RCB vs RR Match Prediction: When Royal Challengers Bangalore will face Rajasthan Royals in the IPL match here on Thursday, its aim will be to improve its record at its home ground Chinnaswamy Stadium. RCB has faced defeat in all the three matches it has played at this ground so far. The captain’s services will not be available as Sanju Samson is recovering from a muscle strain. Rajasthan’s hopes will remain intact only with victory.
Rajasthan will want to take revenge of the previous defeat
In this match, Rajasthan will enter with the intention of taking revenge of the previous defeat from RCB. Actually, this is the second encounter of both the teams in the current season. In the match played in Jaipur on April 13, RCB defeated Rajasthan by nine wickets in their home. The team led by Rajat Patidar is currently at the fourth position in the points table. They have 10 points and a net run rate of 0.472. On the other hand, Rajasthan is at the eighth position with four points after losing six out of eight.
RCB has an upper hand over Rajasthan
If we look at the head to head record of both the teams, RCB has an upper hand over Rajasthan. A total of 33 matches have been played between the two, in which RCB won 16 matches while Rajasthan won 14 matches. At the same time, three matches were inconclusive. RCB’s highest score against Rajasthan has been 200 while Rajasthan has scored a highest score of 217 runs against this team.
M.Chinnaswamy Stadium Pitch Report
The pitch of M Chinnaswamy in Bengaluru is considered helpful for batsmen. The pitch here does not help much for the bowling side. Apart from this, due to the short boundary, a lot of fours and sixes are also hit. This is the reason why high scoring matches are seen in Chinnaswamy. However, this has not been seen yet in this season. In the three matches played here this season, the score of 200 runs has not been crossed. Apart from this, the chasing team has won all three matches. In such a situation, it is clear that the role of toss will be very important on this ground and the team winning the toss will definitely want to bowl first here.
RCB vs RR: The Probable Playing 11
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (captain), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Romario Shepherd, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal.
Rajasthan Royals: Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag (captain), Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Mahish Teekshana, Tushar Deshpande.
