Gujarat Lions take on Royal Challengers Bangalore in what looks to be a match of redemption for both the teams if they want to make the cut to the playoffs. There are already question marks over Chris Gayle will start or not or if Shane Watson makes to to the line up. The big news from the Lions camp is that Irfan Pathan could be in the starting line-up as he has been picked last-minute to fill in Dwayne Bravo’s spot, who is missing out this edition of the IPL.
The teams have met four times, with Royal Challengers winning thrice and losing once. They have batted first in three of the four matches, posting totals of 180, 248 and 213.
Lat game was washed out and today, according to the Meteorological Centre’s forecast for Thursday, Bengaluru can expect “one or two spells of rain or thundershowers”.
Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers have outstanding records against Lions. Kohli averages 91.00 and has a strike-rate of 160.58 against them, while de Villiers averages 228.00 and scores at 198.26.
Where to watch RCB v GL live telecast?
The live telecast of RCB v GL clash will be broadcasted on Sony Six and Sony Max.
Where to watch RCB v GL live streaming?
The live streaming of the IPL 2017 Match 20 will be available on Hotstar.
Likely squads:
Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Chris Gayle/Travis Head/Shane Watson, 2 Virat Kohli (capt), 3 AB de Villiers, 4 Kedar Jadhav (wk), 5 Mandeep Singh, 6 Stuart Binny, 7 Pawan Negi, 8 Tymal Mills/Adam Milne, 9 Samuel Badree, 10 S Aravind, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
Gujarat Lions: 1 Brendon McCullum, 2 Aaron Finch/Jason Roy/James Faulkner, 3 Suresh Raina (capt), 4 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 5 Dwayne Smith, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Ishan Kishan, 8 Andrew Tye, 9 Basil Thampi, 10 Shubham Agarwal/Praveen Kumar/Dhawal Kulkarni, 11 Nathu Singh
Kohli seems to love teams in orange! Check out his stats against the Gujarat Lions in just four games #PlayBold #RCBvGL pic.twitter.com/8yjWTNIpmI
— Royal Challengers (@RCBTweets) April 27, 2017
