The 59th match of IPL 2022 between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings will be played on Friday, 13 May 2022 at The Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. The match will start at 07:30 PM local time.

RCB had won the previous two matches continuously. They beat CSK and then they won the next match against Hyderabad with a handsome margin of 67 runs. The batting order of Bangalore which was struggling in some last matches is back to good form. They also had made some changes in the batting order and these changes are working for the team. Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis are opening the batting inning for RCB. We had seen Kohli struggling with the form in some previous months and IPL 2022 also had not been proved good for him. Bangalore had good news as Faf du Plessis is back to good form and he was the highest run-scorer in the previous match with 73 runs to his name in 50 balls with the help of eight boundaries and two huge sixes. He remained not out till the 20th over. Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, and Karthik are handling the middle batting order of RCB and all batters are also performing well. Rajat Patidar scored 48 runs and smashed four boundaries and two huge sixes while Glenn Maxwell had 33 runs to his name.

PBKS lost the previous match against Rajasthan which they could have easily won. The batting order of Punjab had been good throughout IPL 2022. Jonny Bairstow and Shikhar Dhawan are opening the batting inning for PBKS and had provided a good start in almost all matches they had played. B Rajapaksa, Mayank Agarwal, Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone, and Rishi Dhawan are taking care of the middle and lower batting order. These all batters performed well in the previous match and scored 189 runs in 20 overs. Bairstow was the most successful batter in the most recent match against RR with 56 runs to his name on 40 balls and smashed eight boundaries and one huge six during his inning. Jitesh Sharma was the other batter who put some runs on the board. He remained not out after scoring 38 runs on just 18 balls with the help of four boundaries and two huge sixes during his inning. Liam Livingstone scored 22 runs while B Rajapaksa smashed the inning of 27 runs on just 18 balls. We think that they don’t need to make any changes in the batting order for this match.

Bangalore had faced Punjab in 29 matches where RCB had won 13 matches while PBKS had won 16 matches.

Royal Challengers Bangalore had won three out of the most recent five matches they had played while Punjab Kings had won two matches out of five recently played matches.

Royal Challengers Bangalore is a strong and well-balanced team and has a strong batting and bowling department which is in good form. The batting and bowling squad of this team is much stronger at least on papers. According to today’s prediction, Royal Challengers Bangalore is the favorite team that will win this match. There are many factors that make Royal Challengers Bangalore a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• The batting order of RCB is back to the good form in IPL 2022
• The bowling department of RCB is also performing well
• RCB had been good in IPL 2022 than Punjab
• PBKS is struggling with the batting and bowling departments

Royal Challengers Bangalore is overall a strong team when we compare with Punjab Kings. They have the best players in the t20 format of cricket. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitters of the t20 format are part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today’s match for Royal Challengers Bangalore have been increased. The equation of who will win today’s cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

Royal Challengers Bangalore has a 54% chance to win this match
Punjab Kings have a 46% chance to win this match

The toss is going to play an important in the result of each and every match of IPL 2022 as we had observed in the previous matches. According to toss prediction, the team who will win the toss will elect to field first as defending had been difficult in the most recent matches of IPL.

The 60th match of IPL T20, 2022 is going to be held at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting in early overs. The track has a good amount of pace and bounce which allows the batsmen to the good cricketing shorts but this ground also has big boundaries which can be a plus point for the bowlers. A score of 190 plus seems to be a par score.

The weather forecast for Mumbai is good for this cricket match. There are almost no chances of rain in the region and we are hopeful that we will have a full match to enjoy.

Royal Challengers Bangalore
Faf du Plessis (c), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood, Virat Kohli.

Punjab Kings
Mayank Agarwal (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Rishi Dhawan, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Jonny Bairstow.

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Date: Friday, 13th May 2022
Time: 02:00 PM GMT / 07:30 PM LOCAL / 07:30 PM IST

Stadium: Brabourne Stadium
Location: Mumbai, India
Opened: 1937
Capacity: 20,000
Ends: Pavilion End, Church Gate End
Time Zone: UTC +05:30
Home to: Mumbai
Floodlights: Yes

Total matches: 8
Matches won batting first: 2
Matches won bowling first: 6
Average 1st Inns scores: 157
Average 2nd Inns scores: 147
Highest total recorded: 209/4 (20 Ov) by AUSW vs ENGW
Lowest total recorded: 96/10 (17.4 Ov) by ENGW vs AUSW
Highest score chased: 199/3 (18.4 Ov) by ENGW vs INDW
Lowest score defended: 186/5 (20 Ov) by AUSW vs INDW

Faf du Plessis (c), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Suyash Prabhudessai, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, David Willey, Karn Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Jason Behrendorff, Chama V Milind, Finn Allen, Sherfane Rutherford, Aneeshwar Gautam, Virat Kohli, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood.