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These two teams are in good form coming into this match. Royal Challengers Bengaluru are in better form, winning four matches in their last five. They won the first match of the season against KKR and then dominated CSK in their last match. Gujarat Titans looked in great form in the last match as they improved their batting in that match. They defeated their rival Mumbai Indians to carry on the win streak against Mumbai in Narendra Modi Stadium.
M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru is the home ground of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru and has hosted 97 IPL matches. The team batting second has been very effective on this ground winning 50 matches. The pitch at Chinnaswamy is a batting friendly wicket where SRH scored 287 runs against RCB which is the highest score of the IPL history. The toss winning team will choose to bowl first at this ground.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans have produced very exciting matches in IPL. Both teams have played five matches against each other where RCB has been in the driving seat with three wins. In IPL 2024, Will Jacks scored a sublime hundred to win the match for RCB in style. GT will have to play at their best to win this match away from home.
Also Read: RCB vs GT IPL 2025 Match Prediction
Royal Challengers Bengaluru features a strong top order with Kohli, Salt, and Padikkal. Patidar leads the middle order alongside Livingstone and Jitesh Sharma. The bowling attack, spearheaded by Bhuvneshwar and Hazlewood, adds experience and pace.
Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal
Impact Players: Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar Salam, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh, Manoj Bhandage
Injury Update: None
Gujarat Titans have a balanced squad with Gill, Buttler, and Sudharsan anchoring the batting. Rashid Khan and Rabada strengthen the bowling, while Tewatia and Shahrukh provide stability in the middle order.
Shubman Gill(c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler(w), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna
Impact Players: Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Phillips, Ishant Sharma, Anuj Rawat, Washington Sundar
Injury Updates: None
Buttler has made 61 runs from 53 balls against Bhuvneshwar. He got out two times. He hit 9 fours and 1 six. In 2023, he played fast and scored 25 runs from 15 balls. But in 2024, he got out for 0 runs.
Gill has scored 57 runs from 56 balls. He got out three times. He hit 7 fours but no sixes. In 2023, he played his best, scoring 15 runs from 6 balls. This battle will be crucial in the powerplay to watch as both will go against each other in the first six overs. Gill also found himself in trouble against Josh Hazlewood, playing 12 balls, scoring only 12 and giving away his wicket once.
Kohli has made 36 runs from 32 balls against Rabada. He got out three times. He hit 4 fours but no sixes. His best strike rate was in 2021 when he made 5 runs from just 2 balls without getting out.
Virat Kohli is the main man for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in this match. He has the most runs at Chinnaswamy stadium playing for RCB. His recent numbers are great and he loves playing against Gujarat Titans. Virat has an average of 114.67 against Gujarat Titans scoring 344 runs in just five innings. He’ll be important in this match.
Josh the boss in RCB and Jos the boss in GT will be a battle of two bosses in this match. We’re talking about Josh Hazlewood here and will talk about Jos Buttler in the further section of the article. Josh Hazlewood has been a great powerplay bowler having taken wickets in both the powerplay in this season.
Shubhman Gill has two good starts now in the first two games and he is eyeing for a big inning in this season and this could be the match for Gill. He has good numbers against RCB in IPL, having scored 304 runs in 13 innings against them with an average of just over 30. Gill scored a hundred in the 2023 edition against RCB and this match will be a good match for him.
There is a lot to talk about Jos Buttler in this match and if we have to suggest you just one player in this match that would have been Jos Buttler. Let’s start with his averages for this match. Jos has an average of 46.55 against RCB - the best for him against any IPL team. Jos has amassed 512 runs in 15 games against RCB with two hundred and two fifties. He will be the most important batter in this game.
Phil Salt will be a great budget pick in this match against Gujarat Giants. He looked in good touch in the first two games and will try to follow that up in this match with a big inning.
Sai Sudharsan is the most technically sound player in Gujarat Giants, or in fact in the whole IPL. He plays no nonsense cricket with low risk shots and provides your dream11 team better base points than any other player. You can take him in your team and he’ll give you 20 points guaranteed.
Rasik Salam played a single game this season against KKR and was benched in the next match and his chances to make it to the 11 is bleak after the return of Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the team.
Mahipal Lomror is a great batter but his place in the team is not confirmed and he warms the bench with his name in the Impact players list. He will only be used in a scenario where Gujarat Titans’ batting will collapse.
Keeper: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler
Batters: Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill
All-rounders: Liam Livingstone, Krunal Pandya
Bowlers: Josh Hazlewood, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Siraj
Keeper: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler
Batters: Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill
All-rounders: Liam Livingstone, Shahrukh Khan
Bowlers: Josh Hazlewood, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneswar Kumar
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