Delhi: The 37th match between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Punjab Kings (PBKs) is to be played on 20 April 2025 at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in the Indian Premier League 18th season (IPL 2025). This season, when both the teams faced in Chinnaswamy, Punjab Kings won by 5 wickets, where RCB is going to get a tough competition once again in this match. If seen at this time, Punjab Kings team is second in the points table by taking 10 points with 5 wins in seven. The same RCB is at number four in the points table by winning four out of seven matches. Let us know the pitch report for this match and the possible playing XI of both teams.
Extremely balanced Is Punjab Kings of Team
This season, under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, Punjab Kings are doing very well forgetting their last IPL season. The team has a good batsman in which captain Shreyas is running in the best form. This time the depth of batting is also seen in the Punjab Kings team. The team has strong batsmen like Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Shashank Singh and Nehal Badhera who have the ability to destroy any opposition bowler. Apart from these batsmen, the best openers like Prabh Simran Singh and Josh English are also part of the team. However, the biggest challenge of this team can be a lack of a reliable opener. If you talk about bowling, Pesar is showing good for pacemen teams like Arshdeep Singh and Marco Yansenon and the best game is seen in the death over. The kind of storm that Yuzvendra Chahal created against Kolkata Knight Riders, now he has also returned to his farm which will have great hope against RCB. This time Punjab Kings are seen with a strong and balanced team.
RCB Too Is Strong Contenders
This season RCB is showing the best game under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar where the bowling and batting attack of the team is doing wonders in every match. The team has an opening combination like Virat Kohli and Phil Salat. In the last match against Rajasthan Royals, both these players had done half -centuries. The same Devdutt Padikkal is also seen in the amazing form at this time. In the middle order, the team is getting full support of Leium Livingstone and Jitesh Sharma with captain Rajat Patidar. At the same time, the trio of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal and Krunal Pandya is rocking the bowling.
pitch Report
The pitch of this stadium is helpful for both bowlers and batsmen. However, the batsman gets a little more help. On this pitch, the ball comes well on the bat. Fast bowlers get more help from this pitch than spinner. Spinners also prove to be quite economical here. Overall, it proves to be a great pitch to play cricket. So far, there have been only three matches in this stadium. So it is difficult to guess how the pitch will behave, but in the last three matches it has been very low scoring surface.
Head-to-head record
In the IPL, 34 matches have been played between the two teams so far, out of which RCB has won 16 times, Punjab Kings have won 18 times.
Head-to-head record | Description |
Match played | 34 |
Won by RCB | 16 |
Won by Punjab Kings | 18 |
Tie (tied) | 0 |
No result (no result) | 0 |
Match played for the first time | 4 May 2008 |
Most of the most recent match | 18 April 2025 |
Match details
Match | Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings |
Site | Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium |
Date and time | 20 April 3:30 pm |
Live broadcast and streaming details | Star Sports and Jio Hotstar |
Both Teams of potential Playing-11
Punjab kings | Royal Challengers Bangalore |
Priyansh Arya | Phil Salt |
Shreyas Iyer (Captain) | Virat Kohli |
Nehal Vadhera | Devdutt Padikkal |
Josh English (wicket keeper) | Silver (Captain) |
Marcus Stoinis | Jitesh Sharma (wicket keeper) |
Shashank Singh | Krunal Pandya |
Marco Yansen | Liam Livingstone |
Yuzvendra Chahal | Tim david |
Lucky Ferguson | Bhuvneshwar Kumar |
Arshdeep Singh | Josh Hazlewood |
Priyansh Arya | Mukesh Kumar |
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