Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals: Rajasthan to take their revenge against deflated Bangalore

Two teams who have had similar success in IPL this season go head to head in the battle of Royals to ascertain their supremacy over the other. Having lost in their reverse fixture, the Rajasthan Royals will be keen to take their revenge against Bangalore. It will be interesting to see if the Banglore can fight back after an abysmal performance against Sunrisers in the last game.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

RCB has been in good form in all their games and both their bowlers and batsman have been doing well in this edition of the IPL until their last game against SRH where they were all out for 68 runs. This is the lowest total in this year's IPL. They lost the game by 9 wickets. The inconsistency of Anuj Rawat is an issue for the Bangaloreans and they might bring in Mahipal Lamror for this game. RCB need to improve their batting to reach the playoffs. 

Royal Challengers Bangalore Predicted Lineup

Faf du Plessis (c), Anuj Rawat/Mahipal Lomror, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Suyash Prabhudessai, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Josh Hazlewood, Mohammed Siraj

Rajasthan Royals

Rajasthan has its own concerns at the moment. Their bowlers are leaking a lot of runs which can come and haunt them in the long run. Having scored more than 200+ in their last two games, they still had to scrape the win with pitches favoring the batters. Jos Buttler is in impressive form at the moment and is the current orange cap holder and Rajasthan have little or no concerns in the batting department. For this game, Navdeep Saini or Kuldeep Sen can be picked to ascertain their authority in the bowling department as well.

Rajasthan Royals Predicted Lineup

Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (c & wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Karun Nair, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Obed McCoy/Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal

Expert betting tips

Any score above 170 will be a fighting target for the side-bating first. Expect a similar theme of bowling after winning the toss. RR have lost their game against RCB this season already and with more firepower this time around we are betting on them to cruise their way home. 

Prediction

• RR to win for 1.93;
• Total Runs, Over Number 1 Under 5.5 for 2.00;
• Total Over 336.5 for 2.016