The Royal Challengers Bangalore takes on Kings XI Punjab and they will be looking for their third win of the season, although they are already out of playoff contention whereas Kings XI Punjab, who are coming off after four days need four wins from remaining five games in order to book their spot in the knockout stages.

Head to Head

The two teams met in Indore earlier this season where Hashim Amla’s unbeaten 58 and Glenn Maxwell’s unbeaten 43 successfully chased down the 148 target quite comfortably, KXIP won by 8 wickets with 5.3 overs to spare.

In terms of overall, they faced each other 19 time and Punjab holds the upper hand with 11 wins. In Bengaluru RCB and KXIP played eight times and it`s four each.

Quick Facts

The T20 specialist Chris Gayle may have been a failure in the 2017 edition of the Indian Premier League but he has a fabulous record and if he gets a chance to play today then we can expect another bombastic inning.

The RCB horrid batting performance this season is very well documented and while trying to tweak things around they have fielded six different opening combination so far including three different pairs in their last three matches. In terms KXIP, their opening batsmen have scored only one half-century in 5 of their 9 matches this season.

Looking to end the #ipl off with a few good results! Hopefully we can give the fans something to cheer about tonight at the Chinnaswamy.

— AB de Villiers (@ABdeVilliers17) May 5, 2017

Likely XIs

Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Virat Kohli (capt), 2 Chris Gayle, 3 AB de Villiers, 4 Kedar Jadhav (wk), 5 Shane Watson, 6 Mandeep Singh, 7 Stuart Binny, 8 Pawan Negi, 9 Adam Milne/Samuel Badree, 10 S Aravind, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal

Kings XI Punjab: 1 Hashim Amla, 2 Martin Guptill, 3 Shaun Marsh, 4 Manan Vohra, 5 Glenn Maxwell (capt), 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 Axar Patel, 8 Sandeep Sharma, 9 Mohit Sharma, 10 Varun Aaron, 11 T Natarajan

 What Next

For Royal Challengers Bangalore: Return Fixture (Home) Vs. Kolkata Knight Riders, May 7 (4 pm)

For Kings XI Punjab: Return Fixture (Home) Vs. Gujarat Lions, May 7 (Mohali, 8 pm)

Source: NYOOOZ DESK - IPL