Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on Gujarat Lions in an IPL encounter later on Thursday evening at the MA Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. The match is scheduled to commence at 8pm.
The two sides have locked horns on four occasions in the past with RCB winning three of those encounters. Royal Challengers Bangalore had inflicted a humiliating defeat on Gujarat Lions in the game played out between the two sides at Rajkot earlier in the season.
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Tournament Form Guide (Last 3 matches)
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Sixth): Match washed out v Sunrisers Hyderabad, lost to Kolkata Knight Riders by 82 runs, defeated Gujarat Lions by 21 runs
Gujarat Lions (Eighth): Lost to Kings XI Punjab by 26 runs, defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 4 wickets, lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore by 21 runs
Likely XI
Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Virat Kohli (capt), 3 AB de Villiers, 4 Kedar Jadhav (wk), 5 Mandeep Singh, 6 Stuart Binny, 7 Pawan Negi, 8 Adam Milne, 9 Samuel Badree, 10 S Aravind, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
Gujarat Lions: 1 Brendon McCullum, 2 Aaron Finch, 3 Suresh Raina (capt), 4 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 5 James Faulkner, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Ishan Kishan, 8 Andrew Tye, 9 Basil Thampi, 10 Praveen Kumar, 11 Nathu Singh