Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will take on Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the 36th game of the IPL 2023 on Wednesday (April 26) at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Royal Challengers have won four out of seven games so far this season and are placed in fifth place in the points table. They are coming into this game after winning their previous match against Rajasthan Royals by seven runs after posting a total of 189 runs for the loss of nine wickets in 20 overs. Both Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell scored half-centuries for the team. Harshal Patel played a crucial role for RCB with the ball as he picked three wickets for 42 runs in three overs.
Knight Riders have won two out of seven games and are in 8th position in the points table. They lost the previous game against Chennai Super Kings after failing to chase the target of 236 runs. Devon Conway, Ajinkya Rahane, and Shivam Dube scored half-centuries for CSK and helped post this huge total. KKR lost some early wickets and were never there in the game. Jason Roy and Rinku Singh scored half-centuries for KKR, but that was not enough for the team.
PROBABLE PLAYING XI
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli(C), F du Plessis, SS Prabhudessai, MK Lomror, GJ Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, DJ Willey, W Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik(wk), HV Patel, Mohammed Siraj
BENCH : Anuj Rawat, WD Parnell, KV Sharma, Akash Deep, Michael Bracewell, R Sonu Yadav, RM Patidar, Finn Allen, Avinash Singh, Rajan Kumar, M Bhandage, Josh Hazlewood, S Kaul, RJW Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Vijaykumar Vyshak, WG Jacks
Kolkata Knight Riders
RK Singh, JJ Roy, N Rana(C), AD Russell, SP Narine, D Wiese, Narayan Jagadeesan(wk), UT Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Suyash Sharma, K Khejroliya
BENCH : Mandeep Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shardul Thakur, Tim Southee, AS Roy, VR Iyer, Vaibhav Arora, S Iyer, Liton Das, Shakib Al Hasan, LH Ferguson, H Rana,
PITCH REPORT
It will be the second-last game of the season at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium. The pitch will likely provide a lot of support to the batters in this game. The average first innings score in the last T20 games at this venue has been 194 runs.
