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[caption id="attachment_43220" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Rising Pune Supergiant to face RCB in an IPL encounter on Saturday. Image Source: twitter[/caption] Internet Desk: It will be a do or die match for Virat Kohli led Royal Challengers Bangalore when they lock horns with inconsistent Rising Pune Supergiant in a crucial Indian Premier League encounter on Saturday. The visitors have lost six out of their nine matches and are holding the seventh position of the cash-rich league. RCB still have some hopes left in IPL season 10, if they can win their remaining five matches. But they have to depend on others results too. Steve Smith’s Rising Pune Supergiant are in a bit better position as they have eight points in their kitty from eight matches. But the RPS are a bit inconsistent in this season. On some days they are playing some fabulous cricket and on the next game they look very ordinary. Skipper Steve Smith will like to address that issue when they face RCB, who are already down in the dumps after a string of defeats. However T20 is a format where things change so quickly, RCB with their world-class batting line-up cannot be ruled out completely. Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers can destroy any bowling attack on a given day and RPS save Ben Stokes (6 wickets) and Imran Tahir (10 wickets), don't have much to write home about. The Indian pacers like Jaydev Unadkat and Shardul Thakur has down well in patches. But the Pune outfit will be facing RCB when their confidence has hit nadir. The team is not doing well and perhaps it is the best time for RPS bowlers to put Kohli and Company into some sort of trouble. In the batting department, the find of the season for Pune has been local boy Rahul Tripathi, who has scored 216 runs in six games but more importantly at an impressive strike-rate of 154.28 which includes 24 boundaries and eight sixes. Only Smith with 275 runs (26 boundaries and seven sixes) has scored more than him. Former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has mustered only 152 runs at a strike-rate of 120 plus with his only match-winning knock coming against Sunrisers Hyderabad. A lot will again depend on the kind of platform that Tripathi provides at the start of the innings. India international Ajinkya Rahane's form has also been a concern as he has been able to score only a single 50 batting at the top of the order in all the matches. There will also be some pressure on Stokes to prove his whopping price tag of Rs 14.5 crore. He has bowled some really good overs including superb death bowling against the Mumbai Indians which earned him Man of the Match award. But he has been a bit off-colour when it comes to batting having scored only 127 runs in eight games. Teams (from): Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (captain), AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Vishnu Vinod, Sreenath Arvind, Kedar Jadhav (wk), Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Iqbal Abdulla, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tymal Mills, Aniket Chaudhary, Praveen Dubey, Billy Stanlake. Rising Pune Supergiant: Steve Smith (capt), Ajinkya Rahane, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (WK), Ashok Dinda, Faf du Plessis, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Sharma, Baba Aparajith, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Deepak Chahar, Rahul Chahar, Dan Christian, Lockie Ferguson, Imran Tahir, Jaskaran Singh, Usman Khawaja, Saurabh Kumar, Ben Stokes, Washington Sundar, Milind Tandon, Manoj Tiwary, Adam Zampa, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishwar Pandey, Rahul Tripathi, Shardul Thakur.