RCB eye easy passage to playoffs as they face ousted SRH

May 17, 2023 at 2:49 PM
RCB eye easy passage to playoffs as they face ousted SRH

Big Picture

On Sunday, Royal Challengers Bangalore shook up the standings by crushing Rajasthan Rajasthan Royals by 112 runs. The victory vaulted their web run fee from the depths of -0.344 to a much-safer 0.166. From hell to heaven. They are at present fifth with 12 points – greatest positioned amongst three different groups with the identical factors, and therefore with the most effective likelihood of creating the playoffs.

While Faf du Plessis has spearheaded their marketing campaign with the bat – he’s comfortably the event’s highest run-getter so far – RCB’s powerplay numbers with the ball stand out this season. They have probably the most wickets (30) amongst all sides in that section – and the most effective common (18.46) – whereas additionally having the joint-best financial system fee (7.41). Mohammed Siraj has led the way in which on the bowling entrance.

RCB proceed to be on the street – this will likely be their fifth successive away sport – as they now face Sunrisers Hyderabad on the Rajiv Gandhi worldwide stadium. This would be the first assembly between the 2 sides this season, with SRH already eradicated from the playoffs race.
Heinrich Klaasen has been a vibrant spot for SRH – he’s their high scorer with 326 runs in 9 innings at a strike fee of over 170 – whilst Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mayank Markande have blown cold and warm.

If SRH occur to beat RCB, they may take a step in the direction of lifting themselves off the underside of the desk. A loss for RCB could be a giant blow for them in what is sort of a must-win sport for them: they’ll probably fall to sixth, under Royals, whom that they had thrashed to maneuver up the desk.

Form information

Sunrisers HyderabadLLWLW (final 5 matches; most up-to-date first)
Royal Challengers Bangalore WLLWL

Team news

Both Josh Hazlewood and Wanindu Hasaranga had missed RCB’s final match resulting from niggles, and there was no official replace on them since.

Impact Player technique

Sunrisers Hyderabad
SRH may proceed utilizing Anmolpreet Singh and left-arm fast T Natarajan as their Impact gamers – and swap them relying on whether or not they bat or bowl first – like of their final sport, towards Gujarat Titans.

SRH possible XII: 1 Anmolpreet Singh, 2 Abhishek Sharma, 3 Rahul Tripathi, 4 Aiden Markram (capt), 5 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 6 Sanvir Singh, 7 Abdul Samad, 8 Marco Jansen, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Mayank Markande, 11 Fazalhaq Farooqi, 12 T Natarajan

Royal Challengers Bangalore
Wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik had made approach for left-arm spinner Shahbaz Ahmed after RCB accomplished their innings towards Royals final match. Anuj Rawat took over the gloves, and Shahbaz wasn’t required to bowl. But Karthik or Mahipal Lomror may proceed to be substituted with a bowler.

RCB possible XII: 1 Virat Kohli, 2 Faf du Plessis, 3 Glenn Maxwell, 4 Mahipal Lomror, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Michael Bracewell, 7 Anuj Rawat, 8 Wayne Parnell, 9 Karn Sharma, 10 Harshal Patel, 11 Mohammed Siraj, 12 Shahbaz Ahmed/Vijaykumar Vyshak

The large query

Who has been the higher bowler in powerplays in T20 cricket?

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Stats that matter

  • After dismissing Wriddhiman Saha towards Titans, Bhuvneshwar consolidated his place on the high of probably the most wicket-takers within the first over of an IPL sport. He now leads with 25 wickets, and is joint second this season with 5, together with Siraj.

  • RCB’s reliance on their high order is obvious by the truth that No. 5 onwards, their batters have the bottom runs (443), and thus additionally the bottom common (15.82), amongst all groups this season.

  • For a minimal of 25 balls confronted from tempo bowlers in T20s, Glenn Maxwell’s strike fee of 96 and 105 towards T Natarajan and Bhuvneshwar is his lowest and third lowest, respectively. Meanwhile, Maxwell has performed greater than double the variety of balls (146) whereas batting at No. 4 this season, than he has whereas at No. 3 (64).

  • SRH have received six video games – together with a Super Over victory – towards RCB in Hyderabad. Their solely loss was a rain-affected DLS defeat in 2015. Karn Sharma, who was then with SRH, will now be within the opposition camp.

    • Pitch and circumstances

    It ought to be scorching and humid in Hyderabad on Thursday night. The common rating batting first this season there was 172, and 4 out of six video games have been received batting first.

    Himanshu Agrawal is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo