New Delhi. The teams of Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans will face each other in the IPL match on Friday, where both will aim to perform well in batting. In the last match against Delhi Capitals, RCB batsmen were unable to perform on Chinnaswamy’s slightly slow pitch, due to which the team lost by six wickets. This was RCB’s second defeat this season, due to which it lost the chance to consolidate its place in the top four.
Royal Bangalore has eight points and is in third place. After that there are Sunrisers Hyderabad (8 points), Delhi Capitals and Titans (6 points each). Current champion RCB knows that a weak performance against Gujarat Titans can increase its problems, because now it has to play most of the matches at the opposing team’s ground. He will also play his two home matches in Raipur. RCB would now like to give a grand farewell to its fans by winning at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, but for this its batsmen will have to perform well and find a way to score big even in difficult conditions.
Will have to give best in batting
Apart from Phil Salt, no batsman could play well against Delhi Capitals. Six-hitting batsmen like captain Rajat Patidar and Tim David also had to find new ways to score runs, but they did not get much success. Therefore, RCB batsmen should keep a Plan B ready, because aggressive play does not work every time.
Gujarat will change its game plan
Similarly, Gujarat Titans are also troubled with the performance of their batsmen. In the last match against Mumbai Indians, his entire team was out for 100 runs and lost by 99 runs. This has also affected his net run rate. Captain Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler have played well to some extent, but players like B Sai Sudarshan, Glenn Phillips and Rahul Tewatia have not been able to play as per expectations. Gujarat Titans have good bowlers like Prasidh Krishna, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj and Rashid Khan, but they are not getting full support from the batsmen.
The squad is as follows: Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rajat Patidar (captain), Virat Kohli, Tim David, Jacob Bethel, Romario Shepherd, Josh Hazlewood, Nuwan Thushara, Devdutt Padikkal, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Dar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jordan Cox, Suyyash Sharma, Venkatesh Iyer, Swapnil Singh, Jacob Duffy, Kanishk Chauhan, Abhinandan Singh, Mangesh Yadav, Phil Salt, Satwik Deswal, Vicky Ostwal, Vihaan Malhotra.
Gujarat Titans: Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill (captain), Shahrukh Khan, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Kumar Kushagra, Tom Banton, Glenn Phillips, Jason Holder, Nishant Sindhu, Rahul Tewatia, Washington Sundar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Manav Suthar, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Siraj, Kagiso Rabada, Prasidh Krishna.
