After 71 games, finally the time has come where every game shall be a knockout where the winning side advances forward while losing side goes out of the tournament.
In what shall be a game to acquire the rights to face the Rajasthan Royals on the 27th of May at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Lucknow Super Giants will be taking on the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Lucknow Super Giants had a fantastic season and a slip-up late in the season made them reach the eliminator instead of the qualifier which the franchise would be wary of and they wouldn't like anything more than making their maiden season a big one. On the other hand, Royal Challenegers Bangalore feel a bit lucky reaching the eliminator in the first place and would like to make full use of this little bit of luck that has gone their way in an order to clinch their elusive maiden IPL trophy.
Team News:
Lucknow Super Giants: Ayush Badoni who started off his IPL career with a bang seems to have run out of gas which could propel Lucknow to make him sit out in an order to include Krishnappa Gowtham.
Probable XI: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (c), Evin Lewis, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Marcus Stoinis, Jason Holder, Krishnappa Gowtham, Mohsin Khan, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi
Royal Challenegers Bangalore: An underperforming Mohammed Siraj was replaced by an unused Siddarth Kaul for their do or die fixture against Gujarat Titans who returned with the figures of 4-0-43-0. It would be interesting to see whether bring back their trusted horse Mohammed Siraj for this game or whether they would give another go to Siddarth Kaul keeping in mind that he got just a solitary game to prove himself.
Probable XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik, Mahipal Lomror, Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga Harshal Patel, Siddarth Kaul/Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood.
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Head to head: Both these teams faced each other once in the league stage, with RCB winning the match.
1 – Virat Kohli needs to take one more catch to reach 150 catches in T20 cricket. He will become the third Indian fielder to the landmark after Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma.
1 – Marcus Stoinis needs to hit one more six to reach 150 sixes in T20 cricket.
2 – RCB have lost the Eliminator in the last two IPL seasons.
3 – Siddarth Kaul needs to take three wickets to reach 150 wickets in T20 cricket.
3 – Quinton de Kock needs to hit three sixes to reach 300 sixes in T20 cricket.
3 – Marcus Stoinis needs to hit three more sixes to reach 50 sixes in the IPL.
4 – Glenn Maxwell needs to hit four more fours to reach 200 fours in the IPL.
4 – Jason Holder requires four more fours to reach 100 fours in T20 cricket.
4 – Mohsin Khan needs to take four wickets to reach 50 wickets in T20 cricket.
4 – Avesh Khan is four scalps away from reaching 50 wickets in the IPL.
6 – Marcus Stoinis needs to hit six more fours to reach 350 fours in T20 cricket.
50 – Virat Kohli needs to reach a fifty to reach 50 fifty-plus scores in the IPL. He will become the first player to have 50 fifty-plus knocks for a single team in the league.
100 – Wanindu Hasaranga will be playing his 100th T20 match.
100 – KL Rahul will be batting his 100th innings in the IPL. He scored 3810 runs so far, which is the highest of any player within the first 100 innings of his IPL career.
1 – Manan Vohra is one innings away from appearing in 50 IPL innings.
1 – Jason Holder requires one scalp to complete 50 wickets in the league.
1 – Dushmantha Chameera is one game away from featuring in 100 T20 matches.
4 – Harshal Patel requires four scalps to reach 100 wickets in the IPL.
10 – Rahul needs ten fours to complete 550 fours in T20 cricket.
6 – Virat Kohli needs six fours to get to 950 fours in the T20 games.
2 – Mohammed Siraj needs two wickets to get to 50 wickets for RCB in the IPL.
2 – Chameera requires two wickets to get to 100 wickets in T20 cricket.
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