Preview
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has made an outstanding start to their IPL 2021 campaign after they beat the defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) by two wickets in Chennai. The game was also the season opener of the Indian Premier League 2021 tournament.
The Virat Kohli led side now is set to play against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Wednesday, April 14. in Chennai. The SRH didn’t make a great start to the tournament, losing to Kolkata Knight Riders by 10 runs at the Chepauk itself. However, in the head-to-head count, the David Warner led side have 10-7 over RCB. The SRH vs RCB encounter will be the sixth match of the league.
PROBABLE PLAYING XIs
David Warner, Wriddhiman Saha (WK), Manish Pandey, Jonny Bairstow, Abdul Samad, Mohammad Nabi/Jason Holder, Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sandeep Sharma, T Natarajan
Bench
Virat Singh, Jason Roy, Kedar Jadhav, Abhishek Sharma, Jason Holder/Mohammad Nabi, Shreevats Goswami, Wriddhiman Saha, Basil Thampi, Jagadeesha Suchith, Khaleel Ahmed, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Siddarth Kaul, Shahbaz Nadeem
Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli , Washington Sundar, AB de Villiers, Glenn Maxwell, Dan Christian, Shahbaz Ahmed, Kyle Jamieson, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammad Siraj.
Bench
Suyash Prabhudessai, Sachin Baby, Pavan Deshpande, Rajat Patidar, Mohammad Azharuddeen, Daniel Sams, Shahbaz Ahmed, Finn Allen, KS Bharat, Kane Richardson, Navdeep Saini, Adam Zampa
Head-to-Head count
Overall
Played – 18 | Sunrisers Hyderabad– 10 |Royal Challengers Bangalore – 7 |N/R – 1
At neutral venues
Played – 3 | Sunrisers Hyderabad – 2 | Royal Challengers Bangalore – 1 |N/R – 0
PROBABLE BEST BATSMAN OF THE MATCH
AB de Villiers – Royal Challengers Bangalore
AB de Villiers has quite some consistent numbers against the SRH’s bowling attack. In total 15 games, Villiers has earn 520 runs at an average and strike rate of 37.14 and 157.58 respectively. He also have five fifties to an unbeaten score of total 89. If he handles the bat, RCB would probably be at an incredible advantage.
PROBABLE BEST BOWLER OF THE MATCH
Yuzvendra Chahal – Royal Challengers Bangalore
Yuzvendra Chahal as well has reasonable scores against SRH. In 53.1 overs, he has picked up three wickets haul against the Hyderabad based franchise and also made the Man of the Match. Chahal would be an interesting choice as he would be looking forward to make amends for the before matches.
