On Sunday (April 2), the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will take on the Mumbai Indians (MI) in the fifth game of the IPL 2023 at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Royal Challengers finished in the fourth position last season after winning eight out of 14 games and qualified for the playoffs for the third time in a row. They made some smart moves at the mini-auction, which occurred in December last year. They shelled out INR 1.9 crores for English pacer Reece Topley and INR 3.2 crores for Will Jacks. Jacks has been ruled out of the tournament due to a thigh injury and has been replaced by Michael Bracewell. Last season, RCB faced the Mumbai Indians once and won that game by seven wickets.
MATCH INFORMATION
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians, Match 5
Indian Premier League, 2 Apr 2023, Sun, 7:30 PM IST, Bengaluru
PROBABLE PLAYING XI
Royal Challengers Bangalore
F du Plessis(C), Virat Kohli, SS Prabhudessai, Michael Bracewell, MK Lomror, GJ Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik, Mohammed Siraj, HV Patel, RJW Topley
BENCH : Anuj Rawat, RM Patidar, Finn Allen, Avinash Singh, Rajan Kumar, WG Jacks, M Bhandage, W Hasaranga, R Sonu Yadav, DJ Willey, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, S Kaul, KV Sharma, Himanshu Sharma
Mumbai Indians
Rohit Sharma(C), Tilak Varma, SA Yadav, Tim David, Ramandeep Singh, H Shokeen, C Green, Ishan Kishan, K Kartikeya, Jofra Archer, JP Behrendorff
BENCH : Vishnu Vinod, Dewald Brevis, N Wadhera, T Stubbs, Piyush Chawla, SZ Mulani, AS Tendulkar, JJ Bumrah, Arshad Khan, D Jansen, JA Richardson, Raghav Goyal, Akash Mandwaal, S Sandeep Warrier
