The sixteenth version of Indian Premier League will kick-start from Friday with defending champions Gujarat Titans taking up four-time winners Chennai Super Kings, on the Narendra Modi Stadium. With new season, Royal Challengers Bangalore shall be seeking their first-ever title, as they tackle Mumbai Indians within the opening match. The Faf du Plessis-led facet had an honest outing within the earlier season, the place they received eight out of 14 matches. RCB entered the playoffs and defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 14 runs within the Eliminator. However, their happiness couldn’t final lengthy as they confronted a seven-wicket defeat towards Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 2 and misplaced one other huge alternative of claiming the coveted trophy.
The main energy of RCB within the earlier season was their skipper du Plessis, who smashed a whopping whole of 468 runs in 16 matches, laced with three half-centuries and a highest rating of 96. Apart from him, Sri Lanka spinner Wanindu Hasaranga turned out to be the largest constructive for the Bengaluru-based franchise as he scalped 26 wickets, together with a five-wicket haul and have become the second-highest wickettaker of the season.
As IPL 2023 has introduced again the idea of dwelling and away matches, the return of RCB to their dwelling floor at M Chinnaswamy stadium may even be a giant plus level for his or her former skipper Virat Kohli, who battled by means of his lean patch final yr, and is at present in a deadly kind.
However, there are some damage considerations that may be a giant situation for RCB. Some studies have predicted that younger batter Rajat Patidar is prone to miss the primary half of the season as a result of a heel damage. He is at present present process rehab on the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru and has been suggested to take relaxation for 3 weeks following which an MRI scan will decide his participation within the second half of the league.
His absence might trigger RCB to rethink on their batting mixture. With Patidar within the combine, RCB Director of Cricket Mike Hesson had mentioned after the IPL public sale final yr in December that Virat Kohli would proceed opening with skipper Faf Du Plessis. The damage now implies that Kohli might bat at quantity three, with both younger New Zealand expertise Finn Allen or uncapped Indian wicketkeeper-batter Anuj Rawat prone to serve Du Plessis as his opening associate.
Patidar’s availability is just not the one factor regarding RCB. There are doubts over pacer Josh Hazlewood’s standing for the match as he’s at present recovering from Achilles tendonitis.
Full schedule:
Match 1: April 2, 2023 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians, Bengaluru (7:30PM IST)
Match 2: April 6, 2023 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kolkata (7:30PM IST)
Match 3: April 10, 2023 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Lucknow Super Giants, Bengaluru (3:30PM IST)
Match 4: April 15, 2023 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals, Bengaluru (3:30PM IST)
Match 5: April 17, 2023 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings, Bengaluru (7:30PM IST)
Match 6: April 20, 2023 – Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mohali (3:30PM IST)
Match 7: April 23, 2023 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals, Bengaluru (3:30PM IST)
Match 8: April 26, 2023 – Royal Challengrs Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Bengaluru (7:30PM IST)
Match 9: May 1, 2023 – Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Lucknow (7:30PM IST)
Match 10: May 6, 2023 – Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Delhi (7:30PM IST)
Match 11: May 9, 2023 – Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai (7:30PM IST)
Match 12: May 14, 2023 – Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Jaipur (3:30PM IST)
Match 13: May 18, 2023 – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Hyderabad (7:30PM IST)
Match 14: May 21, 2023 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Gujarat Titans, Bengaluru (7:30PM IST)
Strongest XI:
Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Suyash Prabhudessai, Anuj Rawat, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik, Finn Allen, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj
Full Squad:
Faf du Plessis (c), Finn Allen, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sonu Yadav, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Siddarth Kaul, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, David Willey (ENG), Avinash Singh, Rajan Kumar, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma.
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