RCB vs MI Playing 11 IPL 2023: Probable Line Up of Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians for Match 5

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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will host Mumbai Indians (MI) in their first match of the IPL 2023 campaign on Sunday (April 2) at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore. Two teams will be hoping to start with a win in the new season.

RCB captain Faf du Plessis and MI captain Rohit Sharma have the same aim in mind for different reasons - that is to win the IPL trophy. RCB have never won it and would dearly love to win one, while MI hope to break their last season blues out of mind with a positive start to the new season.

The IPL 2023 has gone to its traditional home and away format across the country, and this is the first time RCB will play in front of their home supporters in four years. Fans are already waiting 12 hours without food and water for tickets as it promises to be a thrilling encounter between these two familiar foes.

RCB vs MI IPL 2023 Match 5 Team News

RCB Team News vs MI Royal Challengers Bangalore have brought in Kiwi all-rounder Michael Bracewell in place of Will Jacks. They have a pretty decent squad with some global gladiators in the team. Kohli, Du Plessis and Maxwell will be their batting backbone, while the likes of Siraj, Hasaranga will spearhead their bowling attack.

RCB have their full squad available for the first match and they do have more or less a settled core from last season. Shahbaz Ahmed can be used as an all-rounder while players like Akash Deep, Anuj Rawat may be slotted in the Impact Players list.

MI Team News vs RCB Mumbai Indians will be rattled with the loss of Jasprit Bumrah. They replaced their paramount bowler with Sandeep Warrier, a much more underwhelming name on paper. They have an excellent batting unit comprised of Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan and overseas players like Cameron Green and Tim David.

Their bowling department is boosted with the arrival of Jofra Archer, who looks set to make debut for his new IPL team. Youngsters like Tilak Varma, Tristan Stubbs are going to play certain part in the course of the tournament, as Nehal Wadhera, Piyush Chawla can be their impact options.

RCB vs MI IPL 2023 Match 4 Probable Lineup - RCB vs MI Playing 11

RCB playing 11 vs MI: Faf du Plessis (C), Virat Kohli, Suyash Prabhudessai, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Michael Bracewell, Dinesh Karthik, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Reece Topley

MI playing 11 vs RCB: Rohit Sharma (C), Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Cameron Green, Ramandeep Singh, Hrithik Shokeen, Jofra Archer, Kumar Kartikeya, Jason Behrendorff

RCB vs MI Impact Players

Here are the players who can come on as an Impact Player during the course of the match for the two teams. Given the high probability of both team naming 4 overseas players in the starting lineup, you can expect all of the Impact Players list will consist of Indian names only.

RCB Impact Players: Manoj Bhandage, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Karn Sharma, Himanshu Sharma - players among these names can be on the Impact Players list for RCB.

MI Impact Players: Mumbai Indians can name the likes of Nehal Wadhera, Piyush Chawla, Shams Mulani, Raghav Goyal as their Impact Player.