Coming to Kohli's Dera, Rahul's big win, Mayank's performance with the ball on fire

Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Supergiants face each other in IPL today. Virat Kohli’s fight to return to victory at the Chinnaswamy Stadium at home. RCB lost to KKR in the last match. On the other hand, after the victory against Punjab, the goal of the Lucknow team is to maintain that trend in this match as well. Updates related to the match are highlighted in this report.

Lucknow beat RCB by 28 runs in Chinnaswamy. KL Rahul’s team won two consecutive matches. Virat won’t win in the second match at home.

Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants face each other at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. RCB captain Faf Duplessis won the toss and decided to bowl first. KL Rahul returned to lead the Lucknow team in this match. However, he could not play an effective role with the bat. The Lucknow captain was dismissed after scoring 20 runs off 14 balls.

He played a fast innings of 81 runs off 56 balls. His innings had 8 fours and 5 sixes. Devdutta got out for 6 runs. Marcus Stoinis failed to guide the team in the middle order. Stoinis got out with 24 runs off 15 balls. Nicholas made 40 runs off 21 balls. Ayush Badoni is out for 0 runs. In the end, Lucknow lost 5 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs and raised 181 runs.

RCB vs LSG: First XI of both teams

RCB XI – Faf du Plessis (captain), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Anuj Rawat, Rhys Topley, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal.

RCB and Lucknow face off at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. RCB won the toss and decided to bowl first. KL Rahul returned to lead the Lucknow team. Rahul could not lead the match against Punjab due to not being fully fit, in this match he returned to the role of leader. There is one change in the RCB squad with Aljari Joseph replaced by Ellen Rees Topley. There has also been a change in the Lucknow team. Yash Thakur replaced Mohsin Khan in the team. RCB lost to KKR in the last match.

On the other hand, despite losing to Rajasthan in the first match, Lucknow returned to winning ways by defeating Punjab in the second match. So far, the two teams have met four times in the history of IPL. In this, RCB won thrice and Lucknow won once. RCB is at number nine. Virat has 2 points and -0.7.11 run rate after losing 2 out of 3 matches. Lucknow is at number six. 2 points and +0.025 run rate for Rahul after winning one of the two matches.