IPL 2024: Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings – Stats Preview

Royal Challengers Bengaluru will take on Punjab Kings in the sixth match of the Indian Premier League 2024 at their home venue of M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on Monday. PBKS has got off to a winning start whereas RCB lost their opener against CSK.

When these two teams faced each other in the previous season, RCB won that game by 24 runs. Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis scored fifties in that game whereas Mohammed Siraj scalped four wickets.

Meanwhile, both teams will look to come up with a collective effort. The Chinnaswamy stadium is known to be a batting paradise and the batters of both teams will be licking their lips.

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Virat Kohli needs seven more fours to complete 650 boundaries in the IPL.

Faf du Plessis requires five more sixes to reach 150 maximums in the tournament.

Cameron Green needs 30 runs to complete the 500-run mark in the IPL. The lanky batter also needs nine fours to complete 50 fours in the tournament.

Dinesh Karthik needs another eight fours and nine sixes to reach the milestone of 450 fours and 150 maximums respectively.

PBKS captain Shikhar Dhawan needs two more sixes to complete 150 sixes in the tournament.

Sam Curran needs eight more scalps to complete 50 wickets in the IPL.

PBKS vice-captain Jitesh Sharma needs five more boundaries to complete 50 fours in the lucrative tournament.

RCB FULL SQUAD IPL 2024

Faf du Plessis (c), Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Cameron Green, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Tom Curran, Lockie Ferguson, Swapnil Singh, Saurav Chauhan.

PBKS IPL 2024 SQUAD

Wicketkeepers: Jonny Bairstow (ENG), Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma.

Batters: Shikhar Dhawan, Harpreet Bhatia, Rilee Rossouw (SA), Shashank Singh.

All-rounders: Liam Livingstone (ENG), Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran (ENG), Sikandar Raza (ZIM), Shivam Singh, Chris Woakes (ENG), Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Harshal Patel.

Bowlers: Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada (SA), Nathan Ellis (AUS), Rahul Chahar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Prince Choudhary.