Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings
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49th Match:
The match between RCB and CSK is the forty-ninth meeting of the IPL 2022, which is going to be played at the Maharastra Cricket Association (MCA) International Stadium, Pune on May 4th 2022.
RCB vs CSK History:
The teams competed against each other 30 times, till date. Out of them, RCB won 9 times, whereas CSK won 20 times. 1 game was called off without a ball.
Last 5 (completed) match results of RCB against CSK are LLLLW.
RCB Home:
The teams competed 9 times at the home ground of RCB. The home team won 4 times and lost 4 times, as well. 1 game was called off without a ball.
Last 5 (completed) match results of RCB against CSK are WLLLW.
CSK Home:
The teams faced each other 8 times at the home ground of CSK. The host won 7 times. On the other hand, visitors won just once.
Last 5 (completed) match results of CSK against RCB are WWWWW.
Neutral Venue:
The teams met 13 times at the neutral venue. RCB won 4 times, whereas CSK won 9 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results of RCB against CSK LLLLW.
Teams and Ranks:
Royal Challengers Bangalore:
The team completed 239 games, out of them the team won 112 times and lost 121 times with 6 times without any result (No Result).
The team is at the sixth place (currently) in the table (IPL 2022) with 10 points (in total), victory will bring the team at the fourth place with 12 points (in total) and the defeat will place the team in any of the sixth (current) position with 10 points (in total).
Last 5 (completed) match results of RCB are LLLWW.
Chennai Super Kings:
The team completed 230 games, out of them the team won 135 times and lost 92 times with 3 times without any result (No Result).
The team is at the ninth place (currently) in the table (IPL 2022) with 6 points (in total), victory will bring the team in any of the seventh to ninth (current) place with 8 points (in total) and the defeat will place the team at the current (ninth) position with 6 points (in total).
Last 5 (completed) match results of CSK are WLWLW.
Weather:
Weather forecast for Pune shows the weather would be pretty clear throughout the match. The precipitation percentage would be between 0% to 3% as of now, so there would be extremely less chances of rain during the match. The temperature would be between 26 to 30 Celsius. The wind would be between 8 to 13 km/h. The speed of wind and the temperature would decrease gradually.
Toss and Pitch (Record of IPL):
Teams chose to bat first after winning the toss, which happened 17 times in 47 games. The selection favored the teams, as the team won 10 times and lost 7 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, when the team chose to bat first, are WLWLW.
The teams never chose to bat first after winning the toss since 2015.
On the other hand, the team chose to field first after winning the toss, won 16 times and lost 14 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, when the team chose to field first, are LLLWL.
The first batting team won the matches 24 times. Whereas, the teams, who batted second, won 23 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, while the team bat first, are WWWLW.
Over all, the teams which won the toss, won the matches 26 times and lost 21 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, while winning the toss, are LLLWL.
RCB:
The team won the toss 5 times in 8 played games. Out of them, the team won thrice and lost twice.
Last 5 (completed) match results of the RCB at the venue, while winning the toss, are LWLWW.
Last 5 (completed) match results of the RCB at the venue, while losing the toss, are LWW – -.
CSK:
The team won the toss 5 times in 10 played games. Out of them, the team won 4 times and lost once.
Last 5 (completed) match results of the CSK at the venue, while winning the toss, are WWWWL.
The team never chose to bat first after winning the toss since 2013.
Last 5 (completed) match results of the CSK at the venue, while losing the toss, are WLWLW.
The team never got a chance to chase the target after losing the toss, till date.
Score:
The lowest successful defended total was 119 runs in 2013. On the other hand, Highest successful chase is 196 runs in 2016 at the ground.
The first inning lowest total was 73 runs in 2017, and the highest total was 211 runs in 2018. For the second inning, the lowest total was 96 runs (completed innings) in 2017, whereas the highest was 198 runs in 2018.
The batting average of the first innings is 28.94 and 23.61 is for the second innings.
T20 History Between the Teams at the Venue:
Both the teams faced each other once at the venue. CSK won the encounter.
Last 5 (completed) match results of RCB against CSK at the venue are L – – – -.
Teams’ T20 History at the Venue:
RCB:
The team had a good record as the team won 5 times and lost 3 times in 8 outings.
Last 5 (completed) match results of RCB at the venue are LWLLW.
CSK:
The team had a very good record, as the team won 7 times and lost thrice in 10 outings.
Last 5 (completed) match results of CSK at the venue are WLWWW.
Tentative XI for both the Teams:
Royal Challengers Bangalore:
The team would like to go with an unchanged XI despite the defeat.
Royal Challengers Bangalore Eleven: F. du Plessis, V. Kohli, R. Patidar, G. Maxwell, S. Ahmed, M. Lomror, D. Karthik, W. Hasaranga, H. Patel, M. Siraj, J. Hazlewood
Chennai Super Kings:
The team would like to go with M. Ali, if he is fit for the play, in place of M. Santner.
Chennai Super Kings Eleven: R. Gaikwad, D. Conway, R. Uthappa, A. Rayudu, MS. Dhoni, R. Jadeja, M. Ali, D. Pretorius, M. Theekshana, S. Singh, M. Choudhary
*Notes: the result of the most recent match is at the left. *Notes: “*” means the match was tied but the match was resulted through one over eliminator. *Notes: “***” means the match was tied and the super over was also tied but the match was decided through a second super over. *Notes: Images were taken from Google Search. *Notes: https://www.dnaindia.com/cricket/report-lsg-vs-csk-rcb-skipper-faf-du-plessis-praises-dinesh-karthik-says-hes-as-cool-as-ms-dhoni-2943168