Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) pacer Mark Wood has had a sensational begin to Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 season with 8 wickets 2 matches – together with a five-wicket haul of their first sport of the season. Wood was, nonetheless, ignored for the final match in Lucknow in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad final week after failing to get better from flu. But with their subsequent match in opposition to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in Bengaluru on Monday, KL Rahul is likely to be tempted to deliver again his premier pacer.
England quick bowler Wood has the aptitude of bowling at over 90mph and may rattle the likes Virat Kohli and Glenn Maxwell together with his tempo. West Indies all-rounder Romario Shepherd, who changed Wood within the final sport, additionally failed to fireside with the bat scoring a duck.
South African opener Quinton de Kock was additionally ignored in opposition to SRH as his substitute Kyle Mayers has been in nice kind with the bat. With Mayers firing on the high within the first three video games – scoring at a strike-rate of 187.83 – LSG haven’t missed the companies of De Kock. They will desire to proceed with Nicholas Pooran and Marcus Stoinis within the middle-order.
Sri Lanka all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga, who was one of many high wicket-takers for RCB in IPL 2022, is anticipated to lastly arrive in Bengaluru on Monday. Hasaranga has been participating in three-match T20I collection in opposition to New Zealand and has flown to India after the collection. It stays to be seen if Faf du Plessis will blood Hasaranga immediately into the facet after RCB bowlers leaked loads of runs within the second-half of the innings in opposition to KKR.
South African Wayne Parnell has changed Reece Topley however with David Willey bowling impressively in opposition to KKR, the Bangalore facet might look to proceed with the identical possibility. LSG will proceed to overlook the companies of Avesh Khan, who’s but to get better from harm.
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— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) April 9, 2023
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Suyash Prabhudessai, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Wanindu Hasaranga/Michael Bracewell, David Willey, Karn Sharma, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj
Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul (c), Kyle Mayers, Quinton de Kock/Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Ayush Badoni, Romario Shepherd/Mark Wood, Yash Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Jaydev Unadkat
