Royal Challengers Bengaluru will lock horns against Punjab Kings in the sixth match of the Indian Premier League 2024 at their home venue of M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on Monday. Both teams have got off to contrasting starts as RCB lost their opening game against CSK whereas PBKS won their opener against DC.
We take a lot at the head-to-head battle, Players to watch out for, and Squads of both teams in our match preview.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: RCB’s top-order, which is their strength, could not deliver the goods against CSK. Anuj Rawat and Dinesh Karthik had done the rebuilding work but RCB would want to come up with a collective effort. Mohammed Siraj will also need to come up with a better performance as he is the team’s pack leader.
Punjab Kings: Punjab Kings will look to keep the winning impetus going. Sam Curran played a mature knock of 63 runs in the previous match against DC whereas Harshal Patel and Arshdeep Singh bagged two wickets each.
Head to Head: Matches: 31, Won by RCB: 14, Won by PBKS: 17.
PBKS has little advantage against RCB in H2H.
Players to watch out for: Mohammed Siraj, Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis, Cameron Green, Rajat Patidar, Dinesh Karthik, and Glenn Maxwell will hold the key for RCB.
Shikhar Dhawan, Jonny Bairstow, Jitesh Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Liam Livingstone, Arshdeep Singh, and Nathan Ellis will hold the key for PBKS.
RCB FULL SQUAD IPL 2024
Faf du Plessis (c), Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Cameron Green, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Tom Curran, Lockie Ferguson, Swapnil Singh, Saurav Chauhan.
PBKS IPL 2024 SQUAD
Wicketkeepers: Jonny Bairstow (ENG), Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma.
Batters: Shikhar Dhawan, Harpreet Bhatia, Rilee Rossouw (SA), Shashank Singh.
All-rounders: Liam Livingstone (ENG), Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran (ENG), Sikandar Raza (ZIM), Shivam Singh, Chris Woakes (ENG), Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Harshal Patel.
Bowlers: Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada (SA), Nathan Ellis (AUS), Rahul Chahar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Prince Choudhary.
