The Royal Challengers Bengaluru suffered a big blow before their 2025 IPL match against Delhi’s capital at the Arun Jaitely stadium on Sunday. The star operator of RCB and counter keeper Phil Salt missed the match due to the disease. The salt was down with fever that saw him miss the crucial match while the winner between the two teams will take first place in the 2025 IPL point table. The news of the absence of Salt was shared by Captain of the RCB Rajat Patidar after the draw. Patidar won the draw and chose to play against DC.
Salt, which was thrilled by RCB for a huge sum of RS 11.5 crosses during the auction last year, played an instrumental role in the start of the flight in the striker. In 9 games, he scored 239 points at an average of 26.56 and a typing rate of 168.31.
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While Patidar estimated that the second blow was a good decision on the surface, the captain of DC Axar Patel thought the opposite.
“It is also an advantage, but if we had won the draw, I think we would have struck only and that we use the counter in the second heats. During the last match, there was no dew but in the match against Mumbai, there was dew. They (LSG) had two foreign strikers at the top, so I wanted to do a good rhythm. Plessis) is back and the impact player that we will decide according to the situation, “said Axar.
The capitals of the hosts are placed second in the point table, just above their equally formidable rivals.
Teams:
Delhi Capitals’ Playing XI: Axar Patel (C), Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel, Karun Nair, Kl Rahul (WK), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav and Muchell Kumar.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Playing XI: Rajat Patidar (C), Virat Kohli, Jacob Bethell, Romario Shepherd, Jiteh Sharma (WK), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvnehwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood and Yash Dayal.
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