After suffering continuous defeats in six out of six matches, Royal Challengers Bangalore will land in Punjab to lock horns with Kings XI Punjabl; RCB vs KXIP in an order to open the winning account in Indian Premier League season 12. Kings XI Punjab on other side have won four out of seven matches and hence securing fifth position in the points table, so far. Kings XI Punjab witnessed some great sensation of batting as KL Rahul entered in the century club of IPL 2019.
KL Rahul scored a ton against Mumbai Indians, joining David Warner, Jonny Bairstow and Sanju Samson. Though, he scored a century to give team with strong total, but that went in vain as the Kieron Pollard was in different mood. Kings XI Punjab after the loss against Mumbai Indians despite a brilliant performance by the batting side, will push the team to go for several changes in the bowling department, only single change in batting department.
On the other side, Royal Challengers Bangalore have got Dale Steyn as replacement of Nathan Coulter-Nile but he will join the team from April 16 and can play only after April 19 fixture. Likewise, RCB won’t be eyeing towards any further changes except of Umesh Yadav coming in for M Siraj, who is injured. Its been six matches and no victory has been added in the account of Bengalurus. Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the previous match against Delhi Capitals, lets see what goes in Mohali.
Probable XI:
Kings XI Punjab: KL Rahul (wk), Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Sarfaraz Khan, David Miller, Mandeep Singh, Sam Curran, Hardus Viljoen, Ravichandran Ashwin (c), Murugan Ashwin, Mohammed Shami
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Parthiv Patel (wk), Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Marcus Stoinis, Moeen Ali, Akshdeep Nath, Pawan Negi, Tim Southee, Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal, Umesh Yadav
Teams:
Kings XI Punjab: Lokesh Rahul(w), Chris Gayle, David Miller, Karun Nair, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Sam Curran, Ravichandran Ashwin(c), Hardus Viljoen, Mohammed Shami, Ankit Rajpoot, Mayank Agarwal, Simran Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Murugan Ashwin, Andrew Tye, Arshdeep Singh, Moises Henriques, Varun Chakravarthy, Darshan Nalkande, Agnivesh Ayachi, Harpreet Brar
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Parthiv Patel(w), Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers, Marcus Stoinis, Moeen Ali, Akshdeep Nath, Pawan Negi, Tim Southee, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, Navdeep Saini, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Heinrich Klaasen, Himmat Singh, Colin de Grandhomme, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Milind Kumar, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Prayas Barman, Umesh Yadav, Kulwant Khejroliya
