The 14th Match of TATA IPL 2025 will see RCB taking on GT at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday at 7.30 pm. In this match, there will be a clash between ‘King’ Virat Kohli and ‘Prince’ Shubman Gill. Royal Challengers Bangalore has made a wonderful start in IPL 2025. This team has won two consecutive matches and now it will come out in the mood to register a hat-trick of wins. The good thing is that the opportunity to take a hat-trick of wins is at the M Chinnaswamy.
RCB bowlers have performed brilliantly against strong teams like Kolkata and Chennai, but now they have the challenge of Chinnaswamy Stadium, where batsmen rule. More than 260 runs have been scored on this ground three times so far. Small boundaries and fast outfield create problems for the bowlers, but RCB trusts experienced bowlers like Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Hazlewood has given only 5.37 runs per over this season, while Bhuvneshwar’s economy rate is 6.6.
Virat Kohli will do wonders with his bat
The biggest threat for Gujarat Titans is Virat Kohli who has scored 344 runs in five innings against this team. Virat has an average of 114.7 against Gujarat. In this, he has scored three half-centuries and one century. The big reason to worry is that Virat likes the M Chinnaswamy ground a lot.
Virat has scored the most 3040 runs on this ground in IPL. Apart from this, now Virat also has a chance to do the miracle of scoring 13000 T20 runs. In his T20 career, Kohli has scored 12976 runs in 384 innings and as soon as he scores 24 runs, he will touch the figure of 13000.
Bowlers will decide the fate of the match
Batters dominate the Bengaluru ground but the match is won by the team whose bowlers perform well. Hazelwood’s bouncy balls and Bhuvneshwar’s swing can create problems for GT’s batters on this ground. Yash Dayal is also bowling reliably this season. However, RCB’s spin department seems a bit weak, where Krunal Pandya and Suyash Sharma will have a huge responsibility.
At the same time, Gujarat Titans has talented spinner in the form of Rashid Khan and there are strong spinners like Sai Kishore, who will challenge batters like Virat Kohli, Phil Salt and Devdutt Padikkal, the top order of Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Kagiso Rabada also has a good record against King Kohli and has dismissed Virat Kohli 4 times in 14 innings.