The 2021 season was the 12th season for the

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Rajasthan Royals Rajasthan Royals (often abbreviated as RR) are a franchise cricket team based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Founded in 2008 as one of the initial eight IPL franchises, the team is based at the Sawai Ma ...

. After winning only 5 matches out of 14 matches, they finished seventh in the tournament.

Background

Player retention and transfers

The Rajasthan Royals retained 17 players and released eight players. ;Retained: Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes,

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, Mahipal Lomror, Manan Vohra,

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, Rahul Tewatia, Riyan Parag, Shreyas Gopal,

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(traded to

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, Anuj Rawat, Kartik Tyagi, David Miller, Andrew Tye ;Released:

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, Akash Singh, Aniruddha Joshi,

Ankit Rajpoot Ankit Singh Rajpoot (born 4 December 1993 in Lodhi Rajput Family) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler who made his debut during the 2012-13 Ranji Trophy. He picked 31 wick ...

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, Shashank Singh, Tom Curran,

Varun Aaron Varun Raymond Aaron (born 29 October 1989) is an Indian cricketer from Jamshedpur. A right-arm fast bowler, he first played for Jharkhand U-19 followed by Jharkhand Ranji team. He played his first One Day International (ODI) for India in Octo ...

;Added: Shivam Dube, Chris Morris,

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, Chetan Sakariya, Kuldip Yadav, Akash Singh, K. C. Carriapa

Squad

* Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Administration and support staff

Kit manufacturers and sponsors

Teams and standings

Results by match

League table 2021

League stage

The full schedule was published on the IPL website on 7 March 2021.

Matches

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Statistics

Most runs

* Source: Cricinfo

Most Wickets

* Source: Cricinfo

Player of the match awards

References

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