RCB vs PBKS Match Prediction: The 34th league match of the 18th season of the Indian Premier League will see a clash between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings. This match between the two teams will be played at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on April 18 at 7:30 pm Indian time. Both RCB and Punjab are playing under the leadership of the new captain this season, in which their performance has been much better so far. While the RCB team is at number three in the points table with 8 points, Punjab Kings also has 8 points and is at number four. In such a situation, all eyes will be on which team can have the upper hand in this match.
Pitch Report of M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
Bengaluru’s M. Chinnaswamy Stadium will host this RCB vs. Punjab Kings game. It is thought to have a very good batting pitch.Playing powerful strokes appears to be a little simpler for the batters here because of the narrow boundary. However, in the 2 matches played here so far this season, it has been a bit difficult for the team batting first to score runs, so the role of the toss is going to be important. The average score of the first innings at Chinnaswamy has been seen to be around 171 runs in the IPL.
All eyes will be on the performance of Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer
The result of this match will depend a lot on the performance of 2 players, in which Virat Kohli’s bat will be very important for the Royal Challengers Bangalore team. If Kohli manages to play a big innings in this match, then it may be a little easier for RCB to secure their victory in the match. Kohli has played 32 matches against Punjab Kings so far, in which he has scored 1030 runs at an average of around 35 and this includes 5 half-century innings along with a century. On the other hand, if we talk about Shreyas Iyer, then his bat has been seen speaking fiercely against RCB. Iyer has scored 393 runs at an average of 30.23 while playing against RCB in 14 matches, while he has also managed to play 4 half-century innings.
RCB vs PBKS: Probable playing 11
Royal Challengers Bangalore – Phil Salt (wicketkeeper), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar (captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Liam Livingstone, Krunal Pandya, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Punjab Kings – Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Nehal Wadhera, Josh Inglis (wicketkeeper), Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.
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