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Jonny Bairstow & Shikhar Dhawan Both To Hit 3+ Fours & Kagiso Rabada To Take A Wicket
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3.64Match 60 of the 2022 Indian Premier League sees Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings go head to head on Friday evening at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. RCB are in fourth place in the table with 14 points from 12 games so far. Punjab Kings are in eighth place with ten points on the board. Read on as we preview this game. The match begins at 19:30 local time.
RCB have beaten Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings in their last two games and are well placed to compete in the play-offs. They could move up higher in the table with a win in this match.
Punjab Kings were beaten by Rajasthan Royals in their last game but did put in a reasonable performance even in defeat. They will be only two points behind RCB if they get a victory in this fixture.
TV channels: This match will be shown live on Star Sports in India, Sky Cricket in the UK and Fox Sport in Australia. Flow Sports will broadcast in the Caribbean with SuperSport possessing the rights in South Africa
Live Streaming: Fans can stream the match on Disney+ Hotstar and SkyGo.
Although the last two games at the Brabourne Stadium have seen the skippers win the toss and choose to field first, RCB won the toss and batted first in their last game at the venue. We predict that RCB will bat first irrespective of who wins the toss.
We expect a par batting total to be over 190 on this wicket. Pace bowlers and spinners should both get an equal amount of assistance from the pitch in Mumbai.
30 degrees throughout Match 60 with periodic clouds appearing more as the night develops. It will be over 75% humidity from start to finish.
Read on for team previews, betting tips, latest odds, and match prediction for Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2022.
After returning to winning ways with a 13 run victory over Chennai Super Kings in Pune on May 4, RCB put out an unchanged XI ahead of their 67 run win against Sunrisers Hyderabad. It would be a big surprise if there were any changes to the team for this match.
RCB have been strong throughout the tournament except for a three game run of defeats from their eighth to tenth matches. They are targeting their third successive victory in this fixture.
Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood
Mayank Agarwal led out an unchanged team ahead of their defeat against Rajasthan Royals on Saturday at the Wankhede Stadium. Although Kagiso Rabada was the most expensive bowler, leaking 12.50 runs per over, we do not anticipate seeing any changes to the XI.
Punjab Kings have not won back to back games all season but have been impressive in both of their last matches. A real team performance is required ahead of this fixture.
Mayank Agarwal (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Rishi Dhawan, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh, Rahul Chahar, Sandeep Sharma
Punjab Kings have won four of the last five contests between the sides. Before those games, RCB had won four in a row across 2018 and 2019.
Matches Played | RCB Won | PBKS Won | Tie | NR | |
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Overall | 29 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
Last 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
RCB have found a second wind of form in the group stage and are favourites with the bookies ahead of this game. We do expect Punjab Kings to push them all the way.
Punjab Kings beat RCB by 5 wickets in Match 3 of the tournament but it would be a surprise if they were to win this game and do the league double over them.
The third and fourth highest run scorers in this year’s competition are on show in this game. Only seven runs separate Faf du Plessis and Shikhar Dhawan’s contributions so far.
Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli and Glenn Maxwell are our batting recommendations for RCB. du Plessis has scored 3324 runs from 105 IPL innings and is in 19th place in the overall standings. Although Kolhi got a duck against Sunrisers Hyderabad, he had made a combined 88 runs in his previous two innings.
Shikhar Dhawan, Jonny Bairstow and Liam Livingstone are our batting tips for Punjab Kings. Bairstow will be looking to build on his first score of 50+ in the 2022 IPL and now be targeting his average of 41.33 from last season’s tournament. Livingstone is likely to strike fast runs towards the end of the game and the power of his hitting means he is always an option for a big score.
For RCB, Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Hazlewood and Harshal Patel are our bowling tips. Hazlewood picked up the wickets of Rahul Tripathi and Kartik Tyagi in the win over Sunrisers Hyderabad. Patel has taken 14 wickets so far this campaign and is always a dangerous bowler.
For Punjab Kings, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar and Arshdeep Singh are our bowling tips. Rabada is 6 wickets away from bringing up 100 IPL dismissals. Chahar has taken 5 wickets already at the Brabourne Stadium in the 2022 competition.
RCB will bring the consistency of performance to this game with Punjab Kings potentially bringing the fireworks and explosive batting. We are predicting a very entertaining fixture with neither team taking a backwards step. Overall we are backing RCB to get the victory.
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Batting of both teams has not been consistent throughout the tournament, still PBKS looks to have more powerful batting than RCB on papers and will have edge to win this match