RCB vs SRH Preview: Bangalore look to consolidate place as Hyderabad eye first win

Seeking to consolidate their place after a profitable begin, Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore may have their activity lower out as they tackle a decided Surnrisers Hyderabad within the Indian Premier League right here on Wednesday.
While RCB started their marketing campaign with a morale-boosting win over five-time defending champions Mumbai Indians on the similar venue, the David Warner-led SRH misplaced to Kolkata Knight Riders of their event opener.
Having put up an honest efficiency within the first recreation, RCB will likely be strengthened additional when the immensely-talented Devdutt Padikkal makes the workforce after his restoration from COVID-19.
Padikkal has stated he’s now fully able to play his half within the IPL and assured of replicating his stupendous home type within the ongoing league.
He contracted the lethal virus on March 22 and was in isolation, however has since fully recovered and resumed observe along with his RCB teammates.

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In the occasion Padikkal is unable to return for Wednesday’s recreation, RCB will follow the opening pair of Kohli and Washington Sundar.
RCB may check out the likes of Mohammed Azharuddeen and Australian leg-spinner Adam Zampa within the coming matches.
Kohli and the incomparable AB de Villiers would be the key males once more for RCB in batting, with Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell hoping to make invaluable contributions with the willow.
He regarded good within the first recreation in RCB jersey, and has the backing of the workforce administration, together with skipper Kohli.
Barring the trio of Kohli, de Villiers and Maxwell, RCB look skinny on batting and that’s why Padikkal’s presence on the high is necessary for them.
The 20-year-old Karnataka left-hander was RCB’s highest run-getter in IPL 2020 with 473 runs from 15 matches, together with 5 half-centuries in what was his debut season.
Padikkal continued wealthy type within the final Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (218 runs at a median of 43.60 in six matches) and Vijay Hazare Trophy (737 runs in seven matches).
After their failure within the opener, Rajat Patidat and Washington would look to make amends towards SRH.
Almost all of RCB’s bowlers had been economical towards MI’s formidable batting with medium pacer Harshal Patel returning glorious figures of 5/27. They will definitely search for an encore.
As far as SRH are involved, each their openers Wriddhiman Saha and Warner didn’t get going towards KKR within the first recreation and can look to make up for that towards RCB.
The swashbuckling Warner has near 600 runs towards RCB and he’ll intention so as to add to that spectacular tally.

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In opening, SRH have the choice of reuniting Warner with Jonny Bairstow, who made a fifty whereas batting within the middle-order towards KKR alongside Manish Pandey, who made a 44-ball 61.
Kane Williamson is unlikely to return on Wednesday as coach Trevor Bayliss had stated the Kiwi would require some extra time to regain full match health.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar went for runs towards KKR however the skilled seamer is anticipated to get his rhythm again earlier than later.
The likes of Rashid Khan and Mohammed Nabi may ask probing questions with their artful bowling.
Teams (from):Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Finn Allen (wk), AB de Villiers (wk), Pavan Deshpande, Washington Sundar, Daniel Sams, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Kane Richardson, Harshal Patel, Glenn Maxwell, Sachin Baby, Rajat Patidar, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Kyle Jamieson, Daniel Christian, Suyash Prabhudessai, Okay.S. Bharat
Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner (c), Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Sreevats Goswami (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Virat Singh, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Basil Thampi, Jagadeesha Suchith, Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman.