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IPL Live 2023: RCB vs GT Live Scores & Commentary | Bangalore vs Gujarat Live Scores & Commentary
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Preview: Twenty four days after their last home game, RCB returned to a slightly different Bengaluru on Saturday evening. Late afternoon showers brought the mercury down and delayed the start of practice. One street away, the winds of change blew over the secretariat as the state welcomed a new government. Faf du Plessis and his team, however, remain very much entrenched in a mid-table jostle, just as they had been on April 26 when they missed a chance to break into playoff positions.
A place in the final-four in this hotly-contested season still remains in their grasp. A home win on Sunday will keep them ahead of Rajasthan Royals. Then there's the advantage of playing last to deal with any potential NRR situation that might arise with a big Mumbai Indians victory earlier on the same day.
Sounds fairly straightforward? Now throw in league leaders, the already-qualified defending champions Gujarat Titans into the mix along with their very impressive away form (5 wins out of 6), top it up with some rain forecast and the plot would appear to thicken. The M. Chinnaswamy Stadium has unequivocally backed the home team but the dynamics of the T20 game here has meant that it's never been a banker of two points. And so it has proved this season with RCB winning three and losing an equal number here heading into the final league game of the season. They've also lost three of the four night games they've played here.
All of which would suggest that they have quite the task on their hands. And it showed in the intensity of their pre-match practice. When the weather cleared and the covers were peeled off the square, Virat Kohli, fresh off his sixth IPL hundred from two nights ago, batted longer than any of his teammates in the nets.
After being bowled attempting a reverse sweep off Karn Sharma and then trapped LBW by Shahbaz Ahmed, he redoubled his efforts against spin and vacated the nets only after finishing his rather scratchy session with the reassuring thud of the ball hitting empty chairs in the stands. He and the rest of his teammates now have the task of playing their biggest hits against a pair of bowlers (Shami and Rashid) with 23 wickets each. For the prize at the end of that could be a fourth straight final-four appearance, unprecedented in the franchise's history.
Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Michael Bracewell, Anuj Rawat(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Dinesh Karthik, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Himanshu Sharma, Suyash Prabhudessai, Kedar Jadhav, Siddarth Kaul, Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Hazlewood, Finn Allen, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav
Gujarat Titans Squad: Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Sai Sudharsan, Hardik Pandya(c), David Miller, Dasun Shanaka, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohit Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, Yash Dayal, Srikar Bharat, Vijay Shankar, Darshan Nalkande, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Shivam Mavi, Matthew Wade, Alzarri Joseph, Abhinav Manohar, Odean Smith, Jayant Yadav, Pradeep Sangwan, Urvil Patel
Score card: crex.live
