🏏IPL 2025 - Match 52 RCB vs CSK at Chinnaswamy @7:30 PM IST🏏 - Page 2

Tactics & Matchups:

RCB's spinners have been a key barometer of success, taking 18 wickets at 8.06 economy in wins, just one wicket at 9.26 in losses. Rajasthan Royals learned the hard way last week by showing too little intent against Krunal and Suyash. CSK will want to avoid the same trap. The addition of Brevis lends muscle to the middle, and three left-handers - Dube, Curran, and Jadeja - offer match-up value. But their spin strike rates this season of 101.33, 114.47 and 115.38 respectively hint at a lack of intent or fluency that RCB's tweakers could again exploit.

What to expect: There's a forecast for light rain, but it's only likely to briefly interrupt proceedings. That, if anything, gives teams more reason to chase. RCB did defend a total the last time around, but in all fairness, Rajasthan Royals should have chased down that score of 205.

Head to head: RCB 12-21 CSK. The history is heavily skewed in favour of CSK but RCB have won the last two encounters, including a thrilling clash at this venue 12 months ago

Did you know?

- MS Dhoni averages 81.5 and has a strike-rate of 181.11 from 13 IPL games at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium

- Jitesh Sharma is one of only five Indian batters to have a 150-plus strike-rate with a cut-off of 100 T20 innings (Suryakumar Yadav, Prithvi Shaw, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Abhishek Sharma are the others

- Since 2024, there have been only four 200+ scores in Bengaluru, two of them came in that 287-262 game between RCB and SRH.

Thank you Parm for the match thread.

It is a very interesting match to watch. RCB wants to secure their play off position by winning this match.

CSK are waiting to win a match with good score to safeguard their reputation as 5 time IPL champions!

Let us see....

Boys

Thanks for the tag and thread Parm.

Thanks Parm for the thread and tag may the best team win and may we get prediction points..

Thanks for the tag Parm

Whichever team wins, I’m happy

Shame on CSK and their legacy if they loose Twice to RCB in a season.

Thoda jaadu tona main bhi kar loon