In the 10th match of IPL 2024, Bengaluru will take on Kolkata at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Friday, March 29. This will be the second match of the season for Bengaluru to win. While Kolkata will play its second match of the season.
Bengaluru faced Punjab in its last match. And won the toss and bowled. Punjab scored 176 runs at the loss of six wickets in 20 overs. Mohammed Siraj and Glenn Maxwell took 2 wickets each for Bengaluru. Virat Kohli led Bengaluru’s batting with an innings of 77 runs off 49 balls. Bengaluru achieved the target of 177 runs in 19.2 overs. Virat Kohli won the Player of the Match award for his batting performance.
Kolkata defeated Hyderabad by four runs in its first match. Hyderabad won the toss and bowled and restricted Kolkata to 208 runs by taking seven wickets in 20 overs. Andre Russell emerged as the highest run-scorer and remained unbeaten on 64 runs off 25 balls. Kolkata bowlers restricted Hyderabad to 204 runs at the loss of seven wickets in 20 overs. Harshit Rana took three wickets for 33 runs in four overs and Russell took two wickets for 25 runs in two overs. Andre Russell from Kolkata team won the Player of the Match award for his batting performance.
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Pitch Report :-
The surface of M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru can be fine for the batsmen. In the last five T20 matches, the average run score in the first innings has been around 198. Here the teams batting first have won three out of the last five matches. But the team winning the toss can consider bowling.
Probable playing eleven :-
Bengaluru :-
Faf du Plessis (C), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat (WK), Alzarri Joseph, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal.
Kolkata :-
Philip Salt (WK), Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (C), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy.
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