Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Punjab Kings: The 34th match of IPL 2025 will be played on Friday 18 April. The match will be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings. The Punjab Kings team has won the defeated match against KKR, so their confidence must have doubled. RCB won the previous match unilaterally on the basis of their batting. Punjab Kings had defended the lowest score of IPL history against Kolkata Knight Riders in their last match, so Bangalore batsmen will have to face Punjab Kings bowling. Royal Challengers Bangalore have not won their home ground this season.
R. of Gujarat Titans RCB batsmen have had to struggle on a slow pitch against Sai Kishore and Kuldeep Yadav of Delhi Capitals and Vipraj Nigam, so Chahal and Glenn Maxwell will try to take advantage of their weaknesses. Not only this, Chahal and Maxwell have been playing for RCB for a long time and are well aware of the situation here.
It is not easy for any batsman to face Chahal, who returned to form with four wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders, Maxwell is sure to find a place in the playing XI despite his poor batting performance. Chahal specializes in length rather than magical balls. It bowls outside the leg spinner of stump, forcing the batsmen to play long shots, often catching out near the boundary.
He also changes his speed very wisely and if the batsmen have to hit a six against them, then they have to make extra efforts. Maxwell is a spinner who rely on control rather than depending on a large turn or depar.
RCB has good spinners as Krunal Pandya and Suyash Sharma and the team will expect a good performance from them. Punjab has good fast bowlers as Arshdeep Singh and Marco Jansen, although they are not as experienced as RCB’s Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Rajat-Srayas impressed as captain
If we talk about the captains, there is not much equality between Rajat Patidar and Shreyas Iyer. Iyer, who has a great record as a batsman in this tournament, has also proved his identity as IPL winning captain. On the other hand, this is the first time a Patidar has become captain in the IPL.
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