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Royal Challengers Bangalore will go head to head with the 5-time champion Mumbai Indians in the 18th match of IPL 2022.
The match will be telecast live on Star Sports Network and Disney+hotstar.
RCB has a good start to the IPL 2022 as they have registered 2 wins in 3 games and are currently standing at the 6th position on the points table.
On the other hand, Mumbai Indians have surprisingly lost all of their first 3 matches so far and with no points, they are placed at the 9th position on the points table.
In their previous game, RCB defeated Rajasthan Royals by 4 wickets.
Due to an outstanding hundred from Jos Buttler, Rajasthan set a target of 170 runs on the board.
Royal Challengers Bangalore chased down the total with 5 balls left due to excellent knocks from Shahbaz Ahmed (45 runs) and Dinesh Karthik, who smacked an unbeaten and match-winning knock of 44 to get his side over the line.
Mumbai Indians lost their previous game against Kolkata Knight Riders.
Mumbai Indians scored 161-4 from their 20 overs due to a brilliant half-century from Suryakumar Yadav.
Mumbai Indians were ahead in the game for most of the time during the chase because KKR kept losing wickets.
Kolkata was 5 down on 101 runs and from nowhere Pat Cummins delivered an unbelievable batting display to win the game for his side with 4 overs left.
Venkatesh Iyer also scored an unbeaten fifty.
Cummins smashed the joint-fastest fifty (14 balls) of IPL and remained unbeaten on 56 runs from just 15 balls.
Match details
Teams: RCB vs MI
Venue: Maharashtra Cricket Stadium, Pune
Date: 9th April, Saturday
Time: 7:30 pm IST
Head to head record
Let’s take a look at the head-to-head record between RCB and MI that will help us to figure out which side is ahead of the other
Total Matches Played: 31
Mumbai Indians won: 19
Royal Challengers Bangalore won: 12
Tie/no results: 0
MI Probable Playing 11
Ishan Kishan (wk), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Dewald Brevis, Kieron Pollard, Daniel Sams, Murugan Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Tymal Mills, Basil Thampi
RCB Probable Playing 11
Faf du Plessis, Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga, David Willey, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep
Jeetbig Star bowler of the match
Jasprit Bumrah is bowling brilliantly this season and is amongst the economical bowlers of the tournament. He will be the star bowler of the match.
Jeetbig Star batsman of the match
After missing the first two games due to injury, Suryakumar Yadav came back with a brilliant half-century in the previous game and he is expected to be the star performer with the bat today.
Jeetbig star Wicketkeeper of the match
Ishan Kishan has scored two half-centuries so far in the tournament and he has been exceptional with the wicket keeping gloves behind the stumps.
He will be the star wicketkeeper of the match.
Jeetbig star All-rounder of the match
Wannindu Hasaranga has picked up 4 wickets in the previous match and he is a very handy middle-order batsman.
That’s why he is expected to perform with both bat and ball for RCB against Mumbai.
Who will win?
Both of these two sides are quite strong but obviously, the confidence of Mumbai Indians will be quite low as compared to Royal Challengers Bangalore.
RCB will be hoping to win this match and gain crucial points.
Mumbai Indians desperately need to win this match because the competition is very tough this season and this performance doesn’t suit the 5-time champion side.
Hence, our prediction for match 18 is that Mumbai Indians will beat Royal Challengers Bangalore.
