Today in the 17th season of the Indian Premier League, Royal Challengers Bangalore will face Lucknow Supergiants. The 15th match of the league will be played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru from 7.30 pm. The toss of the match will take place at 7 pm. This will be RCB's fourth match this season. The team lost two matches and won only one. At the same time, this will be the third match of the season for Lucknow Super Giants. The team has won one and lost one. In the points table, Lucknow is at 6th and Bengaluru is at 9th.
A total of 4 matches have been played between the two teams in the IPL so far. In 3 matches, LSG won only one match against RCB. This was the team's only win in Bangalore last season, when LSG won by one wicket in a thriller that lasted till the last over. Lucknow captain Nicholas Pooran took it against Punjab. Regular captain KL Rahul was unable to field due to injury. He batted as an impressive player. In such a situation, there is a possibility that Rahul will play today's match also as an influential player.
The pitch of Bengaluru's M Chinnaswamy Stadium proves to be helpful for the batsmen. There is no help for the bowlers here and batting first is more harmful. So far 90 IPL matches have been played here. 37 matches were won by the team batting first and 49 matches were won by the team chasing. 4 matches were also requested.
Probable playing eleven for both the teams-
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (captain), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Anuj Rawat, Alzarri Joseph/Lucky Ferguson, Mayank Dagar, Yash Dayal and Mohammed Siraj.
Lucknow Supergiants: Nicholas Pooran (captain), Quinton de Kock, Devdutt Padikal, Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Mayank Yadav and Yash Thakur.