Will Rajat Patidar Play Against SRH: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain Rajat Patidar was not seen in the last match. The team played its last match on 17 May against Punjab Kings. In the match, Jitesh Sharma was seen captaining the team in place of Patidar. RCB has to play its last match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on 22 May. Now the question is whether Patidar will play in the last match? Here you will get the answer to this.

Let us tell you that Patidar played against Kolkata Knight Riders on 13th May. Patidar’s helmet was hit by a ball in the match. Allegedly due to this, Patidar did not come on the field for the match against Punjab. Now the team’s Director of Cricket Mo Bobat responded regarding his return.

Will Patidar play the last match?

Before the match, Mo Bobat while talking about Patidar said, “Patidar is fine to play now. We were being careful and did not want to take any risk. We thought that we should give him a little longer time for recovery. But he is here. He is practicing and is ready to play.

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Patidar’s performance so far in the season

Patidar has played 12 matches in the current season, batting in 11 innings and scoring 337 runs at an average of 33.70 and strike rate of 192.57. During this period, he has scored 3 half-centuries, in which the high score was 63 runs.

RCB has qualified for playoffs

Bengaluru has qualified for the playoffs. Actually, RCB became the first team to reach the playoffs in the season. The team is at the first position in the points table with 18 points. From here the team is yet to play the last match. By winning the final match the team can reach 20 points. Apart from Bengaluru, no other team will be able to reach 20 points.

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