Something to pounder about
The #RCB vs #CSK game has attracted a lot of attention and seems to be a box office stuff. But mind you neither RCB has any Karnataka player, nor CSK has any TN player, in their eleven. Well, that’s franchise cricket for you #DoddaMathu #CricketTwitter #IPL2022
Pitch report
Graeme Swann with the pitch report and conditions: “Because it was played on last night and has had an extra day of sunshine, the pitch is very, very dry. Already a little bit dusty. This is going to spin. For the seam bowlers, there’s not a great deal on this pitch. Seamers – avoid digging in, it’s just not going to work for you. Batting first, if they can get 170-180, that’s very defendable. The ground staff are treating the outfield again, so dew won’t be as big a problem as it has been earlier on in the IPL.”
Pre-match talk
Stephen Fleming: “There can be small margins, it takes one or two good performances, you get a little bit of belief and a bit of evidence that you’re an okay side in the way you go. But at the moment, we look a long way away from that”
Squads:
Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad: Faf du Plessis(c), Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik(w), Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, David Willey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Akash Deep, Siddarth Kaul, Mohammed Siraj, Karn Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Jason Behrendorff, Chama V Milind, Rajat Patidar, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Suyash Prabhudessai, Sherfane Rutherford, Aneeshwar Gautam
Chennai Super Kings Squad: Robin Uthappa, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja(c), MS Dhoni(w), Dwayne Bravo, Chris Jordan, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Choudhary, Adam Milne, Dwaine Pretorius, Deepak Chahar, Devon Conway, Mitchell Santner, Tushar Deshpande, Hari Nishanth, N Jagadeesan, Subhranshu Senapati, Prashant Solanki, KM Asif, Simarjeet Singh, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Bhagath Varma