The thrill of IPL 2025 continues. Mahamukabala will be played between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore on Friday. The match will be played at Chepock Stadium in Chennai. In this match, RCB’s eye will be focused on finishing the 17 -year wait of victory in Chepock. RCB has defeated CSK only once and that too in the first session of the tournament in 2008.
In the current RCB team, only star batsman Virat Kohli was part of that match and now he would like to penetrate the fort of Super Kings for the second time. However, the path of RCB will not be easy. Chennai’s team will always be ready to give a tough competition to the opposing teams in their domestic matches on the pitch of the spinners.
Chennai has veteran Ravindra Jadeja, who has been part of the team for a long time, while last year, he has associated his old player Ravichandran Ashwin with the team through the players’ auction. The team has also included Afghanistan’s left -arm wrist spinner Noor Ahmed in the team and the trio performed well against five -time champions Mumbai Indians a few days ago. All three threw 11 overs against Mumbai and took five wickets for 70 runs.
In this match too, the traditional pitch of Chennai will be seen and the RCB batsmen led by Kohli will have to improve their game to beat the experienced bowling attack. RCB’s batting order will have to be more clever instead of being completely aggressive against the three -dimensional spin invasion of Super Kings and Kohli will have to lead them.
Potential playing of both teams 11
Chennai Super Kings- Rituraj Gaikwad (captain), Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, MS Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Nathan Elis/Mathisha Pathirana and Khalil Ahmed.
RCB- Virat Kohli, Phil Soult (wicketkeeper), Rajat Patidar (Captain), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Dar Salam/ Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal.
