IPL 2020 Match 31 - BLR vs KXIP Fantasy Preview

These two teams met a couple of weeks back in IPL 2020 and it turned out to be a one-sided affair as Kings XI Punjab won by nearly 100 runs but that has sadly been their only victory so far this season, with 1 win in 7 games, sitting firmly at the bottom of the IPL 2020 points table. They’re playing Royal Challengers Bangalore now in Match 31 of the tournament.

Bangalore is off to their best start in IPL with 5 wins in 7 games and they’re looking good, getting wins batting first as well as chasing. The game is being played in Sharjah where the pitch is slowing down and maybe 200+ may not be par but we can still expect good application by batsmen to get us 180+ here. Keep reading for our complete Nostragamus (Get Rs.200 FREE) fantasy preview of the BLR vs KXIP game…

Match info

Tournament: Indian Premier League 2020.
Date: 15th October 2020, 7:30pm IST.
Venue: Sharjah International Stadium, Sharjah, UAE.
Capacity: 17,000+
Series status: Match 31 of the round robin stage.

Recent form

BLR: W W L W W
KXIP: L L L L L

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Numbers

Head to head in last 5 games, Bangalore leads 4-1.
Virat Kohli scores in last 4 games – 33*, 90*, 43, 72*.
Washington Sundar strike rate so far in IPL 2020 – 4.9!

Royal Challengers Bangalore

After starting very slowly in IPL 2020, Virat Kohli is now RCB’s highest run scorer this season and he’s been dismissed only once in their last 4 games, batting at an average of 64 this season, which is why we can’t leave him out today. Similarly, AB de Villiers hasn’t had the best of tournaments yet but his last outing at Sharjah showed why we call him the best in the world, and he seemed to enjoy batting on this pitch.

With the ball, Washington Sundar has an astonishing strike rate while he could do better in the wickets column. Considering he bowls early and there are a couple of left-handers in the Punjab team, I’d like to pick Sundar in my BLR vs KXIP fantasy team today. Chris Morris is a player who has had max impact with 5 wickets in 2 games in IPL 2020 and he’s only gone at 4.5 runs per over, so we can’t leave him out.

Kings XI Punjab

There’s every chance that Chris Gayle plays today as he’s completely recovered and he is up against his former team RCB against whom he has a batting average of 50+ and a strike rate of 150+. However, he’s coming out of illness and hasn’t had game action in many months, so I’m skipping him today. Individually, KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal have been good, the tournament’s first and second highest run scorers, so they shouldn’t be dropped.

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With the ball, Ravi Bishnoi has 8 wickets in 7 games and he should be in your Nostragamus (Get Rs.200 FREE) fantasy team because in the past, we’ve seen the likes of Virat and ABD struggle against leg spinners. They have been struggling in the middle order and Glenn Maxwell is very likely to be dropped. Arshdeep Singh has impressed in his 2 games and he’s worth picking today as well, with 3 scalps in 2 games so far.

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Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad

Virat Kohli (C), Moeen Ali, Yuzvendra Chahal, AB de Villiers, Shivam Dube, Isuru Udana, Aaron Finch, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Chris Morris, Devdutt Padikkal, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar, Umesh Yadav, Adam Zampa, Pawan Negi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Parthiv Patel, Josh Philippe, Dale Steyn, Pavan Deshpande.

Kings XI Punjab Squad

KL Rahul (C), Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Glenn Maxwell, James Neesham, Sarfaraz Khan, Krishnappa Gowtham, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Shami, Mandeep Singh, Sheldon Cottrell, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Harpreet Brar, Murugan Ashwin, Chris Jordan, Chris Gayle, Karun Nair, Ishan Porel, Deepak Hooda, Arshdeep Singh, Hardus Viljoen, Jagadeesha Suchith, Tajinder Singh, Darshan Nalkande, Simran Singh.