CRICKET99 Cricket Live Score ,Matches & Tournaments The Match no. 17 RCB vs RPS of one of the biggest and most popular T20 cricket tournament Indian Premier League will be played today on 16th April 2017 at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru which is the home ground of Royal Challengers Bangalore. As today is Sunday two matches will be played in IPL 2017 that why this match will start at 8:00 pm. The match is between Indian captain of ODI & T20 format Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the Test format Captain Virat Kohli. Both the team are lagging behind in the tournament and the team which will won in this RCB vs RPS match of IPL 2017 will alive their chance to qualify into the Play-offs. You can find the preview and RCB vs RPS prediction of the match below.
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rising Pune Supergiants Match Preview :-
Lets have a look onto the RCB performance in the tournament, They have played 7 matches in the league out of which they have got success in winning the match. Bangalore team has one of the strongest batting line up among other teams. The cricket legend AB de Villiers, Australian all-rounder Shane Watson, one of the hardest hitter of the ball and who is known for his long sixes Chris Gayle and one of the most consistence cricketer of 2016 Virat Kohli are there in the squad and all are performing and scoring runs. The problem is with the bowling, yes they have worst bowing performance in the IPL 2017. They have scored 180+ runs many time in the tournament but defend only one time in front of Rising Pune Supergiants in which they won by 13 runs. They have Mitchell Strac in their squad but due to injury he his out of the tournament which weakens their bowling unit. No one bowler is looking impressive. If we look onto the names only Kane Richardson looks better among their other bowlers. They have to do lot of work on their bowling. From last two games, they haven’t score enough runs as well, de Villiers bat is quiet in these two games which is one of the reason for not boosting up the score in the slog overs. Hope in the coming match batting and bowling department will give their 100% and bring victory to the team which is much need for them. RCB is on the 7th Position in the points table with 4 points. They have played 7 match and 7 more matches still to go for them and if they want to move to the next round of the IPL 10 they have to beat RPS. Virat Kohli is the leading run scorer of the tournament so far scored 433 runs in 7 matches with 4 fifties and 1 century which is good for the team. Lets see how they will perform in the upcoming match against Rising Pune Supergiants.
The RPS team is struggling with the injury almost all big overseas players got injured and rule out of IPL 2017. First Kevin Pietersen, then Faf du Plessis injured due to fracture in his finger, after that Mitchell Marsh and just few days back the Australian captain Steven Smith out of the tournament due to injury in his wrist. So the big names are gone but Pune franchise signed Usman Khawaja and Geaorge Bailey as the replacement which strengthened the batting line up of the team. The Rising Pune Supergiants won their last match against Delhi Daredevils by 7 wickets which bring the confidence into the players if the team. Khawaja and Bailey both have played their first match of the tournament against DD and will be ready to rock the tournament in the upcoming matches. Ajinkya Rahane is the leading run scorer for the team. He score 343 runs in 9 innings with 5 fifties. Saurabh tiwary is also looking good from last two innings. So the batting is improving match by match. In the bowling department Rajat Bhatia, Ashok Dinda, Thisara Perera, Murugan Ashwin are looking good but they Key bowler R Ashwin is not impressive with the ball so far. In this season his magic with the ball is not tickling up. Hope he will be back with his magical deliveries for his team.
Rising Pune Supergaints have played 9 matches so far and only able to snatch 3 wins and faced 6 defeats. They are on the sixth position in the Points table. This match is very important for them. If they want to reach to the play-offs then have to won this match against RCB.
Toss : How it matter :-
As we all know in T20 cricket it is advantage for the team batting second because they have to tackle the target and at which speed. In the IPL 2017 the team batting second have won maximum matches and every captain showed his interest in bowl first. So in today’s match of RCB vs RPS of IPL 2017, both the captain will look forward to bowl first.
RCB vs RPS Match Prediction: who will win?
If we look onto the previous performance Rising Pune Supergiants looking good but we all know that RCB have big names in their squad which can change the game at any moment. So if we have to predict the winner of RCB vs RPS match than we will go with the Royal Challengers Bangalore. What you think which team will win the match today ?
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