 0 0 13.40 228 12 3/23 23.58 5 0
Unmukt Chand §  India 2014 2014 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 2.00 0 – – – 0 0
Ben Cutting §  Australia 2014 2014 1 1 0 8 8 0 0 8.00 24 1 1/31 31.00 1 0
Dhawal Kulkarni §  India 2014 2014 8 2 2 35 28* 0 0 – 162 6 2/23 36.83 2 0
Karun Nair §  India 2014 2014 11 11 1 330 73* 0 3 33.00 – – – – 4 0
Abhishek Nayar §  India 2014 2014 5 4 1 43 23 0 0 14.33 – – – – 1 0
Kane Richardson §  Australia 2014 2014 7 1 0 1 1 0 0 1.00 162 9 2/18 22.88 3 0
Ankit Sharma §  India 2014 2014 3 2 0 34 30 0 0 17.00 48 4 2/20 10.75 0 0
Steve Smith §  Australia 2014 2014 10 7 3 147 48* 0 0 36.75 – – – – 9 0
Tim Southee §  New Zealand 2014 2014 3 1 0 4 4 0 0 4.00 60 0 – – 2 0
Rahul Tewatia §  India 2014 2014 3 1 0 14 16 0 0 16.00 54 2 1/17 29.50 0 0
Mahipal Lomror  India 2018
Manan Vohra  India 2019
Riyan Parag  India 2019
Yashasvi Jaiswal  India 2020
David Miller  South Africa 2020
Aniruddha Joshi  India 2020
Ben Stokes  England 2018
Rahul Tewatia  India 2020
Sanju Samson  India 2018
Jos Buttler  England 2018
Anuj Rawat  India 2020
Shreyas Gopal  India 2018
Shashank Singh  India 2019
Mayank Markande  India 2020
Jofra Archer  England 2018
Varun Aaron  India 2019
Ankit Rajpoot  India 2020
Jaydev Unadkat  India 2018
Kartik Tyagi  India 2020
Andrew Tye  Australia 2020
Tom Curran  England 2020
Oshane Thomas  West Indies 2020
Akash Singh  India 2020

Captains

A dark coloured man in the left and a white coloured man in the right, both wearing blue shirts.

Warne (right) has captained RR in 56 matches, whereas Dravid (left) is second to him, with 40 matches.

Rajasthan Royals captains
Name[21] First Last Mat Won Lost Tie NR Win%[η]
Shane Warne 2008 2011 56 30 24 1 0 56.25
Shane Watson 2008 2014 16 7 8 1 0 45.28
Rahul Dravid 2012 2013 40 23 17 0 0 57.50
Steve Smith 2014 2020 44 28 16 0 0 63.63
Ajinkya Rahane 2018 2019 23 9 14 0 0 39.13
Sanju Samson 2021 present 28 14 14 0 0 50.00
Total 116 65 49 2 0 57.95