Rajasthan Royals Vs Royal Challengers Banglore: Rajasthan Royals will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 43rd match of Indian Premier League Season 14 today. By winning today's match to be held at Dubai International Stadium, Rajasthan Royals will be eyeing to stay in the playoff race. Virat Kohli's RCB will take a step closer to playoffs by winning today's match.
This match holds crucial importance for Rajasthan Royals, who have won only 4 matches out the 10 they have played this season. In case Rajasthan Royals lose today's match, their journey to thw playoffs would most likely come to an end.
Rajasthan Royal's struggling middle order is proving to be a tough challenge them. Livingston, Parag and Tewatia all have given extremely disappointing performances this season. One of these players could be shown the way out by RR before this match. Karthik Tyagi is currently injured and Unadkat is likely to replace him for this match.
RCB retains third position:
Virat Kohli-led RCB have performed well this season. RCB have scored 12 points in 10 matches, thereby taking them one step closer to the playoffs. RCB may look forward to improve their run rate to get two additional points, which would provde to be decisive in their position in the playoffs.
It seems that RCB has worked a long way to improve their team balance. There seems to be no possibility of any change in their match against Rajasthan Royals. The only possible change may be the replacement of Daniel with Tim David in the Playing 11, to improve the batting front of the team.
RCB Playing 11: Virat Kohli (captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Srikar Bharat(wicketkeeper), Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers, Shahbaz Ahmed, Daniel Christian/Tim David, Kyle Jamieson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mohammad Siraj.
RR Playing 11: Sanju Samson (captain and wicketkeeper), Evin Lewis, Yashaswi Jaiswal, Liam Livingstone/David Miller, Mahipal Lomror, Riyan Parag/Shivam Dube, Rahul Tewatia, Chris Morris, Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya, Jaydev Unadkat.