Double header will be played today in IPL 2024. Today's second match will be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals. This match will be played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru from 7.30 pm. The toss of the match will take place at 7 pm. Both the teams will face each other for the first time this season. Today will be the 13th match of the season between Bangalore and Delhi. The host team of the match, Bengaluru, won 5 out of 12 matches and lost 7. The team is at 7th place in the points table. Delhi has won 6 out of 12 matches and lost 6 matches. Due to which Delhi team is at number 5 with 12 points. At present, the playoff hopes of both the teams remain intact. The race for the playoffs will become difficult for the team that loses today's match.
RCB's poor performance continues this season too. However, the team's batsmen are in excellent form. Star batsman Virat Kohli, captain Faf du Plessis and Dinesh Karthik have scored more than 250 runs. Kohli has 634 runs in his name. Kohli is currently the top scorer in both the team and the league. Delhi captain Rishabh Pant is the team's highest scorer. But Pant will not play in today's match. In the absence of Pant in this match, Tristan Stubbs is the team's top scorer. Stubbs has scored 318 runs in 12 matches.
If we talk about head to head teams here, Delhi and Bangalore have the upper hand. A total of 30 matches have been played between the two teams in IPL. 18 were won by RCB while 11 were won by Delhi. Also, 11 matches have been played between the two teams in Bengaluru Stadium. Out of which RCB won 6 and Delhi won 4, while 1 match was postponed. The pitch of Bengaluru's M Chinnaswamy Stadium is proving helpful for the batsmen. So far 93 IPL matches have been played here. In which 39 matches were won by the team batting first and 50 matches were won by the team chasing.
Probable playing eleven for both the teams-
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (captain), Virat Kohli, Will Jack, Rajat Patidar, Mahpal Lomror, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Swapnil Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Karan Sharma, Lucky Ferguson.
Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (captain), Jack Fraser-Magerk, Abhishek Porel, Shai Hope, Tristan Stubbs, Yash Dhull/Kumar Kushagra, Sumit Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar and J Richardson.