IPL 2025: Battle of acquainted faces as RCB tackle DC | Cricket Information

BENGALURU: Due to the public sale course of, gamers within the Indian Premier League (IPL) recurrently come up in opposition to their outdated groups, some with a way of nostalgia and others with, maybe, revenge in thoughts. Regardless, little love is misplaced as they pursue IPL glory and its riches.
Mohammed Siraj, presently with Gujarat Titans, is a living proof as he made an emotional return to the M Chinnaswamy Stadium final week and did sufficient at hand Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) their first loss in three matches. Feelings will run excessive once more when unbeaten Delhi Capitals (DC) tackle RCB on Thursday.
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A number of DC gamers have a reference to RCB and their dwelling floor. There’s Faf du Plessis, who led RCB for 3 seasons till the franchise relinquished their maintain on him forward of the public sale final 12 months. The 40-year-old missed out on silverware however got here near etching his title as RCB’s most well-known captain since he led the group into two playoffs. He scored greater than 400 runs in every season, a exceptional 730 runs in 2023 being the spotlight.

Du Plessis, now deputy to Axar Patel in DC, may add a couple of extra at a floor that was his second dwelling not way back, although his health stays a priority. He sat out the earlier sport in opposition to Chennai Tremendous Kings resulting from a groin niggle.
Capitals’ assistant coach Matthew Mott was non-committal on du Plessis’s availability.
“The fantastic thing about the schedule thus far is we’ve had some actually good breaks and Faf’s had an excellent break. He’ll get assessed immediately by the physios with a view to taking part in. To the bare eye, he actually appears like he’s transferring round rather a lot higher.”
Then, there may be Australian tempo service provider Mitchell Starc, who lower his enamel within the IPL with RCB in 2014. The left-arm pacer picked up 34 wickets in two seasons earlier than a foot fracture dominated him out of the 2016 version.
KL Rahul is one other who returns to his dwelling floor with a brand new group once more this season. The fashionable batter, who missed the opening match because of the delivery of his daughter, scored a match-winning 51-ball 77 within the earlier contest in opposition to CSK. Rahul, who spent 4 seasons at RCB, was extensively purported to return dwelling on the public sale however was snapped up by DC for Rs 14 crore.
Each the groups come into the competition on the again of wins, with RCB prevailing in a tense defence of their tall complete in opposition to Mumbai Indians on the Wankhede Stadium on Monday. Whereas skipper Rajat Patidar and Virat Kohli scored essential half-centuries, the takeaways from the match have been the return to type of southpaw Devdutt Padikkal and wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma’s game-changing unbeaten 19-ball 40.
Barring leggie Suyash Sharma and tempo ace Josh Hazlewood, all the opposite bowlers conceded runs, particularly within the second half of Mumbai’s innings, however they managed to absorb the strain on the demise.
This new-look RCB have gotten rather a lot off their again. They conquered Kolkata Knight Riders, CSK, and MI in their very own dens, however got here a cropper in opposition to the Titans at dwelling. They’ll hope that loss is an aberration, because the Capitals have loads of bowling ammunition, particularly with spin duo Kuldeep Yadav and Axar of their ranks.