IPL 2025 Match-42 : Bengaluru vs Rajasthan pre-match views
IPLT20 2025 42nd Match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Rajasthan Royals will be played on Thursday, April 24, 2025 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru 7:00 pm onwards.
Having world class aggressive players and three times Runner-up team in 2009, 2011 and 2016 Royal Challengers Bengaluru performed well and entertained most in past IPL editions. Once again in IPL 2025 Bengaluru team likes to perform best with winning this match. Royal Challengers (RCB) has good aggressive batsmen like : Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Phil Salt, Tim David, Jitesh Sharma and good bowlers like : Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Lungi Ngidi, Nuwan Thushara, Yash Dayal and Suyash Sharma along with good all-rounders like : Krunal Pandya, Jacob Bethell and Romario Shepherd with good Indian capped and un-capped players to make best eleven to play.
Winner of First IPL season 2008 and 3rd position holder in IPL 2024, team Rajasthan Royals is always one of the most surprising team with good performances of young talented cricketers. Good combination of Foreign and Indian capped and uncapped players made Rajasthan very strong team in previous few seasons. Every player knew their responsibility and performed accordingly. Rajasthan have very good record playing at their home venue but, other location they struggled lot. This year in 2025 IPL RR needs to play with confidence at other venues to qualify for final. Royals have good quality batsmen like : Skipper Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel and good bowlers like : Sandeep Sharma, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana, Fazalhaq Farooqi and Kwena Maphaka along with good all-rounders like : Riyan Parag, Nitish Rana and Yudhvir Charak with some Indian un-capped players to make best eleven to play.
| Head to Head | |
| Played : 31 | |
| Bengaluru won | Rajasthan won |
| 15 | 14 |
Virat Kohli, a legend himself has score most runs with more than 8000 runs and hitz most eight Centuries in IPL history. Virat Kohli is playing his 18th season of IPL for Royal Challengers Bengaluru without winning any single title, but still he is most favorite and loveable players in IPLT20 amongst all teams. IPL lovers witnessed his class of batting very well. In this season Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Phil Salt, Tim David, Krunal Pandya and Jitesh Sharma gave RCB more strong batting line-up and pace bowlers Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Lungi Ngidi and Nuwan Thushara provides Bengaluru balance bowling line-up to make RCB's dream comes true to hold IPL trophy and title first time as well.
Rajasthan Royals, having good top order batting line-up with skipper Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel and Riyan Parag, expect good runs with quality batting and Sandeep Sharma, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana and Fazalhaq Farooqi have to give commitment for best bowling performances to powered Royals for the strong contender of IPL 2025 title.
Looking at previous match data, Bengaluru won 15 matches and Rajasthan won 14 matches out of 31 matches played in IPL history. Both team holds nearly equal winning records against each other in past statistics. In this match Bengaluru has home ground advantage to do well. Just a finger cross and enjoy Bengaluru vs Rajasthan match on match day. Team that perform better than opponent team will win and earn important 2 points in points tally of IPLT20 2025.
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