Kolkata Knight Riders won the last match but will now face Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. RCB may have lost the first match but they are very dangerous at home. In the last match, RCB defeated Punjab Kings by four wickets while KKR defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by four runs.
The RCB camp might have heaved a sigh of relief after star batsman Virat Kohli’s half-century while chasing the target of 177 runs against Punjab.Good innings are expected from captain Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green and Rajat Patidar. Dinesh Karthik’s experience and ‘impact player’ Mahipal Lomror’s useful innings came in handy in the last moments against Punjab.
KKR have a good bowling attack and if they perform well as a unit, they can cause trouble to the RCB batsmen.KKR have a good bowling attack and if they perform well as a unit, they can cause trouble for the RCB batsmen. For RCB, fast bowlers Mohammad Siraj and Yash Dayal bowled well against Punjab but the rest of the bowlers will have to perform better.
Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph gave 38 runs in the first match and did not get any wicket while in the second match he took one wicket for 43 runs. In bowling, Nadeem took one wicket for 19 runs but expensively bought Mitchell Starc and Varun Chakraborty could not impress.
First Team
Wicketkeeper: Dinesh Karthik, Phil Salt
Batsmen: Virat Kohli, Nitish Rana (VC), Faf du Plessis (C)
Allrounder: Andre Russell, Cameron Green, Glenn Maxwell
Bowlers: Mitchell Starc, Mohammed Siraj, Sunil Narine
Second Team
Wicketkeeper: Phil Salt
Batsmen: Virat Kohli, Rinku Singh, Faf du Plessis
All-rounder: Cameron Green (captain), Glenn Maxwell (vice-captain), Sunil Narine, Andre Russell
Bowlers: Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana, Mitchell Starc
RCB Probable XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Cameron Green, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Anuj Rawat (wk), Dinesh Karthik, Alzarri Joseph, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal (Impact Substitute: Mahipal Lomror)
KKR Probable XI: Phil Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Suyash Sharma/Chetan Sakariya (Impact Substitute: Ramandeep Singh)
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