Royal Challengers Bangalore
The playoff matches of IPL 2025 will start from May 29. The first qualifier will be played, where teams from Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore will be face to face. Both teams have shown a brilliant game this season. For this reason, she managed to make it to the top-2 in the points table after the league stage was over. In such a situation, Punjab and Bengaluru will have to win this match and enter the final. Meanwhile, let us tell you what RCB’s possible playing XI will be for this qualifier match.
Two dhakad players may return to playing XI
In the last few matches of the league stage, RCB’s team was in tension due to injury to some players. But during the toss of the last league match against LSG, Jitesh Sharma said that he will surprise the rest of the team in the next match. He will have a full strength team. This means that Josh Hazlewood and Tim David may return to the team for the first qualifier match. Both these players were not able to play in the last few league matches due to injury. If these two return, then the RCB team will become even stronger from here.
Will Rajat Patidar be seen doing captaincy?
There will also be a concern for RCB as to who will captain it in this match. Actually, regular captain Rajat Patidar is playing as an impact player due to being an engineer. He only comes to batting. Apart from that, he stays away from the field. Jitesh Sharma is captaining in his absence. In such a situation, it will have to be seen whether the Patidars get fully fit and come down to play in this important match.
Virat Kohli is performing great performance for RCB
Apart from this, RCB will give the same players who were present in the playing XI for the match against Lucknow. The best thing for him is that Virat Kohli has been in great form throughout this season and he is also the top run scorer of RCB. He would now like to continue the same form in the playoff stage.
RCB’s possible playing XI: Virat Kohli, Phil Salat, Rajat Patidar, Mayank Agarwal, Liam Livingstone/Tim David, Jitesh Sharma (captain), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Nuwan Tushara/Josh Hazlewood
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