IPL 2025 Rajasthan Royals (RR) Full Squad List with New Changes

Sanju Samson, the designated leader in our official squad and players list for Rajasthan Royals (RR) for IPL 2025.  

The IPL 2008 champions, Rajasthan Royals were one of the only two teams to have retained all six players for IPL 2025. The team trusted in the leadership of Sanju Samson, and will once again see the team thriving for their second IPL Trophy. It has been almost 18 years since Rajasthan Royals had their hands on the trophy, and they have built a solid squad for IPL 2025, barring a few minor gaps.

Having retained 6 players, Rajasthan Royals didn’t do much shopping in tbe IPL 2025 Mega Auction. The team focused on adding 2-3 more quality players, and then rest opted to add backups. Overall, RR have only 20 players in their squad for IPL 2025; the joint-least among all teams. In terms of team bifurcation, RR have 4 batters, 3 wicket-keepers, 3 all-rounders, and 10 bowlers.

The strategy of Rajasthan Royals seems pretty evident this time around too. The team is utilizing the availability of impact player rule to the fullest, hence the team has less focus on multi-utility players, and instead are focusing on adding specialists. The team currently doesn’t have a specialist all-rounders, and instead have part-time all-rounders in their squad. So with the data in front of us let’s look at the complete squad list for Rajasthan Royals (RR) for IPL 2025. 

IPL 2025 Rajasthan Royals (RR) Official Squad List Analyzed

Existing Players RR Added

Talking about the existing players that RR added to their squad for IPL 2025, we firstly have the retained players in the form of Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, and uncapped Sandeep Sharma. Aside from these six players, Rajasthan Royals added only two more uncapped players, Shubham Dubey and Kunal Rathore. With such a strategy, RR were pretty clear on not adding any of their existing star players like Buttler, Avesh, Praisdh, Boult, Powell, etc. 

New Players that RR Added

With existing players being only 8 of them, RR invested heavily in new players, and added as many as 12 names to their squad. Among star players, RR added the likes of Nitish Rana, Wanindu Hasaranga, Akash Madhwal, Jofra Archer, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Maheesh Theekshana, and Tushar Deshpande. Whereas among emerging talent, RR added Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Ashok Sharma, Kwena Maphaka, Kumar Kartikeya, and Yudhvir Charak. 

Overall, RR’s squad looks decent, and it is their first-choice playing 11 that will be interesting to watch. The team has major gaps in terms of all-rounders, and lower-order batters, but that can partially be covered with the help of Impact player rule. The team’s strength is their batting core, and they do have 6 solid batters to focus on. Here’s the complete breakdown of players for RR for Indian Premier League 2025. 

IPL 2025 Official Squad and Players List for Rajasthan Royals (RR)

Batters

1. Shimron Hetmyer (o)
2. Shubham Dubey
3. Vaibhav Suryavanshi
4. Yashasvi Jaiswal

Wicket-keepers

1. Dhruv Jurel
2. Kunal Rathore
3. Sanju Samson (c)

All-rounders

1. Nitish Rana
2. Riyan Parag
3. Wanindu Hasaranga (o)

Bowlers

1. Akash Madhwal
2. Ashok Sharma
3. Fazalhaq Farooqi (o)
4. Jofra Archer (o)
5. Kewna Maphaka (o)
6. Kumar Kartikeya
7. Maheesh Theekshana (o)
8. Sandeep Sharma
9. Tushar Deshpande
10. Yudhvir Charak

So, that’s about the complete official squad and players list for Rajasthan Royals (RR) for IPL 2025. Overall, if we talk about the best playing 11 for RR for IPL 2025, we are looking at Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson as openers. Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag, and Shimron Hetmyer should be the middle-order. Dhruv Jurel and Shubham Dubey should play the role of finishers. Whereas bowling should rely on five proper bowlers, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Akash Madhwal, Tushar Deshpande, and Sandeep Sharma.  

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