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All eyes can be on Virat Kohli as he’ll play his first match for RCB with out the captaincy accountability after 9 years. Both groups have accomplished some critical enterprise within the IPL 2022 mega public sale to re-enforce their groups. Punjab can be with out Kagiso Rabada of their opening match, whereas RCB will miss the providers of their star all-rounder Glenn Maxwell and pacers Josh Hazlewood and Jason Behrendorff.

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Maxwell is away for his marriage whereas Hazlewood is in Pakistan with the Test aspect and can miss three matches no less than, so is pacer Behrendorff.

But RCB nonetheless have some good choices in gamers like Sherfane Rutherford, Finn Allen and many others. Quite a lot of focus can be on Sri Lankan all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga and Dinesh Karthik, representing the crew for the second time.

On the opposite hand, the Kings will miss the providers of Jonny Bairstow, who’s within the West Indies with the England Test aspect of their first sport, and likewise Kagiso Rabada as he has simply completed his ODI engagement for South Africa towards Bangladesh.

In the absence of Rabada their bowling assault appears fairly skinny and they might hope that back-up gamers ship the products towards a powerful RCB batting unit.

There may even be a number of concentrate on the explosive Shahrukh Khan who was purchased again within the public sale for a whopping Rs 9 crore for his glorious season on the home cricket throughout codecs.

Teams:

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Faf du Plessis, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik, Josh Hazlewood, Shahbaz Ahmed, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Sherfane Rutherford, Jason Behrendorff, Suyash Prabhudesai, Chama Milind, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karn Sharma, David Willey, Luvnith Sisodia, Siddharth Kaul.

Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Jonny Bairstow, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Brar, Shahrukh Khan, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Ishan Porel, Liam Livingstone, Odean Smith, Sandeep Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Prerak Mankad, Vaibhav Arora, Writtick Chatterjee, Baltej Dhanda, Ansh Patel, Nathan Ellis, Atharva Taide, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Benny Howell.

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