Hello and welcome to ABP’s live coverage of the IPL 2023 game. The last game of the league stage is set to take place between  Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Sunday.  RCB will be playing this game in front of the home crowd and is expected to seal a place in the IPL playoffs. The Bangalore-based franchise are at the fourth position on the points table and they will be playing against Gujarat Titans who are at the top of the points table. As of now, both teams have played thirteen matches this season, and RCB have sealed victory in seven games while GT have won nine.

RCB have outplayed Sunrisers Hyderabad in their previous game by 8 wickets and Gujarat also hammered Hyderabad in their last game by 34 runs.  Even if Gujarat loses this game, it won’t make any difference to them since they have already made it into the playoffs. Bangalore on the other hand, will have to give all their blood and sweat to win the game as they really need to secure their place in the playoffs.

Predicted XI’s:

RCB: Virat Kohli (c), Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Michael Bracewell, Mahipal Lomror, Anuj Rawat (wk), Wayne Parnell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj.

GT: Shubman Gill, Srikar Bharat (wk), Sai Sudarshan, Hardik Pandya (c), David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Dasun Shanaka, Mohammed Shami, Sai Kishore, Mohit Sharma.

Squads:

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Michael Bracewell, Anuj Rawat(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Dinesh Karthik, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Himanshu Sharma, Suyash Prabhudessai, Kedar Jadhav, Siddarth Kaul, Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Hazlewood, Finn Allen, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav.

Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Sai Sudharsan, Hardik Pandya(c), David Miller, Dasun Shanaka, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohit Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, Yash Dayal, Srikar Bharat, Vijay Shankar, Darshan Nalkande, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Shivam Mavi, Matthew Wade, Alzarri Joseph, Abhinav Manohar, Odean Smith, Jayant Yadav, Pradeep Sangwan, Urvil Patel.