Daredevils, RCB look to end disappointing season on high

The final game of the league stage will have no bearing on how the playoffs pan out, but neither team would want to bow out with a defeat

The Preview by Sreshth Shah

13-May-2017

Match facts

Delhi Daredevils v Royal Challengers Bangalore
Dehi, May 14, 2017
Start time 2000 local (1430 GMT)

Head to head

Overall: Royal Challengers have an emphatic 12-6 record over Daredevils.

This season: One of Royal Challengers' two wins this season was against Daredevils at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Kedar Jadhav's sublime 69 helped the hosts post 157, which, despite Rishabh Pant's 36-ball 57, was 15 runs too much for Daredevils.

In the news

AB de Villiers left for national duty after Royal Challengers' match against Knight Riders last Sunday, and it remains to be seen if Shane Watson, who confessed this season was his poorest at the IPL ever, returns to the XI.

Daredevils included only three overseas players in the side that beat Rising Pune Supergiant, with Shahbaz Nadeem replacing Carlos Brathwaite. Considering Nadeem's tight bowling against them - he took 1 for 21 - at Feroz Shah Kotla on Friday, chances of an unchanged XI for Daredevils are high. Australian fast bowler Ben Hilfenhaus is yet to play a game this season.

What went wrong for Daredevils this season?

0 votes

Zaheer Khan's style of captaincy

Poor use of big-hitters like Morris and Anderson

Amit Mishra not being at his best

Not enough experienced batsmen at the top

The likely XIs

Delhi Daredevils: 1 Sanju Samson, 2 Karun Nair, 3 Shreyas Iyer, 4 Rishabh Pant (wk), 5 Marlon Samuels, 6 Corey Anderson, 7 Pat Cummins, 8 Amit Mishra, 9 Zaheer Khan (capt), 10 Shahbaz Nadeem, 11 Mohammed Shami

Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Mandeep Singh, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 Shane Watson, 5 Travis Head, 6 Kedar Jadhav (wk), 7 Pawan Negi, 8 S Aravind, 9 Samuel Badree, 10 Aniket Choudhary, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal

Stats that matter

Royal Challengers are the only team this season to score at a run rate of less than 8.00. Their average partnership of 18.50 runs per wicket is also the poorest among all teams. The second-worst batting average, 23.77, belongs to Daredevils.

Royal Challengers and Daredevils have been the two least successful teams in the Powerplay this season, having scored at a run rate of 6.90 and 8.23 respectively at the expense of 25 and 24 wickets in that phase. Royal Challengers have also been the slowest in the slog overs - they have scored at a run rate of 8.44 and lost 33 wickets, the joint-most by any team.

Daredevils' inconsistency this season reflects in their being the only team to score more than 195 runs three times while being bowled out under 70 on two occasions.

Daredevils have been particularly poor - with both bat and ball - between overs six and 15. They have lost 37 wickets, the second-most by any team, and have played out the most number of dot balls - 268 out of 694 deliveries - in the middle overs. During that period, their bowlers have taken only 24 wickets - only one more than bottom-placed Gujarat Lions.

Only seven half-centuries have been scored by the top four batsmen in either side, at an average of less than 25 - the lowest among all teams. No other team's top four averages less than 29.

Royal Challengers' batsmen have been dismissed 53 times for single-digit scores - 15 more than Daredevils. In comparison, Sunrisers Hyderabad have had the least number of such dismissals: only 19 single-digit scores this season.

Delhi Capitals Royal Challengers Bengaluru India RCB vs Daredevils IPL

Sreshth Shah is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo

PLAYER NAME		R	B
SV Samson	caught	0	2
KK Nair	caught	26	22
SS Iyer	caught	32	30
RR Pant	bowled	45	34
MN Samuels	bowled	0	1
CJ Anderson	stumped	3	9
PJ Cummins	caught	7	3
A Mishra	bowled	7	4
Mohammed Shami	stumped	21	9
S Nadeem	caught	2	6
Z Khan	not out	1	1
Extras	(b 4, lb 1, nb 1, w 1)
Total	151(10 wkts; 20 ovs)

PLAYER NAME	O	R	W	Econ
Avesh Khan	4	23	1	5.75
YS Chahal	3	24	0	8 (1 nb)
HV Patel	4	43	3	10.75
SR Watson	4	16	1	4
TM Head	3	30	2	10
P Negi	2	10	3	5

TEAM	M	W	L	PT	NRR
MI	14	10	4	20	0.784
RPS	14	9	5	18	0.176
SRH	14	8	5	17	0.599
KKR	14	8	6	16	0.641
KXIP	14	7	7	14	-0.009
DC	14	6	8	12	-0.512
GL	14	4	10	8	-0.412
RCB	14	3	10	7	-1.299

Daredevils, RCB look to end disappointing season on high

Match facts

Head to head

In the news

The likely XIs

Stats that matter

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Indian Premier League

WKT	RUNS	PLAYERS
1st	0	Karun Nair	Sanju Samson
2nd	41	Karun Nair	Shreyas Iyer
3rd	46	Shreyas Iyer	Rishabh Pant
4th	0	Marlon Samuels	Rishabh Pant
5th	18	Corey Anderson	Rishabh Pant
6th	8	Pat Cummins	Rishabh Pant
7th	6	Amit Mishra	Rishabh Pant
8th	16	Amit Mishra	Mohammed Shami
9th	15	Shahbaz Nadeem	Mohammed Shami
10th	1	Zaheer Khan	Shahbaz Nadeem