Royal Challengers Bangalore will hope to get their campaign back on track when they face Lucknow Super Giants in the 15th match of the 2024 Indian Premier League. Get our latest expert RCB vs LSG match betting tips, predictions and picks below. You can start betting on the IPL 2024 by opening your account with 1xbet here.
Bangalore vs Lucknow Match Information
- Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
- Date: Tuesday, April 2
- Time: 7.30 pm local (2 pm GMT, 10 am EDT)
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What Have The Two Teams Done So Far?
Royal Challengers Bangalore haven’t had a very good start with just one win under their belt from three matches. Both those losses have come against the traditionally strong set-ups – Chennai and Kolkata – and that will make it a tad more difficult to take for the Royal Challengers.
On the other hand, Lucknow started off with a defeat at the hands of Rajasthan Royals but then almost similarly defeated Punjab Kings.
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Bangalore’s problems have typically been related to their bowling but where those compound is when their batters don’t dish out an above-par or even a par total for their bowlers while batting first.
That’s what happened in their potentially grudge game against the Gautam Gambhir-mentored Kolkata Knight Riders.
On a rather flat track, Virat Kohli (83* off 59) found no batting support and while they did squeeze their way to 182/6 in their 20 overs, it was never going to be enough on that flat pitch. Kolkata chased it down in less than 17 overs.
Lucknow will test Bangalore with their bowling but will know they need the quality of spin to get the better of the likes of Kohli and Faf du Plessis.
Instead they have an attack that consists of Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohsin Khan and the toast of the town, Mayank Yadav. Yadav cranked his pace up to 155.8 km/hr, making it the fastest for an Indian but even otherwise he kept making life difficult for his opposition batters and finished with 3/27.
Can the likes of Krunal Pandya and Ravi Bishnoi provide the necessary spin support to upset the Bangalore rhythm?
RCB vs LSG Head to Head Stats
- RCB vs LSG Head-to-head: Bangalore leads 3-1 on overall head to head.
- At the Chinnaswamy, however, there has been only one match played and Lucknow had won that.
- That came in the 2023 season in which Bangalore amassed 212/2 but 60s from Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran (19-ball 62) won Lucknow the match off the final ball.
Possible Playing XIs/XIIs
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Kohli, du Plessis, Green, Maxwell, Patidar, Karthik, Rawat, Mahipal, Dagar, Siraj, Dayal, Joseph.
Lucknow Super Giants
Rahul, de Kock, Paddikal, Pooran, Stoinis, Badoni, Krunal, Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, M Siddharth, Mohsin, Naveen.
RCB vs LSG Predictions with Latest Odds*
- Prediction 1: Lucknow Super Giants to win: 1/1 (sign up with 1xbet)
- Prediction 2: de Kock to top score for LSG: 13/5
RCB vs LSG Toss Prediction
LSG to win the toss: 10/11
RCB vs LSG Score Prediction
Total Runs Over 358.5: 5.6
*odds correct at the time of writing.
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