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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will face Punjab Kings (PBKS) on Friday in the 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The match will be played from 7:30 pm in Bangalore’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

This will be the first match of both teams this season. At the same time, both teams came face to face on the grounds of Bangalore last year. RCB won by 4 wickets in that match. At the same time, PBKs have not won by 8 here. The team won the last win in 2017.

RCB has won 4 matches under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar and lost 2. Shreyas Iyer -led PBks also won 4 and lost in 2.

Match details, 34th match RCB vs pbks date- 18 April Stadium- M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Time: Toss- 7:00 PM, Match Start- 7:30 PM

A match difference between head to head

33 matches have been played in IPL history between RCB and PBKS so far. In this, RCB has won 16 and Punjab won 17 matches. 13 matches have been played between the two teams so far at the Home Ground M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. Bangalore in 8 and Punjab in 5 won.

Virat scored the most runs for RCB

Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman Virat Kohli is the highest run -scorer for the team. He has scored a total of 248 runs in 6 matches. He scored 67 runs against Mumbai. Before that he scored an unbeaten 59 against Kolkata. He scored an unbeaten 62 against Rajasthan in the last match. The team’s Josh Hazlewood is at the top in the wicket Tackers. He has taken a total of 9 wickets in 6 matches.

Captain Shreyas PBKS’s top scorer

Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer is the top scorer of the team. He has scored a total of 250 runs in 6 matches. In the first match of the season, he scored an unbeaten 97 in 42 balls against Gujarat Titans. At the same time, Arshdeep Singh is the highest wicket -taking player for the team in bowling. He has taken 8 wickets in 6 matches.

Pitch report The pitch of M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru is batting-friendly. Here batsmen score fiercely. At the same time, spinners get some help on this pitch. So far 97 IPL matches have been played in this stadium. The first batting team won 41 and the chase team won 52 matches. While the results of four matches could not be removed. In such a situation, the team winning the toss will prefer to chase. The highest team score here is 287/3, which was made by Sunrisers Hyderabad against Royal Challengers Bangalore last season.

Weather condition There is a possibility of rain in Bengaluru on Friday. In the afternoon, there may be rain with cloud cover in some places with sun blooming in the afternoon. The temperature here will be 22 to 32 degrees Celsius on the match day. At the same time, the wind will run at a speed of 11 km per hour.

Possible playing-12 Punjab Kings of both teams: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Priyansh Arya, Prabhasimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Josh English, Bartlet, Marco Jansan, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rajat Patidar (Captain), Phil Soult, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Liam Livingston, Jitesh Sharma (Wickterkeeper), Krunal Pandya, Tim David, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma.