The Royal Challengers Bangalore, who were captained by Virat Kohli in their first match in IPL 2018, will now want to open the account of win in the tournament against Kings XI Punjab. The good thing for Bangalore is that today's match will be played in their home ground 'M Chinnaswamy Stadium'.
Significantly, Bangalore had to face defeat by four wickets in the first match of the Kolkata Knight Riders. In this match, Sunil Narine made a half century in 17 balls. At the same time, Nitish Rana took Virat and AB de Villiers wicket in the same over.
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Hope these two batsmen have pinned on
Bangalore will be expected to launch an explosive against Punjab against Brandon McCullum and AB De Villiers. McCullum has completed 9000 runs in T20 in his last match, and his confidence will increase for the next match. Apart from these two batsmen, Bangalore would be hoping for good performances from Quinton Deacock, Sarfaraz Khan and Chris Woakes, who had failed against Kolkata.
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In addition to Umesh Yadav and Chris Woakes in the bowlers, the two star spinners, Yuswendra Chahal and Washington Sunder will be expected to return to their respective matches in this match. Both bowlers gave 77 runs against Kolkata.
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Punjab ready to retain victory goal
On the other hand, Punjab's team, defeating Delhi Daredevils in their opening match, would be hoping for a better performance once again by their opener Lokesh Rahul. Rahul made a half-century in 14 balls against Delhi, which is the fastest half-century of IPL history so far. Punjab would like to give Chris Gayle and Aaron Finch the opportunity to not play in the last match in this match.
The 17-year-old Mujibur Rahman, who started his journey in the IPL, had taken two wickets for Punjab in the last match and the team is expecting them to do the same thing again.
Possible Playing XI:
Royal Challengers Bangalore - Virat Kohli (Captain), AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Chris Woakes, Yuswendra Chahal, Brendon McCullum, Washington Sunder, Navdeep Saini, Quinton de Kock, Mandeep Singh, Kulwant Kheerolia
Kings XI Punjab - Lokesh Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Yuvraj Singh, Karun Nair, David Miller, Marcus Stonyis, Akshar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin (Captain), AJ Tie, Mohit Sharma, Mujib ur Rehman.