With batting maestro Virat Kohli again at his best possible and skipper Faf du Plessis main from the entrance with 600-plus runs this season, Royal Challengers Bangaore (RCB) will hope their dazzling opening duo fires in this must-win recreation for them towards Gujarat Titans. Currently positioned at fourth place, Royal Challengers Bangalore even have a greater web run fee (NRR) of 0.180 than Mumbai Indians (-0.128), who tackle Sunrisers Hyderabad in Sunday’s first recreation, and Rajasthan Royals.
Besides enjoying in entrance of their beloved dwelling crowd that may again them vociferously come Sunday, the opposite benefit for du Plessis’ facet is that they characteristic in the final recreation of the league spherical on Sunday night, by which period RCB would know the result of the duel between MI and SRH in Mumbai.
However, it would imply nothing in the event that they lose to defending champions Gujarat Titans, a formidable outfit with out an iota of doubt and led admirably by star all-rounder Hardik Pandya all through the season, the reward of which is a top-two end in the league stage with an actual likelihood of retaining the title they received in their inaugural season.
7 weeks of thrilling contests and all of it boils right down to tonight! _
The final recreation of the league stage, destiny in our personal fingers, and are not we glad to be enjoying for the playoffs qualification in entrance of our dwelling followers! _#PlayBold #____RCB #IPL2023 pic.twitter.com/ZHro9nUHYw— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) May 21, 2023
While Gujarat Titans lead the pecking order with 18 factors after successful 9 matches and dropping 4, RCB are equal with MI, RR on factors forward of their recreation on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Entering this recreation, each groups are coming off massive wins, GT over Sunrisers Hyderabad by 34 runs and RCB by eight wickets over the 2016 champions by eight wickets after a glowing hundred by Kohli, his sixth general throughout IPL.
Dream11 Prediction RCB vs GT
Captain: Faf du Plessis
Vice-captain: Shubman Gill
Wicketkeeper: Wriddhiman Saha
Batters: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis, Shubman Gill, David Miller
All-rounders: Glenn Maxwell, Hardik Pandya
Bowlers: Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Rashid Khan, Yash Dayal
RCB vs GT Probable XIs
RCB Probable XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Anuj Rawat (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Michael Bracewell, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj
GT Probable XI: Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Sai Sudharsan, Hardik Pandya (c), David Miller, Dasun Shanaka, Rahul Tewatia, Mohit Sharma, Rashid Khan, Yash Dayal, Noor Ahmad
RCB vs GT Full Squad
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, David Willey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mohammed Siraj, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Harshal Patel, Akash Deep, Finn Allen, Karn Sharma, Anuj Rawat, Michael Bracewell, Siddarth Kaul, Sonu Yadav, Manoj Bhandage, Wayne Parnell, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Himanshu Sharma
Gujarat Titans: Hardik Pandya (c), Shubman Gill, David Miller, Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudharsan, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Rashid Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Pradeep (*70*), Darshan Nalkande, Jayant Yadav, R. Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmad, Kane Williamson, Odean Smith, KS Bharat, Shivam Mavi, Urvil Patel, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma
