Dubai: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will try to increase their captain quotient and improve the performance of their respective teams by a few notches when Royal Challengers Bangalore take on defending champions Mumbai Indians in an IPL game here on Sunday.
India’s outgoing T20 captain and whoever will replace him have both suffered devastating defeats. It puts them on a slippery slope as the tournament nears the end of business.
RCB is still in the top four with 10 points from nine games, while MI is in sixth with eight points from nine games after their consecutive losses Place has slipped.
Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Sportzpics
The fact that the majority of the Indian front runners, who are currently performing below average, come from these two sides stands out like thumbs.
On the way to the world of T20 are Kohli, Rohit, Suryakumar and Yadav Ishan Kishan some of the key drummers.
Also there is Hardik Pandya, who is not chosen by Mumbai Indians as he may not be 100 percent fit to do his all-round duties, which include four overs of brisk belong to fast-middle bowling.
But when Hardik is fit and still the stocky and sloppy Saurabh Tiwary is preferred, then it seems a bit confusing, because the Baroda all-rounder is miles ahead of the Jharkhand man purely as a batsman.
Kohli showed some form on the road of his half century against CSK in Sharjah, but the overall form was scratchy and his MI counterpart wasn’t quite in his elements in the previous game against KKR either.
The worried The more exciting factor will be Surya’s lack of form, which could be due to lack of playing time after completing two tests in England. He suddenly looks a lot more rusty than usual.
It was no different for Ishan, as the trio has to fire in order to have good headroom on the same tracks, which are expected to be slower, before the T20 World Cup. </ One can only hope that their shape won't let them down when they need it most in the "desert nation".
Interestingly, both RCB and MI lost their two games on the resumption against the same opponent – KKR and CSK.
What is even more worrying were the patchy bowling efforts by both sides that saved a strange bowler.
For Mumbai it is Jasprit Bumrah who towers above the rest of the pack, while Yuzvendra Chahal with a wiry, small body bears the burden of a whole below-average bowling attack.No support for either of the other bowlers not helped their cause either.
The case of RCB is a bit trickier as they have now lost seven games at a trot in the United Arab Emirates. There were five of those defeats in the last issue.
The RCB bowling attack is a bit thin in terms of quality, as players like Harshal Patel don’t have the small change to play game after game.
In the case of Navdeep Saini, a success rate of almost « half wicket per IPL game » (17 scalps in 30 games) gives a picture of why Kohli cannot always rely on him.Wanindu Hasaranga became after just two fetched good games against a second-rate Indian team in Sri Lanka and even if you look at its ICC rankings there are enough quality players who would enforce his spell.
Hitting is more about Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal, who for put on the first 111 wicket only to find others weren’t good enough to add even 50 runs.
You have a goalkeeper in Kona Bharath who is primarily a red ball specialist. Against the CSK, Harshal Patel, who had had some sporadic experience of beating Haryana, was sent in front of him.
As always, Glenn Maxwell is the « big buy » that is mostly wasted and Tim David, who is not the man for slow tracks also hurts RCB chances.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (captain), Navdeep Saini, Glenn Maxwell, Dan Christian, Rajat Patidar, Dushmantha Chameera, Pavan Deshpande, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Sachin Baby, Wanindu Hasaranga, George Garton, Shahvenz Chahal Ahmed, Devdutt Padikkal, Kyle Jamieson, Suyash Prabhudessai, KS Bharat, Tim David, Akash Deep, AB de Villiers.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (captain) Quinton de Kock, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet Singh, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Anukul Roy, Arjun Tendulkar, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, James Neesham, Jayant Yadav, Kieron Poll, Marco Jansen, Yudhvir Singh, Adam Milne, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohsin Khan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult.
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Suspended in May due to multiple COVID-19 cases in its bio-bladder in mid-May, the 2021 IPL will resume on Sunday in the United Arab Emirates and Chahal will be one of the many players trying to reclaim his place on the national team Team.
At its best, IPL is a relentless study of the skills, temperament, and fitness of players. In times of bladder fatigue and the impending COVID threat, the test becomes irreconcilable. Add to this the upcoming World Cup, and the IPL 2021 will become real box office material.
Before the IPL resumes in the UAE in 2021, let’s take a look at RCB’s previous campaign in the tournament.
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