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2014 Rajasthan Royals season

Indian Premier League cricket team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ24906997 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rajasthan Royals (RR) is a franchise cricket team based in Jaipur, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They were one of the eight teams that competed in the 2014 Indian Premier League. They were captained by Shane Watson. Rajasthan Royals finished 5th in the IPL and did not qualify for the Champions League T20.

Squad

Players with international caps prior to the start of the 2014 season are listed in bold.

IPL

Standings

Rajasthan Royals finished 5th in the league stage of IPL 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “2014 Rajasthan Royals season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.