Rajasthan Royals will take on Chennai Super Kings in their first match of IPL 13 at Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah tonight. 

Rajasthan Royals will look to kick off their campaign with a win and they have been preparing for this for a month. Captain Steve Smith will be eager to lead his boys from the front and the team will miss the services of Jos Buttler who is doing quarantine time and Ben Stokes who is out due to personal reasons. Though he will have Sanju Samson, David Miller, Robin Uthappa, and youngsters Manan Vohra, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Riyan Parag for the support.

In the bowling, Jofra Archer and Shreyas Gopal will have to play a key role along with Tom Curran, Jaydev Unadkat, and Varun Aaron.

On the other hand, Chennai Super Kings who made a winning start of their campaign will look to register their second win of the tournament. In the first except their openers, all other players did well and the team will hope that openers Watson and Vijay will give a good start in this match and the rest of the players too will continue their good form. 

All the major stats and facts ahead of the fourth match between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings in Sharjah : 

Head to Head in IPL - 

T20 Matches - 21

Rajasthan Royals won - 7

Chennai Super Kings won - 14

43 - Shane Watson needs 43 more runs to complete 1000 IPL runs for Chennai Super Kings. 

89 - Faf du Plessis needs 89 more runs to achieve the milestone of 2000 runs in the Indian Premier League. 

300 - MS Dhoni needs to hit 5 more sixes to complete 300 sixes in T20 cricket. 

420 - MS Dhoni has scored 420 runs at an average of 42.0 in 19 innings with 2 fifties against Rajasthan Royals in IPL. 

1000 - Ambati Rayudu needs 45 more runs to complete 1000 runs for Chennai Super Kings in IPL. 

2000 - Ravindra Jadeja needs 63 more runs to complete 2000 runs in the Indian Premier League. He will become the first player to complete the double of 2000 runs and 100 wickets in IPL.