Royal Challengers Bangalore will lock horns against Mumbai Indians at their home ground of M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on 2nd April. It is well said that a good start is half work done and both of these teams will be looking to make a winning start to their campaign.
We look at the current form, head-to-head, players to look out for, and squads of both teams in our match preview.
RCB had ticked the right boxes in the previous season of the league and they will be looking to replicate the same in the upcoming edition. The Men in Red have a decent squad and they will be looking to come up with a collective show to end their quest for the maiden title.
MI, on the other hand, could play like themselves in the previous season. The Rohit Sharma-led team could only manage four wins in 14 matches and finished as the cellar-dwellers of the tournament. They will be determined to make a solid comeback and they have the squad to turn the corner.
Head to Head: Matches: 32, Won by MI: 19, Won by RCB: 13.
MI clearly holds the advantage in the head-to-head battle against RCB.
Players to watch out for: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mohammad Siraj, and Dinesh Karthik will hold the key for RCB.
Tim David, Rohit Sharma, Jofra Archer, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Cameron Green, and Jason Behrendorff will be the key players for MI.
RCB IPL 2023 SQUAD
Wicketkeepers: Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik.
Batters: Faf du Plessis (SA), Finn Allen (NZ), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks (ENG).
All-rounders: Wanindu Hasaranga (SL), Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell (AUS), Shahbaz Ahmed, Sonu Yadav, Manoj Bhandage.
Bowlers: Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood (AUS), Siddarth Kaul, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, David Willey (ENG), Avinash Singh, Rajan Kumar, Reece Topley (ENG), Himanshu Sharma.
MI Squad for IPL 2023:
Wicketkeepers: Ishan Kishan, Tristan Stubbs (SA), Vishnu Vinod.
Batters: Rohit Sharma, Tim David (AUS), Ramandeep Singh, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Dewald Brevis (SA).
All-rounders: Nehal Wadhera, Shams Mulani, Duan Jansen (SA), Cameron Green (AUS).
Bowlers: Jofra Archer (ENG), Arshad Khan, Jason Behrendorff (AUS), Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Raghav Goyal, Piyush Chawla.
