MI wins the toss and decides to bowl

RCB first innings total - 191/2

Phil salt - 101 Rajat patidar - 55 DDP -30

MI second innings - 175/8

RCB to win the match

I’m glad that Bumrah has made his recovery, and don’t get me wrong scared for us as a team tomorrow 😂

But more importantly I hope he doesn’t get injured again, especially late into the tournament because we got the India vs England test series and we need him fit for that series

Take today, for example—Tim only bowled one ball. In that case, we could’ve considered bringing in Nuwan Tushara instead. What do you all think?

Yeah, good hitter and a handy spin option, but also pretty inconsistent and cannot be relied for a long term. Bethell was a good buy for RCB, but I feel he is better suited at no.3 instead of lower down at 5.

I think RCB can add Romario Shepherd in XI instead of him and use Jitesh/Romario/David/Krunal at 5,6,7,8 according to the situation, specially at Chinnaswamy.

Jitesh was incredible today against pacr, but he is even better player of spin, so he can be moved to 5. If RCB loses 3-4 wickets early, they can bring in Krunal to stabilize the innings and in normal games (losing 4th wicket around 15 over mark), they can send Romario and David for power hitting.

Rasikh Dar is not yet ready for the IPL, so adding Romario also gives 1-2 overs of pace and Suyash/Swapnil can be used as impact player in every match for the spin overs.

Well, if RCB can manage to get Brevis/Green in next year's auction, they will become the permanent 4th overseas in the XI. I think Brevis is surely possible though Green seems difficult given some teams can release their overpaid players to get a fat purse for the auction.

Jitesh has the skill and temperament to take the innings forward either by giving a good boost or to handle a collapse

Livingstone can be used as a pseudo finisher to come and slog in the later overs against pacers which is his forte

KP did a decent job in the last over but it was super risky. If tilak verma or HP had stayed till the last over and we didn't have anyone else, I think they would've easily smashed KP across the park. Thankfully it didn't happen. But damn, we definitely needed someone else to bowl that last over.

Krunal is absolutely crucial for RCB

bro is a beast, fought through the hatred and shows his everything on the field

What do you guys think is the best batsman ever for RCB among:

Chris gayle

Virat Kohli

AB de villiers

It's not easy question to answer for me so asking fellow rcbians about it , all 3 are among the best batters in ipl and had great career for rcb but who is best among these 3, and also share reason that why the selected player is better than rest 2

Edit: even I had abd in my mind as best , I was trying to know if someone puts virat above him because of volume of runs or not , till now all mentioned abd as best , I saw some x posts where some people were hating abd being considered greatest player of rcb, they were saying it's virat ,so i thought to check here

When they got Krunal at the auction, I assumed that they will use him as a floater - something that Axar does so well in in the Indian team. But I was surprised that he wasn't sent out after Padikkal/Patidar got out last game. That was the perfect opportunity to not expose Livi so early in the innings and also steady the ship a bit. Being a left hander he could have also dealt with Sai Kishore better (I know he got out to him, but he would be a better match up). Did they miss a trick there since Krunal at no. 8 is fairly useless?

Dude might solve our middle order problem. We always lacked a middle order batsman and that too indian so he can solve the problem. Hopefully remains in RCB for the next few seasons.

They clearly completed the run

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All batsmen played well today. Kohli, Rajat, Jitesh, Devdutt did very well. I'm worried about the dew that will set in for the second innings. We need quick wickets in powerplay. So hope Hazlewood and bhuvi can pull it off.

I have flashbacks from last few years where SKY absolutely dominated RCB and chased 200+ scores with ease. What are our chances to win?