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Advance: The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) led by Virat Kohli will play the Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the scorching heat of Abu Dhabi on Saturday to kick off the double rounds in the current 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Both teams are tied at four points, but the team led by Steve Smith is in fourth place in the overall standings as of now, one place above Bangalore, due to a slightly better run rate.
Saturday’s game will be both teams’ first game in Abu Dhabi. Prior to this, RCB has played all three of its games in Dubai, while Rajasthan showed its hitting power in its first two games in Sharjah before bumping into Kolkata Knight Riders in Dubai.
Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Stadium is on the bigger side and the Royals’ experience of playing in Dubai should help them make more informed decisions. The early afternoon means that dew will not be a factor and a dry field can offer help to the spinners on both teams.
Given they have an established mix of foreign players, a possible change to the Royals’ eleven could be to replace pacemaker Ankit Rajpoot with Varun Aaron, who has yet to make a game.
The team benched young starter Yashasvi Jaiswal after the arrival of Jos Buttler, but calls for his inclusion have increased. With the top three from Smith, Buttler and Sanju Samson in shape choosing themselves, the graceful southpaw can only play in the middle order. There is also a case where Smith dropped the order to allow Jaiswal to open to ensure the youngster hits his natural position and a left-to-right combination can go over the top.
Both the Royals and RCB enter Saturday afternoon’s game with two wins from three games.
RCB is off to a promising start but needs to improve his fielding and death bowling. Navdeep Saini threw a neat Super Over against the Mumbai Indians to bring his team to the line after RCB leaked 79 runs in the final four overs to tie the game.
The Bangalore franchise made three changes in the previous clash and is likely to give those players, Isuru Udana, Adam Zampa and Gurkeerat Mann, another chance.
The decision to open the bowling alley with Washington Sundar paid off when the official returned with figures of 12 for one in four overs in a game in which more than 400 runs were scored.
Ab de Villiers has shown a sinister touch and it should be encouraging for the team’s leadership to see Shivam Dube deliver the big shots towards the end against the Mumbai Indians. Skipper Kohli has yet to set the tournament on fire and Saturday could be his day.
Here are the two squads:
Full equipment of Rajasthan Royals: Steve Smith, Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Mahipal Lomror, Manan Vohra, Riyan Parag, Robin Uthappa, David Miller, Ankit Rajpoot, Mayank Markande, Shreyas Gopal, Varun Aaron, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi, Akash Singh, Oshane Thomas , Andrew Tye, Rahul Tewatia, Shashank Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anirudha Joshi, Tom Curran, Sanju Samson, Anuj Rawat
Full Squad of Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Gurkeerat Mann, Devdutt Padikkal, Aaron Finch, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Adam Zampa, Dale Steyn, Isuru Udana, Moeen Ali, Pawan Negi, Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Chris Morris, Pavan Deshpande, Parthiv Patel, Joshua Philippe, Shahbaz Ahmad.
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(With PTI inputs)
