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CLAIM NOWToss Winner - Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the toss and choose to bowl first
Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Gujarat Titans by 4 wickets
RCB have finally found some form but has it all come along too late for this year's tournament?
We are backing RCB to win!
Tournament: | Indian Premier League, 2024 |
Format: | t20 |
Venue: | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India |
Toss Prediction: | To Bowl |
Weather: | 29.0°C|Clear |
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With the tournament very much into the second half of the group stage, we are coming across plenty of fixtures like this where one team has a significant psychological advantage after a big win in the previous head to head in this campaign. But this match is a real prime example of this as Gujarat Titans and RCB only met last Sunday when RCB emerged with a nine wicket win in Ahmedabad!
The state of the table means that neither team can really afford to lose this match and that goes particularly for RCB who are still rooted to the foot of the league in spite of winning back to back games.
This could be a really close contest but one thing is for sure, we can expect to see plenty of runs again in Bengaluru.
200/3 in 20.0 10
206/1 in 16.0 12.88
171/8 in 20.0 8.55
206/7 in 20.0 10.3
222/6 in 20.0 11.1
221/10 in 20.0 11.05
262/7 in 20.0 13.1
287/3 in 20.0 14.35
199/3 in 15.3 12.84
196/8 in 20.0 9.8
200/3 in 20.0 10
206/1 in 16.0 12.88
197/5 in 20.0
IPL 2023
Gujarat Titans won by 6 wkts
198/4 in 19.1
With Virat Kohli in such strong form, the last thing that Gujarat Titans needed was to come up against a batter in the form of Will Jacks! The English batting all-rounder completed his fourth T20 century in only 41 balls in the reverse fixture and few Gujarat bowlers will want to bowl to him in this game after he hit four fours and nine sixes from his last 17 balls.
RCB are now a team with confidence flowing through each and every limb in the side and we can expect to see a swagger in all of their batters and bowlers in this match.
However, question marks do still remain over their bowling attack, and that remains their main weakness coming into this fixture.
Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Swapnil Singh
Vyshak Vijaykumar, Swapnil Singh, Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Will Jacks, Karn Sharma
Gujarat Titans are a side who do not look a patch on their previous counterparts from the 2022 and 2023 IPLs. They have severely missed Hardik Pandya's confidence and assurance in the captaincy role and any team in any cricket competition of any format would miss a pace bowler with the skills of Mohammed Shami.
Shubman Gill has not had a bad season but the captain has not been as consistent as in previous campaigns whereas star-spinner Rashid Khan has been more effective with the bat than the ball in this year's tournament.
Gujarat need their big names like Gill, David Miller and Rashid to step up and provide some assistance to Sai Sudharsan who has been their only consistent performer in the 2024 IPL.
It's a hard wicket at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in todays match, where you can expect a lot of runs and the last time Shubman Gill played an IPL match at Bengaluru, he score a magnificent hundred. With his team in desperate need of a win, we back Shubman Gill to score over 38.5 runs in todays match.
Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, M Shahrukh Khan, David Miller, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Mohit Sharma, Noor Ahmad
Manav Suthar, Joshua Little, Noor Ahmad, Shahrukh Khan, Mohit Sharma, WP Saha, Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan
There will be some cloud cover at some points on Saturday evening but overall it will be sunny conditions to begin with before clear evening skies in Bengaluru. The temperature will be over 30 degrees throughout with humidity levels progressing above 50% by the end of the fixture.
Pitch Condition
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Average TurnLike so many other venues in the 2024 IPL, this pitch has provided plenty of runs this season with bowlers finding the going tough. Expect to see plenty of pace and carry throughout the game with a par score likely to be north of 255 in this match!
The statistics show that there is not a huge advantage in fielding first at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium but there is still a small advantage to doing so. Therefore, we expect both Faf du Plessis and Shubman Gill to elect to bowl first if they win the toss ahead of this game.
There is plenty of talent in both squads but it is RCB who will come into this game with the magic ingredient of confidence! Gujarat Titans look like a side struggling for self-belief whereas RCB now have a swagger which they will take onto the pitch from the first ball. We predict a victory for RCB on Saturday evening!
We are backing RCB to win!
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