RCB vs PBKS: Match Preview – IPL 2022 Match 60, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Punjab Kings

Updated - 13 May 2022, 04:17 PM

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Punjab Kings Match Preview, IPL 2022, Match 60, RCB vs PBKS
RCB vs PBKS: Match Preview.

RCB vs PBKS: Match Preview – IPL 2022 Match 60, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Punjab Kings. Royal Challenges Bangalore and Punjab Kings will clash with each other in their next match of IPL 2022. The RCB vs PBKS encounter takes place on May 13 (Friday) at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.

RCB and PBKS earlier played a match against each other during the start of the tournament. In that match, PBKS defeated RCB by 5 wickets. Batting first, RCB posted a 205-2 with Faf du Plessis hitting 88 and Virat Kohli scoring 41. Later, PBKS chased down the target in 19 overs, thanks to 43 each by Shikhar Dhawan and Bhanuka Rajapaksa.

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Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (Credits: IPL)

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RCB won their previous match against SRH. RCB posted 192-3 batting first as Faf du Plessis shattered a marvelous 73-run knock. Rajat Patidar also scored crucial 48 runs. Later, Rahul Tripathi scored 58 for SRH but they were eventually bowled out for 125, losing the match by 67 runs. Wanindu Hasranaga bagged a 5-wicket haul.

Wanindu Hasaranga
Wanindu Hasaranga. Image: BCCI

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Punjab Kings lost their previous game against Rajasthan Royals. Batting first, RR posted 189-5 with a 56-run knock by Jonny Bairstow and 38 by Jitesh Sharma. Later, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 68 runs for the RR while Devdutt Padikkal and Shimron Hetmyer scored 31 runs each. RR won the match by 6 wickets in the end.

Yashasvi Jaiswal. Photo- IPL
Yashasvi Jaiswal. Photo- IPL

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In head-to-head encounters, RCB and PBKS have played 29 matches. RCB has won 13 of them while PBKS has won 16. In the last 5 matches, PBKS has defeated RCB 4 times while RCB won only once. Both the teams will play for the first time at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.

RCB vs PBKS: Match Preview – IPL 2022 Match 60, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Punjab Kings

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Royal Challengers Bangalore, RCB, Harshal Patel
Royal Challengers Bangalore. (Photo: IPL)

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Royal Challengers Bangalore is led by Faf du Plessis in the tournament. The team has played 12 games so far in IPL 2022, winning 7 and losing 5. RCB has 12 points in their kitty and a net run rate of -0.115.

Faf du Plessis is the top run-getter for the team with 389 runs in 12 matches. Dinesh Karthik follows him with 274 runs in 12 games. Wanindu Hasaranga is the top wicket-taker for RCB with 21 wickets in 12 games. Harshal Patel is next with 14 wickets in 11 matches.

Faf du Plessis. Photo-IPL
Faf du Plessis. Photo-IPL

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RCB Squad: Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Faf du Plessis, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Shahbaz Ahamad, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Sherfane Rutherford, Jason Behrendorff, Suyash Prabhudessai, Chama Milind, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul,  Rajat Patidar, David Willey.

Punjab Kings

Mayank Agarwal. Photo-IPL
Mayank Agarwal. Photo-IPL

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Punjab Kings is led by Mayank Agarwal in IPL 2022. The team has played 11 games so far, winning 5 and losing 6. PBKS has 10 points and a net run rate of -0.231.

Shikhar Dhawan is the top run-getter for the team with 381 runs in 11 matches. Liam Livingstone is next with 315 runs. Kagiso Rabada is the top wicket-taker for PBKS with 18 wickets in 10 games. Rahul Chahar follows him with 12 wickets.

Shikhar Dhawan. Photo- IPL
Shikhar Dhawan. Photo- IPL

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PBKS Squad: Mayank Agarwal, Arshdeep Singh, Shikhar Dhawan, Kagiso Rabada, Jonny Bairstow, Rahul Chahar, Shahrukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Ishan Porel, Liam Livingstone, Odean Smith, Sandeep Sharma, Raj Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Prerak Mankad, Vaibhav Arora, Writtick Chatterjee, Baltej Dhanda, Ansh Patel, Nathan Ellis, Atharva Taide, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Benny Howell.

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