RCB vs PBKS IPL 2025: It is a challenge for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) to win home. He will face Punjab Kings on Friday. The match will be played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. If RCB has to win in this match, then they have to beware of Punjab’s spin attack.
RCB batsmen had to struggle in front of Gujarat Titans R Sai Kishore and Kuldeep Yadav of Delhi Capitals and Vipraj Nigam on a slow pitch in Bengaluru. Now Yuzvendra Chahal and Glenn Maxwell will try to take full advantage of their weakness. Not only this, Chahal and Maxwell have been playing for RCB for a long time and are well aware of the circumstances here.
It is not easy for any batsman to face Chahal, who returned to form with four wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders, while Maxwell is sure to find a place in the playing XI despite a poor performance in batting. Chahal is the master of length instead of magical balls. This leg spinner balls out of the off-stump and lure batsmen to play long shots, causing them to catch close to the boundary line. He also changes his speed very cleverly and if the batsmen want to hit sixes against them, then they need to make extra efforts. Maxwell is also a spinner who rely on control rather than large turn or dippers.
This experienced in RCB bowling attack
RCB has good spinners as Krunal Pandya and Suyash Sharma and the team will expect better performance from them. The Punjab team has good fast bowlers in the form of Arshdeep Singh and Marco Yansen, although they are not as experienced as RCB’s Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Shreyas and Patidar will be face to face for the first time
Captain Rajat Patidar and Shreyas Iyer have very little similarity. Iyer, who has a great record as a batsman in this tournament, has proved his credibility as IPL winning captain. On the other hand, Patidar has become captain for the first time in the IPL, but inequality ends here because both these players are calm and leading their teams very efficiently. Both these players are considered a good batsman against spin bowling and hence their role in batting will be important. Punjab will be encouraged by winning a low -score match against Kolkata, but it will have to be cautious with RCB, who is very deep in batting and bowling and it is not easy for any team to overcome it.
Possible playing 11 of both teams
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar (Captain), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Yash Dayal.
Punjab Kings: Priyansh Arya, Prabhasimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Nehal Vadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Yansen, Javier Bartlet, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vijayakumar Vishak.