How Will RCB Play At Home? Ex-Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra is intrigued about how Royal Challengers Bengaluru will play their first home game of the IPL 2025.
RCB is coming home after two successive wins in their first two games. While their first win was against defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders, they thumped MS Dhoni’s CSK in the second game at a very difficult Chepauk.
How Will RCB Play At Home? Former Cricketer Is Intrigued
As RCB meets Gujarat Giants today at M Chinnaswami Stadium, Bengaluru, Chopra showed curiosity about how it will play out for the franchise on his YouTube channel
“It’s RCB’s first home game. They have reached here after winning two successive games. They beat the defending champions KKR in Kolkata and breached the Chennai fortress by beating CSK in Chepauk. However, how will they play at home?” he said as reported by Sportskeeda
As they already beat two strong teams away from home, a good run at home would help them land in the playoffs.
“They are one of the few teams whose numbers at home are not that good, but they have come after such good victories away from home, and the team is looking strong with a quality bowling lineup. If this team plays well at home, their qualification will look good. So Bengaluru must start very strongly at home,” Chopra observed.
As the Chinnaswamy Stadium supports batters, RCB’s explosive batting lineup may benefit from it. And guess what, they are in form
“The focus will once again be on their explosive batting lineup. Phil Salt will play on this ground for the first time, and such batters generally like this ground. Virat Kohli played a run-a-ball in the last match, but you might see his Virat form here as was seen at the Eden Gardens. Rajat Patidar was lucky in the last match, but he is pulling his weight in the side as a captain and as a batter,” he said.
“Devdutt Padikkal played a very nice cameo in the last match. Liam Livingstone has not fired yet. So the focus will be slightly on him. Jitesh Sharma hasn’t got too many opportunities, although he too hit a six over cover, and Tim David’s three sixes in the last over against Sam Curran took the total forward,” Chopra observed.
The RCB vs GT match will resume today (April 2) at 7: 30 PM IST and fans can watch via Star Sports and JioHotstar.
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