IPL 2023: In the 5th match of IPL 2023, the team of Mumbai Indians is going to be in front of Royal Challengers Bangalore. The RCB team, which has been waiting for its first IPL title for the last 15 years, would like to start this year with a win. But a big challenge has arisen in front of RCB in the very first match. In fact, two veteran players of RCB will not be able to play in the first match against Mumbai.

1. Josh Hazlewood

Josh Hazlewood, who performed amazingly for RCB last season, is going to be out of at least 7 matches in the beginning of this season. Hazlewood took 20 wickets in just 12 matches in IPL 2022. he/she was the biggest force of bowling for RCB. But now this player will not be able to play in many matches of this season due to his/her injury. At the same time, the team is going to miss him/her even in the first match against Mumbai.

2. Rajat Patidar

There was another player for RCB who performed exceptionally well with the bat last season. This batsman played big innings in the middle order when big batsmen failed. Let us tell you that Patidar had scored an excellent century in the Eliminator match, due to which RCB’s team reached the qualifiers. Patidar had hit 333 runs in just 8 matches.

Mumbai Indians have the upper hand

A total of 30 matches have been played between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL so far, in which Mumbai has won 17 matches. At the same time, RCB has won in 13 matches. In this way Mumbai Indians have the upper hand against RCB.

Full RCB squad for IPL 2023:

Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Suyash Prabhu Desai, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, David Willey, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Manoj Bhandge, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav, Michael Bracewell

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