IPL 2018: RCB v/s CSK- Match Preview, head-to-head, teams, details and key stats of 'South Indian Derby'

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will take on the confident Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at Bengaluru in the match 24 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018. RCB and CSK will renew their intense rivalry after two years. 

Former Indian captain MS Dhoni and current Indian captain Virat Kohli will lead their sides in what is called the 'South Indian Derby'. 

This is the biggest sports rivalry in IPL due to the issues surrounding the age-old rivalry between the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. 

MS Dhoni-led CSK lead RCB 13-7 in the overall head-to-head record. Both teams have won three games each out of the seven played at the high-scoring Chinnaswamy Stadium with one producing a no-result.

Both teams are coming off from a victory in their previous encounters. While Chennai beat Hyderabad in their last game, Bangalore would have gained a lot of confidence from their win against Delhi in the last game. Virat Kohli-captained RCB have won two out of their five matches in IPL 2018 so far while Dhoni's men have been much better than RCB in their comeback season, winning four out of the five games they have played so far. 

Match details

RCB v/s CSK: IPL 2018 match 24 

Date: April 25, 2018 (Wednesday)

Time: 2000 IST (8:00 pm)

Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

Head-to-Head

These teams have faced each other in 20 matches in Indian Premier League and once in Champions League T20. MS Dhoni-led CSK lead RCB 13-7 in the overall head-to-head record. There has been one match with no result.

Teams

RCB: Quinton de Kock (wk), Virat Kohli (c), Manan Vohra, AB de Villiers, Mandeep Singh, Colin de Grandhomme, Chris Woakes, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Sarfaraz Khan, Brendon McCullum, Parthiv Patel, Moeen Ali, Kulwant Khejroliya, Aniket Choudhary, Navdeep Saini, Murugan Ashwin, Pawan Negi, Corey Anderson, Aniruddha Joshi, Pavan Deshpande, and Tim Southee.

CSK: MS Dhoni (C & WK), Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, Sam Billings, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Deepak Chahar, Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir, Shardul Thakur, Faf du Plessis, KM Asif, Kanishk Seth, Dhruv Shorey, Murali Vijay, Mark Wood, Kshitiz Sharma, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Karn Sharma, N Jagadeesan, and David Willey.

What to look forward to in RCB v/s CSK

# Virat Kohli v/s Suresh Raina: Virat Kohli is just nine runs behind Suresh Raina to become the all-time highest run-getter in the history of IPL. Kohli has overtaken Raina in the first match of IPL 2018, but Raina regained his lead later.

# Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina has been a part all 21 matches between these two side. Raina has won four man of the match awards in RCB v/s CSK matches. 

# Chennai Super Kings' Shane Watson was part of the RCB squad till the last season. Brendon McCullum, who is currently a part of the Royal Challengers Squad, was with CSK in their last IPL season. 

# Harbhajan Singh needs three more wickets to become the third highest wicket-taker in the history of IPL. Shane Watson will become the 13th highest wicket-taker in the history of IPL if he takes one wicket on Wednesday.

# MS Dhoni needs to effect three more stumpings to surpass Robin Uthappa on the list of most IPL stumpings.