Who Will Win GL vs RCB, IPL 2017 20th Match?
The 20th match of the Indian Premier League 2017 is scheduled to be played between Gujarat Lions and Royal Challengers Bangalore on April 18, 2017. The match will be played at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot and the live action will begin at 20:00 local time.
GL vs RCB 20th Match: Where to Watch/Live Streaming
TV channels: Set Max, Sony Six, Sky Sports
Live streaming: Bet365, Hotstar, Star Sports
Toss Prediction
The team that wins the toss is recommended to bat first as the pitch is likely to be good for scoring runs, and the bowling sides of both teams are already struggling which is an advantage for the team batting first.
Read ahead for our prediction for the IPL T20 match between Gujarat Lions and Royal Challengers Bangalore on April 18, 2017.
GL Team News & Playing 11
Team News
No injuries to any of the Gujarat Lions players have been reported and no major changes are expected in the team for this match.
Key Players
Gujarat Lions team has some good batsmen who’ve been performing well but not consistently. Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik and Brendon McCullum have scored well in the previous matches and are expected to help the team put up a decent score in this match. Andrew Tye has been the only shining star in an otherwise weak bowling side of the Gujarat Lions. Tye took a five-wicket haul in the match against Rising Pune Supergiant. The bowling side seriously needs to buck up and gather all their skills to start grabbing some wickets.
Recent Form
Gujarat Lions have not been doing well in this season so far. The team has played 4 matches and has won only one of them. It is still early in the season and the team is expected to pick up momentum as they performed well in the last season and reached the qualifiers.
GL Predicted Playing 11
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Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum, Suresh Raina (c), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Jason Roy, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar, Basil Thampi, Andrew Tye, Ishan Kishan, Munaf Patel.
RCB Team News & Playing 11
Team News
No players in the team have been injured recently and the team is expected to go ahead and play without any major changes or drops.
Key Players
The batting side of the Royal Challengers Bangalore has always been their strongest point with batting giants like Kohli, de Villiers and Gayle, but there have been no brilliant performances in this season so far. AB de Villiers and Kohli managed to score a single good innings with the other batsmen contributing a few runs here and there, but the overall scoring has been underwhelming. The bowlers stand in line with the batsmen and have disappointed as well. Badree showed a little hop after taking a 4-wicket haul against Mumbai Indians but overall the side has been bowling poorly.
Recent Form
Winning just a single game out of the five they’ve played so far, Royal Challengers Bangalore have highly disappointed their fans in this season. The team reached the final match in the last season and can hopefully pull off some miracle in the coming games to rise up the table.
RCB Predicted Playing 11
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Virat Kohli (c), Mandeep Singh, AB de Villiers, Kedar Jadhav (wk), Stuart Binny, Adam Milne, Pawan Negi, Sreenath Aravind, Samuel Badree, Yuzvendra Chahal, Chris Gayle.
Team Form in Last Five Matches (most recent first)
GL: L W L L L
RCB: L L L W L
GL vs RCB Head to Head
Gujarat Lions and Royal Challengers Bangalore have played only 3 games against each other where Royal Challengers Bangalore won 2 of them. Both the teams played very well in the last season, when Gujarat Lions reached the qualifiers and Royal Challengers Bangalore played the final match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. The current condition of both teams is exactly opposite of their result in the last season but will hopefully the players will pick up and win some games ahead.
GL vs RCB Betting Odds
Gujarat Lions have a decent batting side that has the capability of scoring but the bowlers need to work hard to help the team win. The odds of them winning are 2.10 with betfair and 2.00 with bet365. Royal Challengers Bangalore, on the other hand, are also not doing well and will have to hope for a miracle to gain points, their odds to win being 1.80 with 1xbet and bet365.
GL vs RCB Prediction
Both Gujarat Lions and Royal Challengers Bangalore have been struggling since the beginning of this season and the bowling sides of both teams especially need to raise the bar of their performance. Gujarat Lions has a decent batting side who can score well if they push themselves hard, while Royal Challengers Bangalore have big scorers like Gayle, Kohli and AB de Villiers who have not scored up to their usual performance standards, but the team is still hopeful.
Final Verdict: Back Royal Challengers Bangalore to win against Gujarat Lions with the odds of 1.80 with 1xbet and bet365.
Apr 18, 2017
20:00 IST / 14:30 GMT
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium - Rajkot, India
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