Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will host against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.
RCB is standing at 7th in the points table and LSG is standing 3rd in the points table.
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE (RCB) Analysis:
RCB after a brutal defeat against KKR is back in their homeground. They lost the match by 81 runs. Wanindu Hasaranga might join the team on Monday morning but his playing possibility is still in doubt. Wayne Parnell already replaced injured Topley in the squad.
After a great start in bowling against KKR they grabbed 5 wickets and gave only 89 runs. But after that the hard hitting of Shardul Thakur and Rinku Singh KKR managed to score 204/7 at the end of the innings. RCB struggled pretty much in their death overs where they gave away 118 runs in the last 8 overs. David Willey was only economical and also took 2 wickets. Remaining bowlers were treated brutally by Shardul and Rinku.
During the chase they started well and put 44 runs in their 5 overs of opening partnership. But after the fall of Kohli and du Plessis RCB’s batting just collapsed and they fell just one after another. Whole batting lineup got stuck in the trio of KKR’s wrist spinners. Varun Chakravarthy got 4 wickets, whereas debutant Suyash Sharma got 3 wickets and Narine got 2 wickets.
LUCKNOW SUPER GIANTS (LSG) Analysis:
LSG’s win at home against SRH by 5 wickets gets them in 3rd position. They now have 2 wins in 3 games. They were brilliant in their last game. Quinton de Kock is with the squad but it will be tough for KL Rahul whom he will drop in the playing 11. Mark Wood might also be present in the Monday clash who didn’t play his last match due to injury.
LSG’s bowlers restrict SRH to a below par score where the team only manages to put 121/8 in the scoreboard. Thanks to brilliant bowling of Krunal Pandya who took 3 wickets and gave only 18 runs in his 4 overs. Amit Mishra also contributed by taking 2 wickets.
Rahul and company easily managed the target before 4 overs and won the match by 5 wickets. Rahul starts steadily and scores 35 runs off 31 balls. Krunal Pandya shines with the bat also and scores 34 runs in 23 balls. Lastly, Stoinis and Pooran chases the target easily.
HEAD TO HEAD (RCB vs LSG):
They played 2 matches against each other.
| RCB | LSG | |
| WON | 2 | 0 |
| HIGHEST SCORE | 207 | 193 |
| LOWEST SCORE | 181 | 163 |
Pitch Report:
Match will be played in M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Due to its small boundary size it is mostly a batsman friendly ground where both the teams can score high runs. Therefore the team who wins the toss might opt to bowl first.
Probable 11 for RCB:
Virak Kohli, Faf du Plessis ©, Anuj Rawat, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Michael Bracewell, David Willey, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, Mohd Siraj.
Probable 11 for LSG:
KL Rahul ©, Kyle Mayers, Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Krunal Pandya, Amit Mishra, Yash Thakur, Avesh Khan, Mark Wood, Ravi Bishnoi.