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Royal Challengers Bangalore will face Delhi Daredevils on Saturday at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.
Currently languishing at the bottom of the Indian Premier League (IPL) table, both Delhi Daredevils (DD) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will try to better their score.
Both teams have struggled to get going this season with just one win apiece from the four games each have played so far.
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With just two points, the Gautam Gambhir-led Delhi side is at the eighth place in the points table. The RCB have the same number of points but sit a place above Delhi with a slightly better net run-rate.
Ahead of the clash, here is everything you need to know:
Date: The 19th match of IPL between RCB and DD will be played on Saturday, 21 April 2018.
Venue: The 19th match of the 11th season of the cash-rich league will be played at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.
Telecast: DD vs RCB match will be telecast by the Star Network.
Time: The live broadcast of DD vs RCB match will begin at 8 pm IST.
Live streaming: DD vs RCB match will be streamed live on Hotstar.
The squads:
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (captain), AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Colin de Grandhomme, Moeen Ali, Quinton de Kock, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Manan Vohra, Kulwant Khejroliya, Aniket Choudhary, Navdeep Saini, Murugan Ashwin, Mandeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Mohammed Siraj, Parthiv Patel, Aniruddha Joshi, Pavan Deshpande, Tim Southee, Corey Anderson
Delhi Daredevils: Shreyas Iyer, Chris Morris, Rishabh Pant, Glenn Maxwell, Gautam Gambhir (captain), Jason Roy, Colin Munro, Mohammed Shami, Amit Mishra, Prithvi Shaw, Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Daniel Christian, Jayant Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Trent Boult, Manjot Kalra, Abhishek Sharma, Sandeep Lamichhane, Naman Ojha, Sayan Ghosh, Liam Plunkett
-With IANS inputs.
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