Coming off an embarrassing loss at the hands of Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore will aim to start rebuilding their campaign against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Tuesday.
Having already lost five matches, nearly every game from here on in is must-win for RCB.
On the other hand, the Sunrisers have had a mixed season so far – having won four matches from seven and will be keen to get back to winning ways at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Ahead of the match, we have the latest team news, start time and date, as well as how you can watch all the action from the UAE.
DATE, TIME, VENUE INFO
Date: April 25, 2017 (Tuesday)
Time: 18:30 GST, 20:00 local time (IST), 14:30 GMT
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
WHERE TO WATCH, LIVE STREAMING INFO
TV: UAE – OSN Sports Cricket HD, India – Sony Six, Sony Six HD (English), Sony Max, Sony Max HD 3 (Hindi), UK – Sky Sports
Online streaming: hotstar.com, Hotstar app (in India only)
LIVE: Sport360.com
TEAM NEWS, SQUADS, PREDICTED XIs
RCB SQUAD: Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sreenath Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Iqbal Abdullah, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi, Pawan Negi, Tymal Mills, Aniket Choudhary, Praveen Dubey, Billy Stanlake, Vishnu Vinod, Harpreet Singh
The Royal Challengers collapsed to the lowest total (49) in the history of the IPL against the Knight Riders and will need to put that behind them when they take the field for this match.
Having managed just one run in his last three innings, Mandeep Singh’s form is a huge concern for Virat Kohli’s men. Harpreet Singh was drafted into the squad as a replacement for the injured Sarfaraz Khan and the left-handed batsman could come into the playing XI.
The Bengaluru-based franchise might also want to revisit their strategy of playing with just five specialist batsmen.
PREDICTED RCB XI: Kohli (c), Gayle, de Villiers, Jadhav, Harpreet, Binny, Negi, Badree, Aravind, Mills, Chahal
SRH SQUAD: David Warner, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Moises Henriques, Mustafizur Rahman, Naman Ojha, Deepak Hooda, Ricky Bhui, Kane Williamson, Siddarth Kaul, Bipul Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Cutting, Barinder Sran, Abhimanyu Mithun, Vijay Shankar, Tanmay Agarwal, Mohammad Nabi, Ekalavya Dwivedi, Rashid Khan, Pravin Tambe, Chris Jordan, Ben Laughlin, Mohammed Siraj
The Sunrisers missed the services of Yuvraj Singh in the previous match and if he recovers from his illness, the Indian cricketer should walk back into the team.
Ashish Nehra has missed the last three matches and there is not much clarity about his availability at the moment. If he is fit, the experienced fast bowler could return to the line-up in place of Mohammed Siraj.
PREDICTED SRH XI: Warner (c), Dhawan, Williamson, Yuvraj, Henriques, Hooda, Ojha (wk), Rashid, Bhuvneshwar, Kaul, Nehra
FORM
(Last five matches – with latest match first)
RCB: L W L L L
SRH: L W W L L
MATCH PREDICTION
The Sunrisers seem to have a much more balanced squad and should win this encounter.