Dubai: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will face Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the Indian Premier League at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday (October 25).
Three-time IPL champions Chennai Super Kings are all but out of the competition, and have just three wins in eleven games. Apart from Faf du Plessis and Sam Curran, none of the CSK players have done justice with their game.
MS Dhoni still due a big knock in this competition, and the failure of their captain has hit CSK hard. Their batting and bowling units haven’t really clicked on point, which is one of the main reasons why they lie at the bottom of the table.
Their opponents, the Royal Challengers Bangalore, have been utterly sensational this season and are just one win away from a playoff spot. Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers have been well complemented by the bowlers, with Mohammed Siraj registering his career-best figures in the previous match against KKR.
With Chahal and Morris excelling with the ball as well, RCB will be eyeing a top-two spot, which would be a remarkable improvement from their last-place finish in the previous season.
The last time these two sides faced off against one another, Virat Kohli slammed an authoritative fifty in what was a thumping win for RCB. Although Kohli and co are the clear favourites for this game, you can never write off CSK, who will be able to express themselves with freedom.
We should be in for a cracking encounter of cricket to kickstart an action-stuffed Sunday in IPL 2020.
Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (captain), Ambati Rayudu, Faf du Plessis, Shane Watson, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Murali Vijay, Mitchell Santner, Josh Hazlewood, Shardul Thakur, Sam Curran, N Jagadeesan, KM Asif, Monu Kumar, R Sai Kishore, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Karn Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Deepak Chahar, Piyush Chawla, Imran Tahir
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Parthiv Patel (wk), Aaron Finch, Josh Philippe, Chris Morris, Moeen Ali, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Washington Sundar, Pavan Deshpande, Virat Kohli (captain), Shahbaz Ahmed, Devdutt Padikkal, Adam Zampa, Yuzvendra Chahal, Navdeep Saini, Dale Steyn, Pawan Negi, Isuru Udana, Shivam Dube, AB de Villiers.
