Royal Challengers Bangalore playing 11 Prediction for IPL 2021 First Match

The 14th season of the Indian Premier League will kick off on the 9th of April with the match between Rohit Sharma-led Mumbai Indians and Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore. Ahead of that let’s have a look at the eleven players of RCB who will probably make it to the team for the first match.

IPL 2021 Royal Challengers Bangalore Players List

Virat Kohli’s RCB has invested big in the auctions of 2021. They have got Glenn Maxwell and Kyle Jamieson at a colossal price. With no doubt, Devdutt Padikkal is going to open for the men in red if he becomes available for the first match as he has been tested positive for corona-virus. 

Skipper Virat Kohli will join him and which will be a destroying opening partnership between these two. Padikkal is currently in red-hot form. And there is no comparison of Virat Kohli. At number 3 RCB has got two youngsters. First is Rajat Patidar and second is Mohmmad Azharudden. Anyone from these two can make their debut in the first match.

This year RCB’s middle order is looking strong due to the addition of Glenn Maxwell. At number 4, they have AB de Villiers. Maxwell will play at 5. Dan Christian will probably play at number 6. This is how the batting department looks like.

Let’s move to bowlers now, RCB has got Washington Sundar as an all-rounder. Dan Christian also provides some bowling. They have Yuzvendra Chahal, Navdeep Saini, Mohammad Siraj and Kylie Jamieson which looks like a decent pace attack.