The 34th match of IPL 2025 will be played between RCB and Punjab Kings on Friday, 18 April. Punjab Kings defended the lowest score to Kolkata Knight Riders in their last match. In such a situation, the Bangalore batsmen will have to beware of the Punjab Kings bowlers. The RCB team has not been able to win the home ground in the ongoing season.
RCB batsmen had to struggle in front of Gujarat Titans’s R Sai Kishore and Kuldeep Yadav of Delhi Capitals on a slow pitch, in such a situation, Chahal and Glenn Maxwell will try to take full advantage of this weakness. Not only this, Chahal and Maxwell have been playing for RCB for a long time and are well aware of the circumstances here.
RCB needs to be careful
It is not easy for any batsman to face Chahal, who returned to form with four wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders, while Maxwell is sure to find a place in the last playing XI despite a poor performance in batting. Chahal is the master of length instead of magical balls. This leg spinner balls out of the off-stump to lure the batsmen to play long shots so that they give a catch close to the boundary line.
At the same time, they also change their speed very cleverly and if the batsmen want to hit sixes against them, then they need to make extra efforts. Maxwell is also a spinner who can become a problem for RCB.
However, RCB has good spinners as Krunal Pandya and Suyash Sharma and the team will expect better performance from them. Punjab has good fast bowlers in the form of Arshdeep Singh and Marco Yansen while RCB has experienced fast bowlers like Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
At the same time, talking about the captains of both teams, there is very little similarity between Rajat Patidar and Shreyas Iyer. But both have impressed in this tournament. Where Iyer has proved his credibility as IPL winning captain by recording a great record as a batsman. Rajat Patidar is captaining the IPL for the first time.
