Rajasthan out to keep slim qualification hopes alive

Everyone trips at some point in sport. Even the champions aren't resistant to the law of winning and losing. Rajasthan Royals, for all their overseas star-power, could barely buy a win as they slipped into the losing habit, suffering six reverses from their first eight games.

They desperately yearned for a spark that could lift them from the depths of despair, and that spark came in the form of Steven Smith replacing Ajinkya Rahane as