IPL 2025: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) vs Gujarat Titans (GT): Squads, Probable Playing 11, Impact Player, Fantasy Picks, Live Streaming & Telecast, Head-To-Head, Match Timings in IST, Match Prediction, Best Batter, Best Bowler, Tickets, Pitch Repo – Cricket.com

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) have made a perfect start to the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, having won both their matches so far. Gujarat Titans (GT), on the other hand, bounced back well in the second game to beat Mumbai Indians (MI) after losing their season opener against Punjab Kings (PBKS).
The match against GT will be RCB's first match of the season at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. Can they get off to a winning start?
RCB squad for IPL 2025
Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh, Abhinandan Singh, Romario Shepherd, Lungi Ngidi, Nuwan Thushara, Mohit Rathee, Swastik Chikara
GT squad for IPL 2025
Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Anuj Rawat, Mahipal Lomror, Arshad Khan, Jayant Yadav, Nishant Sindhu, Kulwant Khejroliya, Karim Janat, Gerald Coetzee, Manav Suthar, Kumar Kushagra, Gurnoor Brar
RCB Probable Playing 11
Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal
Impact Player: Suyash Sharma
GT Probable Playing 11
Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna
Impact player: Ishant Sharma
You can catch live streaming of RCB vs GT and every other IPL 2025 game on Star Sports Network (TV) and JioHotstar (Digital).
The RCB vs GT match will kick off on April 2 (Wednesday) at 7:30 PM IST. 
You can buy tickets for RCB vs GT in IPL 2025 on District by Zomato. Click here for match tickets.
Safe options: Rajat Patidar (RCB), Virat Kohli (RCB), Sai Sudharsan (GT), Sai Kishore (GT)
Risky Options: Liam Livingstone (RCB), Tim David (RCB), Prasidh Krishna (GT), Sherfane Rutherford (GT)
Played 5 | RCB 3 | GT 2
Check out the head-to-head here
RCB seem to have all their bases covered, but as far as GT are concerned, their batting looks a bit shaky. Moreover, they do not have too many world-class bowlers at their disposal to trouble the powerful RCB batters. RCB certainly start favourites.
Without a shadow of a doubt, Virat Kohli is going to be the key batter in this game. If he gets going, it would be tough to stop them. He has started off IPL 2025 well, having hit 90 in two innings.
Josh Hazlewood is the one to watch out for in this match. He has been excellent in the powerplay and could very well put his team in a commanding position in the first six over itself. He has picked up five wickets at an economy rate of 5.27 in the tournament so far.
Pacers had a massive say at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in IPL 2024, having picked up nearly 78% of the wickets. While they were slightly on the more expensive side (Econ 9.8), they picked up wickets far more regularly than the spinners, with an average of 28.7 and a strike rate of 17.4. For spinners who have an economy rate of 9.3, the corresponding numbers are 44 and 28.5, respectively.
While there are rain predictions from April 3 (Thursday), there's no rain expected on Wednesday. We should have a full game with no interruptions.
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