The 15th match of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Supergiant is scheduled to be played at RCB’s home Chinnaswamy Stadium on Tuesday, April 2. This will be RCB’s fourth match in IPL 2024 while LSG will play their third match. Bengaluru are ninth in the points table with 2 points from 3 matches and a Net Run Rate (NRR) of -0.711. Lucknow have two points from 2 matches and are at 6th position with NRR of +0.025.
Things are a bit tough for the RCB team as they have lost two matches now, RCB lost their first IPL match against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 6 wickets. Then, they beat Punjab Kings (PBKS) by 4 wickets on March 25. On March 29, RCB became the first team to lose a home game after losing by 7 wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). While LSG Lucknow lost their opening match against Rajasthan Royals, they bounced back to win the next match against PBKS by 21 runs.
RCB vs LSG Head to Head Results –
Bengaluru and Lucknow played LSG only 4 matches in IPL 2022. RCB won 3 of them and Lucknow won 1. Bengaluru’s highest score against LSG so far is 222 while Lucknow’s highest score against RCB is 213. The only time LSG won against RCB was in April 2023, when they won a close match by 1 run.
RCB vs LSG win record –
Chinnaswamy’s pitch has so far been slow for teams to bat early and has improved later in the game. The teams that won the tournament chose to bowl early to take advantage of the slow pitch conditions. Chinnaswamy doesn’t take rough patches easily, and with a maximum of just 40 overs bowling, one certainly doesn’t expect him to crack.
RCB vs LSG Weather Report –
The weather will not be very pleasant as the temperature can rise up to 35.5 degrees Celsius, but there is a slight chance of moisture on the ground and dew with humidity is expected in the last half of the game. There are no signs of rain and fans can easily enjoy the game without interruption.
RCB vs LSG Pitch Report
During RCB vs PBKS there was light grass on the field. The start of the match could be slow and two-sided. There has been a lot of T20 cricket at the venue recently and we have seen some big innings. M Chinnaswamy Stadium is considered good for batting – the average runs per wicket here is 28 and the batting average is 166 first. Here about nine runs are scored at each end.
RCB vs LSG Team Squads
Royal Challengers Bangalore Playing XI
F du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, C Green, GJ Maxwell, RM Patidar, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Anuj Rawat, MJ Dagar, Vijaykumar Vishak, LH Ferguson, Mohammed Siraj
Bench: SS Prabhudesai, S Chauhan, MK Lomror, Swapnil Singh, M Bhandage, TK Curran, WG Jack, Rajan Kumar, Alzarri Joseph, RJW Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Yash Dayal, KV Sharma, Akash Deep.
Lucknow Super Giants Possible Playing XI
KL Rahul, Q de Kock (wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Nicholas Pooran (c), MP Stoinis, KH Pandya, A Badoni, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Mayang Yadav, Manimaran Siddharth.
Bench: AJ Turner, PN Mankad, Krishnappa Gautam, Deepak Hooda, Arshin Kulkarni, Kyle Mayers, YS Thakur, Shivam Mavi, DJ Willey, Yudhvir Singh, Naveen-ul-Haq, Arshad Khan, A Mishra, Shamar Joseph, MJ Henry.