The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) return to the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in the hopes of recovering from their 81-run loss to the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) when they take the field against the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) on Monday, April 10. With the home side looking for a second win in three matches, and for doing so, have decided to hand South African
For Lucknow, they bounced back from their loss to the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) with a comfortable victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabad. Another victory will take them back to the top of the table, and for achieving that, skipper KL Rahul has the liberty the callback Mark Wood into the side after his brilliant start to the season, with Romario Shephard dropped from the side.
About the toss, Rahul won the coin flip and chose to bowl first.
Head-to-Head
LSG faced consecutive losses against RCB in IPL 2022. First, they lost in the group stages of the competition, and then, LSG were eliminated by RCB in the eliminator match of the playoffs.
Matches Played - 2
Matches won by Royal Challengers Bangalore - 2
Matches won by Lucknow Super Giants - 0
Matches with No Result - 0
Pitch Report:
According to Simon Doull, the pitch will favour the pacers more than the spinners. It reportedly has a little bit of grass as well. A batting pitch like that should fetch 200+ runs in at least one innings. There is no dew on the ground as well!
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik(w), Anuj Rawat, David Willey, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj.
Subs: Finn Allen, Sonu Yadav, Mahipal Lomror, Suyash Prabhudessai, Anuj Rawat
Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): KKL Rahul(c), Kyle Mayers, Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Krunal Pandya, Nicholas Pooran(w), Jaydev Unadkat, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Mark Wood, Ravi Bishnoi
Subs: Ayush Badoni, Swapnil Singh, Daniel Sams, Prerak Mankad, Avesh Khan
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