Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will take on defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) in their third match of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at Dubai International Stadium in Dubai on September 28.
Royal Challengers Bangalore who won their first match, suffered a big 97 runs loss at the hands of Kings XI Punjab in the second match and will look to get back to winning ways in this match. Captain Virat Kohli who has failed in first two matches has to step up and the likes of Aaron Finch and AB de Villiers too have to score big runs so they can post a good total against a strong Mumbai team.
In the bowling they need changes and the out of form duo of Dale Steyn and Umesh Yadav should be replaced by Chris Morris or Mohammed Siraj and the likes of Shivam Dube and Washington Sundar can be used wisely in middle overs.
On the other hand, defending champions Mumbai Indians registered 49 runs win over Knight Riders in the last match and they will look to carry that momentum into this match and captain Rohit Sharma who scored 80 runs will look to lead from front.
Pandya brothers who have been poor in the first two matches will look to put in a better performance. In the bowling, the trio of Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult and James Pattinson have done well so far and once again they will look to have a good outing.
All the major stats and facts ahead of the tenth match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians in Dubai :
Head to Head in IPL -
Matches - 25
Royal Challengers Bangalore won - 9
Mumbai Indians won - 16
0 - Number of wickets Royal Challengers Bangalore's bowlers have take in the power play this IPL season.
7 - Mumbai Indians have won 7 of their last 8 matches against Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL.
16 - Jasprit Bumrah has taken 16 wickets at an average of 23.87 in 13 IPL matches against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
100 - Dale Steyn needs 3 more wickets to complete 100 wickets in Indian Premier League.
150 - Umesh Yadav needs 2 more wickets to complete 150 wickets in T20 format.
5000 - Rohit Sharma needs 10 more runs to become the third batsman to achieve the milestone of 5000 IPL runs after Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina.
9000 - Virat Kohli needs 85 more runs to become the first Indian batsman to score 9000 runs in T20 cricket.
