Hello and Welcome to our preview for Kings XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers Bangalore. We are covering KXIP vs RCB Dream11 Team Prediction, Preview and Probable Playing XI for IPL. The next match is to be played at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore.
Kings XI Punjab are having a good tournament, as compared to their other IPL campaigns. For Royal Challengers though, things have not yet changed much. They will have to keep winning every match they are put in, if they want to march ahead in the eliminators.
On the same venue a day ago, Kings XI Punjab bowlers had a bad day at the office. They used six bowlers against Kolkata Knight Riders while bowling first, all of them had their economy in double figures. KKR scored record 245 runs against them, and made the chase almost impossible. Tye took the most 4 wickets for them. Gayle and Rahul started off steadily, but after Gayle’s wicket, they kept losing the wickets everytime they were about to build a partnership. The score they were supposed to chase had no allowance for such errors.
Royal Challengers kept themselves alive and helped Delhi out the tournament in the process. Bowling first, they had their share of scares, but Chahal and Moeen Ali did well, and Delhi stopped at a par 181. After that it was an RCB fan’s dream come true. Both the trumps, Virat Kohli and De Villiers both scored in 70s and that too in their own trademark style. They Ab stayed till the end, and made sure they were home with balls left in the bank. They will still need their bowlers to do a little better.
KXIP vs RCB, Match 48, IPL
Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore
08:00 PM IST
Pitch is expected to batting friendly.
Avg 1st innings score: 176
Avg 2nd innings score: 160
Kings XI Punjab :
Chris Gayle, Ravichandran Ashwin (c), Aaron Finch, Mayank Agarwal, Mohit Sharma, Karun Nair, Lokesh Rahul (wk), Axar Patel, Barinder Sran, Andrew Tye, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Yuvraj Singh, Manoj Tiwary, David Miller, Akshdeep Nath, Ankit Rajpoot, Marcus Stoinis, Ben Dwarshuis, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar, Manzoor Dar
Royal Challengers Bangalore :
Parthiv Patel (wk), AB de Villiers, Tim Southee, Virat Kohli (c), Umesh Yadav, Mandeep Singh, Moeen Ali, Yuzvendra Chahal, Colin de Grandhomme, Sarfaraz Khan, Mohammed Siraj, Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Aniruddha Joshi, Aniket Choudhary, Pawan Negi, Manan Vohra, Quinton de Kock, Murugan Ashwin, Corey Anderson, Navdeep Saini, Pavan Deshpande, Washington Sundar, Kulwant Khejroliya
Kings XI Punjab :
Mujeeb Rahman, who injured in last match and didn’t complete his 4 overs. Till now no news about Mujeeb Zadran. If we find any news about him then update here.
Ankit Rajpoot probably replace B Sran or Mohit Sharma.
Manoj Tiwary can replace Mayank Agarwal.
Royal Challengers Bangalore :
Quinton de Kock is back from South Africa and available for selection.
They have won their last match and would not like to mess with the combination that has worked for them after long, they are likely to go unchanged.
Kings XI Punjab :
Lokesh Rahul (wk), Chris Gayle, Karun Nair, Aaron Finch, Manoj Tiwary/Yuvraj Singh, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin (c), Andrew Tye, Ankit Rajpoot, Mohit Sharma/Barinder Sran, Mujeeb Rahman/M Stoinis
Royal Challengers Bangalore :
Parthiv Patel/Q de Kock (wk), Moeen Ali/W Sundar, Virat Kohli, Ab De Villiers, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Mohammad Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal
Wicket-keeper : KL Rahul is good choice.
Quinton De Kock is also good batsmens.
Batsmens : Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Karun Nair and Aaron Finch and Mandeep Singh are good options.
We Pick Karun Nair, if you want then replace with R Ashwin.
All-Rounders : R Ashwin, Axar Patel and Colin De Grandhomme are the options.
Bowlers : Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Andrew Tye, M Siraj and Ankit Rajpoot (Risky) are good options.
Mujeeb Zadran is also good bowlers.
Captain and Vice Captain choices : Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, AB Devilliers, C Gayle and Karun Nair.
KXIP :
KL Rahul
C Gayle
Karun Nair
Aaron Finch
R Ashwin
A Tye
RCB :
Virat Kohli
AB de Villiers
Mandeep Singh
Y Chahal
Umesh Yadav