New Delhi: In IPL 2021, Royal Challengers Bangalore will face the bottom-ranked Sunrisers Hyderabad team at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. This match between the two teams will be the 52nd match of this season. Virat Kohli-led Bangalore have already qualified for the playoffs while Kane Williamson-led Hyderabad team has been knocked out of the race for the playoffs. Of course, the match between the two teams is not important for the playoffs, but as captain, the match between Williamson and Virat is going to be exciting.
Bangalore team is currently in third place with 16 points from 12 matches. At the same time, Delhi Capitals is on top with 20 points, followed by Chennai Super Kings with 18 points. After the match against Hyderabad, Bangalore has to play their next match against Delhi. If the team wins both its matches, it will get 20 points and have a chance to reach the top-2. Kohli-led Bangalore team will not want to take in-form Hyderabad lightly and can go into this match with their strong playing XI.
This is the second match between the two teams in the 14th season of IPL. Bangalore defeated Hyderabad in the first match.
Probable playing XI of both the teams:
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (capt), Devdutt Padikkal, Srikar Bharat (wk), Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers, Daniel Christian, George Garten/Wanindu Hasranga, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, Mohammad Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Kane Williamson (capt), Jason Roy, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Priyam Garg, Abhishek Sharma/Manish Pandey, Abdul Samad, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, Siddharth Kaul.
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