IPL 2025: Is Jake Fraser-McGurk playing in DC vs RR Match 32?

Will Jake Fraser-McGurk play in today’s match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium between the Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals? Since neither side has changed going into this conflict, the answer is yes.

In the previous match between DC and the Mumbai Indians, the 23-year-old was removed on a golden duck. He has only managed to score in double figures in one of his five innings played thus far, aside from that setback. It is believed that the management supported the aggressive Australian top-order batter because of his enormous potential.

Toss Update

Sanju Samson won the toss and revealed that RR would opt to bowl first. He anticipated the track to get better for batting as the game progresses. Axar Patel disclosed that even he would have opted to bowl first. However, he shared that the team would be aiming to put on a big score.

What did the captains say?

Sanju Samson, RR captain

We’ll bowl first, looks like a good wicket. Gets better in the second half. The results and match conditions have been different. Generally the chasing team wins more often in the IPL. However, we are still early in the tournament so we want to bowl first and get an advantage. It is a competitive league, so we need to look past results sometimes. We decided as a team we need to put in a good performance whatever happens. Same team.

Axar Patel, DC captain

Would have bowled as well. There will be dew perhaps in the second innings, but now we are ready to bat first and put up a big score. Last game also, we did well chasing, just a matter of a couple of overs here and there going in our favour. Need to look past the last game, but it is a learning experience. We discussed in the team meetings how we could have finished the game, we perhaps got too casual in the middle phase. Same team for us as well.

Playing 11s

Delhi Capitals: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abishek Porel, Karun Nair, KL Rahul (wk), Axar Patel (c), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma

Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson (wk/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Nitish Rana, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana, Sandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande