Rajasthan Royals will have to make this change to win against RCB, only then it will be able to perform well
The 32nd match in the 16th season of IPL is to be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals at the MA Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. Currently the Rajasthan Royals team is at the top position in the points table. On the other hand, if Rajasthan Royals have to come on top, then they will have to win this match by performing well. However, maintaining this performance against a strong in-form Royal Challengers Bangalore team could be a tough task.
Significantly, Rajasthan Royals are still on top of the points table with eight points from four wins and two losses. On the other hand, RCB’s team, despite being strong, could not perform consistently and is in fifth place with three wins and as many losses. The Rajasthan team would be churning heavily on their performance against Lucknow Supergiants in the last match. They had a target of 155 runs in front of them and Yashasvi Jaiswal (44) and Jos Buttler (40) got them off to a good start by adding 87 runs for the first wicket but due to middle-order batsmen not being able to run, they lost by 10 runs. Was lying.
Rajasthan have an excellent and strong opening pair in the form of Jaiswal and Butler. Both are contributing in strengthening the team. However, the performance of middle-order batsmen remains a matter of concern for Rajasthan. At the same time, captain Sanju Samson and Shimron Hetmyer are scoring runs but there is a lack of consistency in the performance of both, which is necessary for both to maintain. Devdutt Padikkal and Riyan Parag are not able to live up to the expectations due to which Rajasthan’s problems have increased. Rajasthan have a good pace bowling pair in the experienced Trent Boult and Sandeep Sharma but they will be put to the test against the in-form opening pair of Faf Du Plessis and Virat Kohli.
In the spin department, Ravichandran Ashwin has impressed with his bowling but Yuzvendra Chahal has proved expensive and will have to look into it. RCB, like Rajasthan Royals, have an excellent opening pair in Menduplessis and Kohli, who have got the team off to a great start so far. These two have played two century partnerships so far and will leave no stone unturned to make a big partnership again. Duplessis and Kohli meanwhile have scored four half-centuries each. Kohli though needs to improve his strike rate.
Glenn Maxwell has displayed his long hitting skills but lacks consistency. Along with this, RCB will expect good performances from Dinesh Karthik, Mahipal Lomaror, Shahbaz Ahmed and Suyash Prabhudesai in the middle order. RCB’s bowling attack is strong. Fast bowler Mohammad Siraj is running in excellent form. He has so far taken 12 wickets in six matches, including four wickets for 21 runs in the last match. Siraj has also got good support from Wayne Parnell and Harshal Patel, who have taken eight wickets each so far. However, both these fast bowlers have proved to be expensive and they will have to pay attention to it in the upcoming matches. RCB’s spin department is spearheaded by Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga, who has bowled impressively so far.
Teams are as follows: Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (Captain), Abdul Basith, Murugan Ashwin, Ravichandran Ashwin, KM Asif, Trent Boult, Jos Buttler, KC Cariappa, Yuzvendra Chahal, Donovan Ferreira, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Obed McCoy , Devdutt Padikkal, Riyan Parag, Kunal Singh Rathor, Joe Root, Navdeep Saini, Sandeep Sharma, Kuldeep Sen, Akash Vashisht, Kuldeep Yadav, Adam Zampa.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf Duplesey (Captain), Akash Deep, Finn Allen, Anuj Rawat, Avinash Singh, Manoj Bhandge, Michael Bracewell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik, Siddharth Kaul, Virat Kohli, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Suyash Prabhudesai, Rajan Kumar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Karn Sharma, Himanshu Sharma, Sonu Yadav, Vijaykumar Vaishak, David Willey. The match will start at 3:30 pm.
