Before IPL 2026, a big news is coming regarding Rajasthan Royals. The franchise is considering changing its home ground. In the upcoming IPL edition, Rajasthan’s home games will not only be played in Jaipur but outside the state itself. It may shift to Pune, about 1200 kilometers away from Jaipur.

According to the report of Cricbuzz, there are indications that Rajasthan Royals may shift their home matches to Pune. However, nothing is final yet. The final decision regarding changing the venue will be taken by BCCI, but Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) will first have to confirm that it is ready to host the franchise’s home game.

Rajasthan Royals want to make MCA Stadium as home ground

According to the report, Rajasthan Royals management has started exploring options for a new base. He wants to make Pune’s MCA Stadium his home ground. Initial talks have already taken place between Rajasthan Royals and MCA officials.

Cricbuzz reported in its report that an operations team of the franchise had recently gone to Pune to look at the stadium, hotel options, airport connectivity and other logistics.

Dispute between RR and RCA?

According to the report, the reason for the shift of Rajasthan Royals is clearly due to some problems with the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA). In the last edition, an association official had accused the team of match-fixing. The franchise had denied the allegations and demanded strict action against the person.

If Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium becomes the home ground of Rajasthan Royals, then the team will play 4 matches here in the upcoming season and the other 3 matches are likely to be held in Guwahati. Let us tell you that an IPL team plays 7 matches on its home ground.

An MCA official told Cricbuzz, “Yes, they came here to know the details about the stadium capacity, pitches and hotels in the city. Our President, Mr. Rohit Pawar, is very keen that the IPL comes back to the city. He is doing everything possible.”

Let us tell you that the last time an IPL match was played in MCA was in 2022, this season the entire tournament was held in Maharashtra.

RCB had also approached

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) management is also looking for a venue, as the Karnataka government has refused to give permission to the franchise in M ​​Chinnaswamy. Let us tell you that last season many fans were killed in a stampede outside this stadium while celebrating the victory.

According to the report, MCA is also looking at its options. Explaining the situation with the defending champions, MCA told Cricbuzz, “RCB’s interest is genuine, but there is no guarantee that they will play at another venue. Any such move will depend on many factors.”

Sanju samson post match presentation: Chasing a target of 189 by Delhi Capitals, Sanju Samson (31) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (51) shared 76 runs in 49 balls for the first wicket. After this, there was a 36 -run partnership between Jaiswal and Nitish Rana. Nitish Rana also played a good innings of 51 runs, but in the end the Delhi bowlers made a brilliant comeback and managed to get the score equal. After this, Delhi Capitals defeated Rajasthan Royals in the super over.

Sanju Semson said after losing in super over

We will inspect this defeat tomorrow and see how it is. I think we really bowled well. There were some stages where he dominated us. But I would like to give credit to all my bowlers and fielders. I felt that the score could definitely be achieved, but as we all saw it was Stark’s great over. I would like to give credit to Mitchell Starc, I think he won the game for him in the 20th over. The super over plan was to work hard. You know that he is going to work hard on you, so we had to work hard on him. ”

Sandeep Sharma had overplayed the powerplay for Rajasthan Royals, Sanju Samson said, “I think he has been bowling the most difficult over for me for the last few years. I am very lucky that someone is like him. The way Jofra supported him and everyone played around him, but finally Stark took the match from us.”

Sanju Samson did not come to bat in powerplay

Talking about the powerplay over, Shimron Hetmyer and Ryan Parag landed for Rajasthan Royals, Ryan Parag was run out on the fourth ball. After this, Yashasvi Jaiswal came to bat but the final ball was played by Hetmeer. Rajasthan scored 11 runs in the powerplay. Sanju Samson did not come to bat, after the match, he said that, “I was not ready to come back here and bat in the powerplay.”

Gt vs rr pitch report: The 23rd match of IPL 2025 is between Gujarat Titans captained by Shubman Gill and Rajasthan Royals captained by Sanju Samson. The match will be played at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium today (April 9). Gujarat is second in the points table and Rajasthan is at number 7.

Gujarat Titans, captained by Shubman Gill, have won 3 in 4 matches while only 1 match has been lost. Rajasthan Royals have won 2 in 4 matches and have lost 2. Gujarat, captained by Gill, is seen strong on its home ground. On this ground, 2 matches have been played in IPL 2025 so far, out of which Gujarat has won the match and one has lost.

Narendra Modi Stadium IPL Records: IPL records in Ahmedabad
A total of 37 matches of IPL have been played at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium so far. The team that batting and bowling 20 times has won 17 times first. The toss winning team has won 17 and the losing team has won 20 times. The largest total here is 243, which was made by Punjab Kings against Gujarat. The biggest personal score is the name of Shubman Gill here, who scored 129 runs against Mumbai in 2013.

In IPL 2025, 2 matches have been played at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium. The team batting first has won both times. In the first match, Punjab Kings won 11 and Gujarat Titans won by 36 runs in the second match.

GT vs RR Pitch Report: Pitch Report of Narendra Modi Stadium

Bounce will be seen in Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium, it will be a batting pitch where it is not a big deal to score 200. The captain who won the toss in today’s match should decide to bat first, it is very difficult to win by chasing the target. The team batting first should score around 210 runs.