Royal Challengers Bengaluru versus the Punjab Kings Playing 11, IPL 2024: On Monday, at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, the sixth game of the Indian Premier League 2024 season will take place between Faf du Plessis’ RCB and Shikhar Dhawan’s PBKS.
On Saturday, PBKS defeated Delhi Capitals by four wickets while RCB lost their inaugural game by six wickets to Chennai Super Kings. The management of the squad would have to make some early adjustments to its lineup following RCB’s surrender to CSK in Chennai. The batting-friendly wickets in Bengaluru mean that PBKS will mostly play with the same lineup that they used in Mullanpur against Delhi.
Here is the RCB vs PBKS playing XI prediction
Joseph out
Against CSK in Chennai, West Indies seamer Alzarri Joseph scored 38 runs in 3.4 overs during the first game. Joseph’s unimpressive performance is expected to make room for Lockie Ferguson and Reece Topley in the starting lineup. Ferguson may factor into the equation on Monday due to his superior speed.
PBKS to remain unchanged
After their campaign got off to a great start, it is improbable that PBKS would want to make too many changes in a short period of time. Given the quality of the offer, PBKS might choose to select an Impact Player instead of Shashank Singh and instead start the hard-hitting Prabhsimran Singh in the XI.
RCB predicted XI vs PBKS : Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat (wk), Karn Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj
Impact Player subs: Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Manoj Bhandage, Suyash Prabhudessai, Yash Dayal.
PBKS predicted XI vs RCB: Shikhar Dhawan (c), Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Shashank Singh, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh.
Impact Player subs: Rilee Rossouw, Prabhsimran Singh, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Sikandar Raza, Chris Woakes.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru squad : Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik, Saurav Chauhan, Anuj Rawat, Faf du Plessis (c), Yash Dayal, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Reece Topley, Swapnil Singh, Karn Sharma, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Mohammed Siraj, Alzarri Joseph, Lockie Ferguson, Mayank Dagar, Suyash Prabhudessai, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Will Jacks, Cameron Green, Tom Curran, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Rajat Patidar.
Punjab Kings squad : Shikhar Dhawan (c), Jonny Bairstow, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Prabhsimran Singh, Rilee Rossouw, Jitesh Sharma, Sam Curran, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Shashank Singh, Shivam Singh, Sikandar Raza, Atharva Taide, Chris Woakes, Arshdeep Singh, Rahul Chahar, Nathan Ellis, Harpreet Brar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Prince Choudhary, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan.