Royal Challengers Bangalore would look to break their losing streak and bring their campaign back on track when they take on bottom-placed Deccan Chargers in their Indian Premier League clash, here tomorrow.
The race to seal one of the places in the play-offs has started and every win or loss would a count a lot from here.
Bangalore are placed sixth with nine points, two points adrift of fourth-placed Chennai Super Kings.
In their previous two outings, the hosts were hammered by Kolkata Knight Riders by 47 runs and then Kings XI Punjab won a tight match against them by four wickets.
Actually Punjab were going great guns in their chase and only three freak run-outs had brought Bangalore back in the match.
A win tomorrow would serve them well as they face formidable teams ahead -- table toppers Delhi Daredevil and Mumbai Indians twice a week's time.
Team Bangalore's bowling has been a concern as their skipper Daniel Vettori has not made much of an impact while India seamers Zaheer Khan and Vinay Kumar have also been patchy.
Batting too has struggled as apart from big-hitting Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, Sourabh Tiwary and Mayank Agarwal have not pulled their weight.
They may think of accommodate Muttaiah Muralitharan but since Vettori can only pick four overseas players, it remains to be seen who they drop, if at all they recall the wily Sri Lankan.
It's been unfortunate for RCB since Muralitharan has scalped eight wickets in four matches at an impressive average of (14.00) and economy (7.00) rate compared to Vettori's five in 10 matches played so far.
Gayle and de Villiers have been terrific so far and in that case either Tilkkaratne Dilshan or Andrew McDonald would have to make way for Muralitharan.
