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The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will face Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the 42nd match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. The match will be played from 7:30 pm in Bangalore’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium. RCB has played 3 matches on its home ground this season so far and has suffered defeat in all.

Bengaluru has 10 points by winning 5 out of 8 matches. Rajasthan has only 4 points with two wins in 8 matches.

Both teams will be face to face for the second time this season. In the last match, RCB defeated RR by 9 wickets at his home ground.

Match details, 42nd match RCB vs rr date- 24 April Stadium- M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Time: Toss- 7:00 PM, Match Start- 7:30 PM

Rajasthan’s record on Bangalore’s Home Ground is better

32 matches have been played between RCB and RR in IPL history so far. In this, RCB has won 16 and RR has won 14 matches. While 2 matches should also be inconclusive. 9 matches have been played between the two teams so far at the Home Ground M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Bangalore in 3 and Rajasthan in 4 won. At the same time, the result of 2 matches could not be removed.

Kohli in fantastic form

RCB’s batter Virat Kohli team is the top scorer. He has scored 322 runs in 8 matches. During this time 4 half -centuries have been scored. Apart from him, team captain Rajat Patidar and opener Phil Sold are also in good form. Rajat has scored 221 in 8 matches and Salt has scored 213 runs.

Josh Hazlewood is the top wicket of the team in bowling. He has taken 12 wickets in 8 matches. Krunal Pandya is at number two. He has taken 10 wickets in 8 matches.

Yashswi RR’s top scorer

Rajasthan’s team is struggling with poor form. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal is the highest run -scorer for the team. He has scored 307 runs in 8 matches. Vanindu is the top wicket of Hasranga team. Hasranga has taken 9 wickets in 6 matches.

Samson is difficult to play In IPL 2025, Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson is out of today’s match. According to the report, Samson is currently passing through the recovery process and is currently in Jaipur. Samson could not play in the match played against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in Jaipur on Saturday due to stomach injury. Ryan will handle the team in his place.

Pitch report The pitch of M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru will prove to be helpful for the batsmen. At the same time, spinners get some help on this pitch. So far 98 IPL matches were played in this stadium. The first batting team won 41 and the chase team won 53 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 no possibility of rain in Bengaluru on Thursday. There will be sunlight in the afternoon and there will also be a lot of heat. The temperature here will be 22 to 36 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 Royal Challengers Bangalore of both teams: 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.

Rajasthan Royals: Ryan Parag (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubham Dubey, Nitish Rana, Dhruv Jurael (wicketkeeper), Shimron Hetmyer, Vanindu Hasranga, Jofra Archer, Mahisha Thikshana, Sandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande/Akash Madhwal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi.