RCB vs KKR: Royal Challengers Bangalore look to take care of momentum towards fast-sinking Kolkata Knight Riders | Cricket Information – Occasions of India


Battle of the inconsistent
BENGALURU: Having hit the midway mark, the trial-and-error part is finished with as race to the highest 4 gathers momentum.
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On Wednesday, RCB will host KKR of their penultimate dwelling sport earlier than hitting the highway for a protracted haul of away video games. The house workforce will come into the competition driving excessive on confidence after the win over Rajasthan Royals on Sunday. KKR, in the meantime, will look to raise their fortunes and put their marketing campaign again on monitor.
Though RCB are positioned larger on the factors desk – fifth towards KKR’s eighth – their predicament is analogous. Each have struggled to shut out matches with inconsistent batting line-ups. What separates the 2 groups is the highest order. RCB’s prime stars Faf du Plessis,Virat Kohli and Glenn Maxwell have ensured good begins. That mentioned, the center and decrease center orders have failed to hold ahead the momentum.

KKR have been hit by the absence of their common skipper Shreyas Iyer and allrounder Shakib-Al Hasan. Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana and N Jagadeesan have flattered to deceive. One other enormous concern is the type of the big-hitting Andre Russell, who h as scored 107 runs in seven innings.
On a brighter observe, Englishman Jason Roy, who has are available as substitute for Shakib, has hit the bottom operating, scoring 104 runs from two matches.

RCB bowlers appear to have hit their stride, having defended 189 towards Rajasthan. Led by pacer Mohammed Siraj, they’ve been efficient with the brand new ball, however for the higher a part of the season, they’ve struggled within the demise overs. In distinction, KKR has banked on spinners Varun Chakravarthy (10 wickets), Sunil Narine (6) and Suyash Sharma (7), who could not get a lot buy at Chinnaswamy.

The worrying issue for KKR would be the poor type of their important pacers – Umesh Yadav (1 wicket in 7 matches) and Shardul Thakur (2 wickets in 5 matches). On paper, RCB will maintain sway, coming into the competition on the again of consecutive wins, whereas KKR have slumped to 4 defeats on the trot.

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