Royal Challengers Bengaluru will be playing their first home match of the IPL 2025 season at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium against Gujarat Titans on Wednesday. The two teams are expected to line up as follows:
RCB Predicted Playing XI:
Batting 1st: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Liam Livingstone, Tim David, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal.
Bowling 1st: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar (c), Liam Livingstone, Tim David, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma.
Impact Player options: Rasikh Salam, Devdutt Padikkal/ Suyash Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Swastik Chhikara, Jacob Bethell.
GT Predicted Playing XI:
Batting 1st: Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler, Sherfane Rutherford, Shah Rukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, R. Sai Kishore, Arshad Khan, Mohammed Siraj, Kagiso Rabada.
Bowling 1st: Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler, Shah Rukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, R. Sai Kishore, Arshad Khan, Mohammed Siraj, Kagiso Rabada, Prasidh Krishna.
Impact Player options: Sherfane Rutherford/ Prasidh Krishna, Anuj Rawat, Ishant Sharma, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar.
In terms of Dream11 fantasy team picks, the suggested lineup includes Phil Salt and Jos Buttler as wicketkeepers, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Sai Sudharsan, and Shubman Gill as batters, Krunal Pandya as an all-rounder, and Rashid Khan, Josh Hazlewood, Mohammed Siraj, and R Sai Kishore as bowlers.
The squads for both teams include key players such as Virat Kohli and Rashid Khan for RCB, and Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler for GT. It promises to be an exciting match between these two strong teams.
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