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It's time for the battle of the Royals in the IPL as Rajasthan Royals take on Royal Challengers Bangalore.
RCB
They started off the second leg with back to back losses against Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings but came back all guns blazing against five time champions Mumbai Indians. They are currently at 3rd position in the points table and just need 2 more victories to book a place in the playoffs. There are some concerns for RCB as they are not able to capatilze good starts given by top order, middle and lower order need to make most of the good starts like they did in previous encounter vs Mumbai . Their bowling looks pretty good with Chahal ,Siraj and Harshal Patel who provide wickets everytime . They will look to continue their winning streak by defeating Rajasthan
RR
With just 4 victories in 10 games ,RR is languishing at 6th in points table, Their list of concerns is too long, firstly they are missing some of their marquee players in form of Ben Stokes , J Buttler and J Archer and their woes add up when you look at their overseas contingent. They are lacking good quality spinner, they keep on playing Rahul Tewatia each game who's never a threat for batsman nowadays. Only positive for them is Samson and Mustafizur Rahman's form, they don't even have reliable Indian batsman to look upto in the middle order, persisting with Parag since 3 years who's been highly inconsistent all these years. RR needs to make some changes in their 11 to change their fate. If they lose this game it will almost be curtains for them
Match Info:
Match No. 43 (RCB vs RR)
Date - Sept 28 , Wednesday
Time - 7:30 pm IS
Venue – Dubai international cricket stadium, Dubai
Expected changes
RCB - most likely they will go with same team as they are coming on back of a victory
RR - Few changes are expected, should bring in Shivam Dubey in place of underperforming Riyan parag and other change should be S Gopal in place of R Tewatia
Key battles
K Tyagi vs VIRAT ,AB DE VILLIERS
Y Chahal vs S Samson
C Morris vs G Maxwell
Prediction
Royal Challengers from Bangalore should win this contest as their team looks more settled and big players getting their rhythm back in time before the playoffs.
Expected playing 11
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli (c), KS Bharat (wk) , Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers, Kyle Jamieson , D Christian , S Ahmed , Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj , Yuzvendra Chahal.
Rajasthan Royals : Yashasvi Jaiswal, Evin Lewis, Sanju Samson(C&Wk), Liam Livingston, Mahipal Lomror, Shivam dubey, Shreyas Gopal, Chris Morris, Karthik Tyagi, Chetan Sakariya, Mustafizur Rahman
Dream 11 team
V kohli ,Y Jaiswal , Samson ,Ab de Villiers, G Maxwell, S dubey ,S Gopal, Y chahal ,M Siraj ,K tyagi , H patel
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