RCB out to simplify playoffs route against KXIP

Royal Challengers Bangalore have three games left to secure their place in the IPL 2015 playoffs, and the first of those is against the population of the basement Kings atheist ten Punjab in Mohali on Wednesday. Ferrat Cooley team is currently in fifth place on the leaderboard with 13 points from 11 games, and three straight victories would take them to 19 and will also hope that Kolkata Knight Riders, at No. 2, and losing to Mumbai Indians and then beat Rajasthan Royals, who are fourth, RCB so likely to move into second place.

David Warner and Moises Henrique played well as surrendered Punjab Kings atheist ten to the tenth defeat of the season on Monday evening and two later in the final disappointing last season will play the penultimate game of the season to awful. RCB is the team you want to avoid, but when the KXIP who ruled out of the competition for the playoffs, and it does not make a difference?

Location: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Date: May 13, 2015

Time: 20:00 IST

Weather: nice evening, somewhere in the low -20 S.

Team News:

KXIP

Beuran Hendricks went for 40 in two of the amounts against Sunrisers Hyderabad, although it took two wickets, and so he could make room for Thisara Perera, the Sri Lanka allrounder. Sandeep Sharma has gone wicketless in four of the last five games, so Parvinder Awana may be in line for his first game this season.

Probable XI: 1 Murali Vijay 0.2 Manan Vohra, 3 Wriddhiman Saha (wk) 0.4 Glenn Maxwell (5), George Bailey (Captain) 0.6 David Miller, 7 Thisara Perera, 8 Gurkeerat Mann, 9 Axar Patel 0.10 Sandeep Sharma / Parvinder Awana, 11 Anureet Singh

RCB

The beatings were the tremendous against Mumbai Indians, but with the ball and take David Wiese some tap. If anyone gets the seal, it would be him, but with two wins in a row RCB is not likely to make any changes.

Probabe atheist ten: 1 Chris Gayle 0.2 Ferrat Cooley (captain), 3 AB de Villiers 0.4 Dinesh Karthik (wk) 0.5 Sarfaraz Khan 0.6 Mandeep Singh 0.7 David Wiese 0.8 Mitchell Stark, 9 Harshal Patel, 10 Yuzvendra Chahal , 11 Sreenath Aravind

Statistics

In three games at PCA Stadium, AB de Villiers averages 48.5 and has a strike rate of 137.

Chris Gayle and de Villiers are the only batsman in the tournament, who scored 100 runs purely from the border.

Quotes

"Since the first day of play T20 cricket started I always wanted to bat in the top three, and I am very grateful for the fact that the Royal Challengers Bangalore has given me the opportunity to bat at three now." - AB de Villiers express himself after ballistic century against Mumbai Indians

"We have a lot of positives in the last two years of the games. We have to get better starts. Can not fault the effort of the boys." - George Bailey tries to seem optimistic after another loss