Rajasthan Royals have invited the 'Class of '08' for felicitation in the IPL 2022 final on Sunday.
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Rajasthan Royals have invited the ‘Class of 08’ which was led by the late Shane Warne to the IPL 2022 final against Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad on Sunday for a felicitation ceremony. Rajasthan Royals won their maiden and only IPL title in the inaugural edition in 2008 and it took them 14 years to reach the first final after that in the ongoing season of the lucrative tournament.
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According to a report in the Times of India, former Rajasthan Royals players Munaf Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Swapnil Asnodkar, Dinesh Salunkhe and Siddharth Trivedi are among those who are expected to be present during the felicitation ceremony. However, the foreign players from the 2008 contingent like Shane Watson, Sohail Tanvir, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Kamran Akmal and Darren Lehmann will not be able to attend the ceremony.
“I have been invited and I will be going there tomorrow,” Asnodkar told TOI. The head of Rajasthan Royals’ Jaipur-based high performance centre, Romi Bhander, spoke about the franchise philosophy. He said that Rajasthan Royals’ are a family and they live by the principle of ‘once a Royal, always a Royal’. Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith will also be available for the felicitation.
Gujarat Titans will crosswords with Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League 2022 final at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad on Sunday. The debutant franchise Gujarat Titans led by a first-time captain, became the first team to qualify for the IPL 2022 playoffs, before becoming the first side to qualify for the final on Tuesday. Banking on their fine performance in the league stage and topping the table, Gujarat Titans qualified for the Qualifier 1 in the IPL 2022 playoffs, where they defeated Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata to book the final berth.
Rajasthan Royals will have a chance to avenge their defeat after losing to Gujarat Titans in the Qualifier 1. The Sanju Samson-led side clinched a thumping win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Qualifier 2 to seal the final berth. In the match, Virat Kohli looked out of touch once again with the bat for RCB as he was sent packing for seven runs. However, captain Faf du Plessis (25), Rajat Patidar (58) and Glenn Maxwell (24), played resilient knocks with RR fast bowlers Prasidh Krishna and Obed McCoy picking up three wickets each to restrict RCB to a chasable total of 157/8. In response, the in-form RR opener Jos Buttler remained unbeaten on 103 off 60 deliveries to guide his side over the line with 11 balls to spare.
