Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will be locking horns with the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCN) in the 31st match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 at the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai. Both teams are coming off a victory in their previous game and have enjoyed their campaign so far in IPL 2022 with both having won 4 games in each in the tournament so far.
Lucknow had a terrific outing against Mumbai Indians (MI) in their previous encounter wherein they ticked most of the boxes as they won the match by 18 runs. They are currently at second place in the points table with eight points from six games. On the other hand, the addition of Dinesh Karthik has proved to be a blessing for the RCB and he has been producing innings of the highest caliber.
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Bangalore has been having a terrific bowling line-up with Glenn Maxwell giving them four overs on most days and this might well be the season for them to go all the way. In their last game against Delhi Capitals (DC), RCB registered a dominating win by 16 runs owing to a brilliant fifty from Karthik. They are currently at third place in the points table with eight points from six games as well.
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
While Dinesh Karthik has been scoring at the brisk pace of 248.33, he has been struggling against spin. His strike rate is 141.17 against slower bowlers, which dips to 75 against wrist spin, with Karthik having managed to score just 12 off 16. Rajasthan Royals held back an over from Yuzvendra Chahal while Delhi Capitals did the same with Kuldeep Yadav, whose final over was kept until the final over of the innings. LSG will be having the option of Ravi Bishnoi.
Probable XI: KL Rahul (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Manish Pandey, Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Jason Holder, Dushmantha Chameera, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
LSG has been using the spinners pretty well between the overs 7and 15. They have bowled as many as 37 overs of spin in this stage, more than any other team, maintained an economy rate of 6.08 and scalped 10 wickets as well in the middle overs. However, RCB has Maxwell, who has scored 62 runs off 28 deliveries in his three matches so far and could be the answer for his team to negate LSG’s spin threat.
Probable XI: Faf du Plessis (c), Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Suyash Prabhudessai, Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Josh Hazlewood, Mohammed Siraj
Fantasy XI suggestion 1:
Dinesh Karthik, Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (c), Virat Kohli, Manish Pandey, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell (vc), Shahbaz Ahmed, Josh Hazlewood, Avesh Khan, Mohammad Siraj
Fantasy XI suggestion 2:
KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (vc), Manish Pandey, Faf du Plessis (c), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Glenn Maxwell, Jason Holder, Josh Hazlewood, Avesh Khan, Wanindu Hasaranga
