🏏IPL 2022 Match 39: Bangalore Vs Rajasthan🏏

IPL 2022 Match 39: Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Rajasthan Royals

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Yesterday it was all about Kings and today it is about Royals!!

RCB's out-of-touch batting looks to fire against RR's competent bowling in Royal battle

Royal Challengers may look to replace Anuj Rawat in bid to firm up misfiring top order against Yuzvendra Chahal and co

Start poorly, recover, gain momentum, lose a few and then make a last-ditch climb to the playoffs. This has somewhat been a loose trend both Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals have followed over the past few years. In that sense, being among the early pace-setters is an unusual position to be in.

Royals are slightly better off at present, having racked up impressive wins over Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals to be placed third on the points table with five wins in seven games. Royal Challengers would be relieved their customary mid-season shellacking is out of the way. A forgettable 68 all out two nights ago against Sunrisers Hyderabad leaves them currently at fifth spot, but with five wins in eight.

In the first exchange three weeks ago, Royal Challengers overcame a middle-order slump to chase down 170. Royals will be itching to pull one back, and on current form you wouldn't want to bet against them being able to do that.

The match is another exchange between key Royals players up against their former team. Devdutt Padikkal and Yuzvendra Chahal have played key roles with bat and ball. However, Anuj Rawat, a former Royals player too, hasn't quite set the batting charts on fire for his new team, and is in danger of losing his place.

But the one man who isn't yet in threat of losing it, but is in desperate need for runs is Virat Kohli. An unusually prolonged patch of low scores this season - something he hasn't been used to over the past few years - is something he will need to try and find a way out of.

Probable Playing XIs for RCB vs RR

Royal Challengers Bangalore:

Faf du Plessis (c), Anuj Rawat/Mahipal Lomror, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Suyash Prabhudessai, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Josh Hazlewood, Mohammed Siraj

Rajasthan Royals:

Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (c & wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Karun Nair, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Obed McCoy/Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal

Pitch Report:

It has been quite a while since the last game between CSK and GT took place at the MCA Stadium. Any score above 170 is going to be tough for the team batting second, however, the captain that wins the toss will be tempted to bowl first considering the dew factor.

Weather Forecast:

Mumbai weather is expected to be mostly sunny on Tuesday. It is highly unlikely that rain will play spoilsport during the Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore game as there are only 10 percent chances of precipitation. The wind speed is expected to be around 24 km/h on matchday, while the temperature could hover about 28 degrees Celsius to 31 degrees Celsius. The humidity is forecasted to be around 71 percent.

Head to head: RCB and RR faced each other in 26 IPL matches, with RCB winning 13 and RR winning 10 (Three of these matches ended in a no-result).

Royal Challengers Bangalore:

Faf du Plessis’s form is little worrisome, in the last 4 matches, Faf has scored 96 runs against LSG but couldn’t pass the single digit score in other 3 matches.

Virat Kohli and Anuj Rawat are losing their form now and this will affect the batting line-up immensely.

The middle order of RCB, where their core strength is in this season, looks in a way better spot than the top order.

Maxwell and Karthik are doing a fine job to hit those crucial runs towards the end of the innings. Prabhudessai is also seen struggling a little while Shahbaz Ahmed is playing a pretty good innings.

Hasaranga needs to level up his game after going wicket less in the last 2 matches.

Hazlewood and Patel are able to pick wickets so far but Siraj isn’t playing up to the team’s expectations, especially after he was retained.

Rajasthan Royals:

Rajasthan Royals currently have one of the best squads of the season.

Buttler is in the best IPL form ever, scoring 3 centuries and scoring 491 runs. Devdutt Padikkal is also gaining his form after scoring 54 runs in the last match.

Skipper Sanju Samson has been scoring well in the last 2 matches and Shimron Hetmyer is doing his job perfectly to score those quick knocks.

Riyan Parag and Ashwin are not the best middle order batters but they are given the job. Ashwin is performing well with the ball. In the last match he picked 2 wickets for 32 runs.

Obed McCoy has now joined the party with the best bowling line-up of the season - Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravi Ashwin.

RCB for the win 🥳

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Milestones waiting be reached:

1 – Yuzvendra Chahal needs one more wicket to overtake Piyush Chawla and become the second-highest wicket-takers among spinners in the IPL. Only Amit Mishra has more wickets among spinners.

1 – R Ashwin needs one more wicket to reach 150 wickets in the IPL. He will become the second off-spinner to the milestone, after Harbhajan Singh.

2 – Jos Buttler scored hundreds in both his last two matches, becoming only the second player to do it in the Indian Premier League, after Shikhar Dhawan.

3 – Yuzvendra Chahal needs to pick three more wickets to overtake Shreyas Gopal and have the most wickets by a spinner for Rajasthan Royals in an IPL season.

9 – Runs needed by Jos Buttler to become the first player to score 500 runs this season. If he reaches there, he will become the joint-fastest player to 500 runs in an IPL season, along with Virat Kohli in 2016. He will become the second overseas player to score 500+ IPL runs for Rajasthan Royals in a season, after Shane Watson in 2013.

18 – Wickets were taken by Yuzvendra Chahal so far in this IPL season, leading the Purple Cap chart. His average of 11.33, a strike rate of 9.3, and economy of 7.28 are all the best among players who took more than ten wickets this season. He also has the best bowling figures this season (5/40).

68 – RCB were bowled out for 68 in their last match, playing against SRH. This was the lowest team total in the ongoing IPL season.

105 – Dinesh Karthik’s batting average so far this season. He scored 210 runs being dismissed only twice and has a tremendous strike rate of 200.

2 – Shimron Hetmyer (48) needs two sixes to reach 50 maximums in the IPL.

41 – Jos Buttler (2459) is 41 runs away from reaching 2500 runs in the tournament.

6 – Sanju Samson (394) needs six fours to get to 400 fours in T20 cricket.

2 – Samson (198) needs two fours to complete 200 fours for RR in the IPL.

19 – Glenn Maxwell (7981) is 19 runs away from reaching the milestone of 8000 T20 runs.

3 – Samson (147) is three big hits away from completing 150 maximums in the league.

4 – Buttler (96) is four sixes away from reaching 100 maximums for RR in the IPL.

9 – Jos Buttler (341) needs nine sixes to get to 350 maximums in T20 cricket.

2 – Obed McCoy (48) is two scalps away from reaching 50 wickets in the T20 games.

68 – Buttler (1932) requires 68 runs to reach 2000 IPL runs for RR.

7 – Dinesh Karthik (6493) requires seven runs to reach 6500 runs in the T20 matches.

1 – Karun Nair (99) is also one six away from completing 100 maximums in T20 cricket.

4 – Mohammed Siraj (46) needs four wickets to complete 50 wickets for RCB in the IPL.

3 – Siddarth Kaul (147) requires three wickets to get to 150 wickets in T20 cricket.

2 – Hetmyer (48) also requires two fours to complete 50 fours in the league.

5 – Ashwin (495) needs five runs to get to 500 runs in the IPL.

Originally posted by: Palak2812

RCB for the win 🥳

Bro RR will win😂😂

Buttler ko predict nahi karna, I have a feeling ki aaj wo nahi chalega😆

Baki apna-2 dekh lena🤣