BENGALURU: With the scramble for the main four positions having begun, Royal Challengers Bangalore will want to be in the cutting edge when they have the failing Kings XI Punjab at the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Wednesday.

With nine focuses after four wins, four thrashings and one match deserted because of downpour, RCB are at the junction and can’t bear to blunder in their staying five matches. They are in the top 50% of the focuses table and need to merge on that.

After their starting battles, RCB have indicated enhanced exhibitions yet have been liable of wasting open doors. Against CSK at the Chidambaram Stadium on Monday, RCB were on course for a triumph with Virat Kohli and Dinesh Karthik securing the pursuit. In any case, they were out of the challenge when Dwayne Bravo ran out Kohli and endured a 24-run rout.

In their past home match, RCB figured out how to post a season-high aggregate of 200 against Rajasthan, yet rain played spoilsport as the groups settled for a point each. Kohli’s men did well against KKR in another downpour shortened standoff.

It was their toothless knocking down some pins in the introductory period of the competition that cost them coordinates. In any case, the entry of pacer Mitchell Starc and minor rearranging in the knocking down some pins set-up started to show results. Their batting too has come great with adolescents like Mandeep Singh and Sarfaraz Khan venturing up and making noteworthy commitments.

Against Chennai, RCB acquired Nick Maddinson to open set up of Gayle. With the Australian neglecting to have an effect, RCB would be quick to bring back the enormous hitting Jamaican to issue them a decent begin.

The chances are agreeable to Bangalore as they come back to commonplace domain for their 6th and penultimate home diversion against a battling outfit. Regardless of the possibility that Punjab don’t toss a spanner in their works, downpour – gauge for Wednesday evening – could.

In spite of the fact that Punjab’s trusts of a playoff billet seem dreary, moping as they are at the base of the table with four focuses after seven misfortunes, the 2014 finalists brag a fearsome line-up equipped for putting it over the hosts.

Notwithstanding, nothing appears to have gone ideal for Punjab this season. Their star batsmen Virender Sehwag, Shaun Marsh and Glenn Maxwell have not clicked while the greatest stress is the poor execution of their pace lead Mitchell Johnson.