🏏IPL 2024: Match 68 - RCB vs CSK at Bengaluru @ 7:30PM IST🏏 - Page 2

Previous meeting

It was the season opener, at Chepauk. Mustafizur Rahman ran through the RCB top order but a late lift from Anuj Rawat and Dinesh Karthik took them to 173 for 6. In reply, CSK chased down the target with eight balls remaining, with Dube and Ravindra Jadeja posting an unbeaten 66-run stand. In many ways, that result set the tone for the first half of the season for the two sides. But it all changed since then.

Quotes

"He's a bowler that basically bowled the fastest in our group. Every team will like a bowler like Simar because he bowls with a lot of pace and he's very aggressive by nature. Even against our own batsmen in the nets, sometimes I get scared with the way he bowls. Very happy to see that the work that he's put in to finally get an opportunity to play and he's performing well."

CSK bowling coach Dwayne Bravo on Simarjeet Singh

Today’s Match Prediction: Royal Challengers Bengaluru to win the match

Scenario 1

Royal Challengers Bengaluru win the toss and opt to bowl.

Powerplay: 60-70

CSK: 200-210

Royal Challengers Bengaluru win the match.

Scenario 2

Chennai Super Kings win the toss and opt to bat.

Powerplay: 70-80

RCB: 210-220

Royal Challengers Bengaluru win the match.

Team Watch:

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Injuries/Availability: Will Jacks and Reece Topley have returned home to begin World Cup prep and will not be available for this game. Glenn Maxwell should return to the XI

Tactics & Matchups: Yash Dayal has been excellent in the PowerPlay in Bengaluru, hitting his lengths perfectly and also finding swing. He'll be a threat to both Rachin Ravindra and Ruturaj Gaikwad at the top of innings. They have been dismissed five times and thrice respectively by left-arm seamers this season.

Probable XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Swapnil Singh, Karn Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Siraj [Impact Sub: Vijaykumar Vyshak/Yash Dayal]

Chennai Super Kings

Injuries/Availability: Matheesha Pathirana and Deepak Chahar are unavailable due to hamstring injuries while Mustafizur Rahman and Moeen Ali have left for international commitments.

Tactics & Matchups: Ravindra Jadeja has excellent match-ups with three of RCB's key batters. He has dismissed Maxwell six times while also accounting for Kohli and Karthik three times each.

Probable XI: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (wk), Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Mitchell Santner/Richard Gleeson, Simarjeet Singh, Maheesh Theekshana [Impact Sub: Sameer Rizvi]

When: Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Chennai Super Kings, IPL 2024, May 18, 19:30 IST

Where: M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

What to expect: A start-stop game. There is an 80% forecast for rain that is expected to hit Bengaluru CBD around match-start time. The sub-surface aeration at the stadium should facilitate a quick restart. The six games here have been split in the middle between wins for target setting and chasing teams.

Did you know?

- RCB became the fourth side to have sequences of five successive wins and defeats each in the same season. Deccan Chargers in 2010, PBKS in 2020 and SRH in 2022 are the other teams to have such mixed league runs.

- Shivam Dube averages 113.50 against RCB. His four scores against them read: 46 (32), 95* (46), 52 (27) and 34* (28)

- In a reversal of traditional strengths, RCB's spinners have taken more wickets this season (20 at 20.3 SR) than CSK's have (13 at 34.6 SR)

Thanks for the tag 💛♥️.

Most stressful day for me to watch the match.

Go boys

Chal de phatte

Bas barish nhi honi chahiye

Thanks a lot for the tag

There are chances of Chahar returning back in today's match.

Sure nahi hain

But chances hain

Also aaj baarish hue hain Bengaluru mein