IPL 2025: RCB Batters Look To Rise Above Pbks’ Spin Challenge LED by Yuzvendra Chahal

Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s push for a Maiden Home Victory This Season will depend on their batters taming the canny yuzvendra chahal in the ipl match against a superimely confident punjab kings in benjabi kings in Friday. Chahal, In the Company of Off-Spinner Glennn Maxwell, will have noticed bengaluru batters’ Struggle Against Slow Bowlers R Sai Kishore (2/22, 2/22, GUJARAT TITATANS), Kuldeep (2/17) and Vipraja Nigam (2/18, both delhi capitals) here, especially once the field was spores out.

Besides, Both Chahal and Maxwell will also be armed with their familyiarity with the conditions here, courtesy the years spent at the Royal Challengers’ Dug Out.

Theoretically, RCB Camp Can Take a Slight Consolation from the Fact that they batted first against gt and dc and their spinners Took Full Advantage of a No-Deep Atmosphere.

But chahal, who returned to form with a four-health haul against kolkata knight riders, and maxwell, assuming that dull form with the bat will not happen in … From the conditions.

Chahal is a master of lengths raather than of magic balls. The leg-spinner lures with offerings wide of off-sutump and the batters need to get out to the ball for big Hits, often Resulting in Catches in the Deep.

He also Varies His Pace Quite Cleverly, and the batters need to put that extra effort if they want to hit sixess against

Maxwell too is a similar operator, relaying on control rather than big turns or dippers.

The aussie has also found some success against the right-handers in white ball formats, and that might come handy for Punjab aganst their opponents who opponents who opponents who are batting line-ris an outs of right-rights.

RCB has their set of spinners in krunal pandya and suyash sharma, giving the hosts hopes of trading some punches of their own.

The punjab outfit also has capable pace options in Arshdeep Singh and Marco Jansen, Thought not as decorated as josh hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the opposition ranks.

Captain Patidar vs Captain Shreyas

On the periphery, rajat patidar and shreyas iyer have little little in common. Iyer has proven credentials, an ipl winning captain with an excellent track record as a batter in this tournament.

Patidar, on the other hand, is a first-time captain in the IPL and does not have a glittering cv as his pbks counterpart as a batter.

But the dishimillarities end there. They have exuded a reassuring calmness while guiding the team irrespective of outcomes.

Patidar has been authoritative without

He has to be at his tactical and managerial best against a versatile opponent.

A Superb Player of Spin, Patidar will also have to take upon Himself the task of nullifying the twin threat of chahal and maxwell if the m chinnaswamy deck retains

Iyer too is one of the best players of spin Around, the best equipped in punjab line-up to tackle rcb’s krunal and suyash.

As a team, punjab will be high on confidence after their 16-r win over kkr in a recent low -scoring thriller.

But they will be well aware that rcb, which has depth in batting and bowling, will be a harder opponent to overcome.

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