Abu Dhabi . The teams of Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on the 13th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium here today. The match will be like a virtual quarter-final, where the team that wins will qualify for the playoffs. Although the losing team will not be out but for that the performance of other teams will matter. The situation is the same for both teams at the moment. In the score table, Bangalore are in second place with 14 points from seven wins, six defeats. While Delhi is ranked third with these figures due to net run rate.
Delhi had a great start to the season, but it was so late for them to make it to the playoffs due to the loss of the last four matches.
He will now have to beat Bangalore to finish second. If Bangalore beats Delhi, then Delhi will have to hope that Chennai Super Kings, Kings XI beat Punjab and Mumbai Indians beat SunRajers Hyderabad. In such a situation, Punjab and Hyderabad will remain at 12 points.
The same situation prevails with Bangalore. If he wins against Delhi, he will also hope the same as Delhi will in the event of defeat. Both the teams, however, will not give up their future decisions in this match with the defeat of the rest of the teams and will make every effort to win them.
Now it has to be seen which team comes to victory in this fierce battle and whose future depends on the shoulders of the other.
If both teams are talked about, then they are losing in their last matches. Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi and Hyderabad defeated Bangalore.
The worry for Delhi is that their batting is not going on for the last few matches, due to which the bowlers of the team are not getting good scores to save. In their last match, Delhi could only manage 110 runs in 20 overs against Mumbai.
This is a concern for the team. Shikhar Dhawan’s form has been lost. Prithvi Shaw’s bat is also not moving. Captains Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant have also not been able to score runs and Marcus Stoinis, Shimran Hetmyer have also not been able to show their stormy style in the lower order.
All these things are troublesome for Delhi which she would like to overcome against Bangalore, otherwise her dream of winning her first IPL title may once again remain incomplete.
Bangalore has the same story. Bangalore, trying their first title, could only manage 120 against Hyderabad in their last match. That match once again saw the dependence of Virat Kohli and Abraham de Villiers and the team was shattered as both were out.
This season, however, Devadatta Padikal has handled the responsibility of the opener well and Chris Morris has also shown good hands in the lower order. Both of them will also need to score runs in this important match.
Comparing the bowling of both teams, Delhi dominates. He has names like Kagiso Rabada and Enrique Norkhia who are consistently doing better for the team. The pair of Ravichandran Ashwin and Akshar Patel can also prove to be dangerous for Bangalore.
Bangalore bowling is also good. Maurice, Navdeep Saini and Isuru Udana have consistently done well and won the team in many important matches. A good thing for these three is that the confidence of Delhi batsmen will be weak at this time which they can attack.
Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal is an important weapon for Bangalore who can trap anyone in his spin.
Teams (likely):
Delhi Capitals: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Alex Carey, Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Shikhar Dhawan, Shimran Hetmyer, Akshar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Marcus Stoinis, Chemo Paul, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada , Mohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sandeep Lamichane, Enrique Norkhia, Tusshar Deshpande.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (captain), Aaron Finch, Devadatta Padikal, AB de Villiers, Josh Phillippe, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dubey, Navdeep Saini, Umesh Yadav, Dale Steyn, Yuzvendra Chahal, Moin Ali, Pawan Deshpande, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Mohammad Siraj, Chris Maurice, Pawan Negi, Parthiv Patel, Shahbaz Ahmed, Isuru Udana, Adam Jampa, Ken Richardson.
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