RCB vs LSG IPL Prediction: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Lucknow Super Giants, 15th Match of IPL
RCB vs LSG IPL Prediction: Royal Challengers Bangalore will host Lucknow Super Giants in the 15th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL), 2023, at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, on April 10th. Royal Challengers Bangalore had a huge step back against the Kolkata Knighter Riders side, who are in the form of doing impossible as they did last night against the Gujarat Titans when Rinku Singh smashed 5 sixes in 5 balls when the team needed 28 runs off 5 balls which were impossible till Rinku Singh made it possible.
The Last time Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants played against each other was in the Eliminator of IPL 2022 season, in which Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 14 runs, and Rajat Patidar was the player of the match for his amazing 112 runs knock.
Royal Challengers Bangalore had a great start with the ball against the Kolkata Knight Riders in their last match when they pushed back the Kolkata Knight Riders 89-5 in the 11th over. It was Lord Shardul Thakur’s innings that smashed the Royal Challengers Bangalore bowlers out of the park as he scored 68 runs in just 29 balls and made his team set a total of 204 in 20 overs.
When Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis opened together and gave a decent start to the team, everyone thought that they could win easily, but then Sunil Narine picked Kohli’s wicket, and after that downfall of Royal Challengers Bangalore started as they got all out on just 127 runs and lost the match by a huge margin of 81 runs.
Lucknow Super Giants were in total control against SunRisers Hyderabad in their last match as they won the match by five wickets. Krunal Pandya gave the player of the match performance as he took three important wickets and also scored 34 valuable runs to make his team win the match by five wickets. SunRisers was helpless and confused about their picking order and reading how the pitch would behave.
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RCB vs LSG: Head-to-head Record
Royal Challengers Bangalore played two matches against each other in the previous season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) won both matches against the Lucknow side. In the first match, RCB won by 18 runs, and in the next match, they won by 14 runs. This was the eliminator match in which Rajat Patidar scored a brilliant century, and Josh Hazlewood took three wickets, but this year both of the RCB players are out of the IPL due to injury.
RCB vs LSG: Pitch Report of M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
Stats from IPL matches played at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
Matches Played | 80 |
Batting first won | 32 |
Batting second won | 45 |
Average 1st innings batting score | 168 |
Pace Bowlers Took | 432 Wickets |
Spin Bowlers Took | 265 Wickets |
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium has been a paradise for the batsmen as it has batting friendly pitch and short boundaries, which makes it very hard for bowlers to defend runs, and there have been high-scoring matches played on this ground.
In the last match, Tilak Varma, Faf du Plessis, and Virat Kohli showed that if you play your shots with the straight bat, then scoring runs on this pitch is easy, and hitting sixes on this ground is easiest than on other grounds on India. The players hit 20 Sixes in the last match on this ground. Spinners find it so hard to bowl on this pitch as the ground has small boundaries, which makes it hard for them to defend the runs.
Team Preview of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
Royal Challengers Bangalore will look to bounce back as they lost to Kolkata Knight Riders in their last match. The big happy news for Royal Challengers Bangalore is that their star performer, the Sri Lankan spinner Wanindu Hasaranga is back in the team.
There is a bit of doubt as Karan Sharma is also doing good in the recent matches, and on the M. Chinnaswamy, there is no way that RCB will go with two spinners. Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis will look to give a good opening stand because when they got out last time, everyone else failed to score runs.
Important Players of Royal Challengers Bangalore in a match against the Lucknow Super Giants.
Virat Kohli has been great on this ground as he has three centuries and 20 half-centuries in 90 matches. He scored 2844 runs with an average of 37 runs per match, and RCB will heavily rely on him. The bowlers of Royal Challengers Bangalore have not been good on this ground as they leaked too many runs, and mostly RCB lost their match when they defended on this ground even after setting a high total. Karan Sharma also has a good record here, as he took 10 wickets in five matches. Siraj is also looking at fine form, and Faf du Plessis has a great average of 65 runs on this ground.
RCB vs LSG: Team Preview of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
Lucknow Super Giants will be confident in their match against the RCB after they won their last match against the SunRisers Hyderabad side. Lucknow till now played three matches in which they won two and lost one match. In the last match, Krunal Pandya’s performance gave Lucknow team the to win easily against the SRH side, which seemed sloppy.
Important Players of Lucknow Super Giants in the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Lokesh Rahul’s form is still a concern as he is not able to score much in his last three matches, and also, his strike rate of his went down. Kyle Mayers has been phenomenal with his explosive batting, as he scored 139 runs in just 3 matches, and the pitch going to be in his favor. His strike rate is commendable as he scored runs with a strike rate of 187.
KL Rahul had a good performance against the RCB side in the past. He scored 432 runs in six matches against the RCB since 2020 in IPL, which is amazing. And even in his last match against the RCB side KL Rahul scored 79 runs in just 58 balls, which makes him the biggest threat for the RCB side.
If Quinton De Kock comes into the team, then he will be one of the important players for the side, as he has an average of 46 runs per match at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.
RCB vs LSG Probable Lineup
Royal Challengers Bangalore Probable XI
Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli, Michael Bracewell, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik, Shahbaz Ahmed, Anuj Rawat, Harshal Patel, David Willey, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep
Lucknow Super Giants Probable XI
KL Rahul(c), Kyle Mayers, Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran(w), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Amit Mishra, Yash Thakur, Jaydev Unadkat, Ravi Bishnoi
Impact Players from both team
Royal Challenger Bangalore can use Anuj Rawat as the impact player who will replace Mohammed Siraj when RCB bats.
Lucknow Super Giants can use Ayush Badoni as an Impact player to replace Amit Mishra when LSG bats.
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