RR vs RCB Dream11 Prediction

RR vs RCB Match Preview

Yashasvi Jaiswal is in sublime form this season and played a blistering knock in the last match, scoring his 4th half-century of the season. He reached the 50-run mark in just 13 deliveries, making it the fastest-ever half-century in the history of IPL. Calls for him to be fast-tracked into the Indian team are becoming louder and it remains to be seen just how long before he makes it.

He has an excellent opening partner in the form of Jos Buttler, and together, they will be looking to give a good start to the team here. Buttler was run-out after a mix-up in the previous match. His previous inning shows that he is in good form, though, and we expect another big contribution from him.

Sanju Samson has returned to form and that will be a big bonus for the team. The Royals have plenty of depth in their batting, thanks to players like Joe Root, Shimron Hetmeyer, and Dhruv Jurel.

The bowlers have also played an important part in getting the team to this position. Yuzvendra Chahal bowled yet another brilliant spell in the last match and is the leading wicket-taker of the tournament now.

He has an excellent partner in the form of Ravichandran Ashwin, who has 14 wickets against his name. Trent Boult will once again lead the pace attack and will be joined by Sandeep Sharma and KM Asif. 

The over-reliance on the top 3 batsmen has hurt Bangalore pretty hard lately. Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli have been one of the top opening pairs of the tournament, while Glenn Maxwell has followed up with some particularly good knocks.

We mentioned this when RCB played last but Virat's recent contributions have been poor. He is trying to play more aggressively but that style does not come naturally to him. As great a player he has been, we would not really pick him right now for either the different betting markets or for fantasy contests.

The batsmen lower down have struggled to perform and that has been the case for quite some time now.

The next best batsman in terms of average is Mahipal Lomror, who has an average of 22.17 despite scoring one half-century, while Dinesh Kartik has scored runs at the rate of 14.00 per inning. The team does have some depth in their batting thanks to all-rounders like Kedar Jadhav and Wanindu Hasaranga but they haven’t been able to leverage this advantage.

Talking about the bowling, Mohammed Siraj has bowled a couple of brilliant spells this season and is the leading wicket-taker for the team. He has received good support from Harshal Patel but the latter has been a bit expensive. Similarly, Vyshak Vijaykumar and Wanindu Hasaranga have picked up wickets but haven’t been able to contain the runs.