Toss Rajasthan Royals opt to bowl v Royal Challengers Bangalore
Rajasthan Royals captain Ajinkya Rahane chose to field first against Royal Challenger Bangalore in Jaipur. His opposite number Virat Kohli, captaining for the 100th time in the IPL, said that they would have wanted to bat first, but now have to focus on defending a total.
The Royals have made two changes, as Sanju Samson is out due to injury and Jaydev Unadkat is also benched. Stuart Binny and Varun Aaron will replace the duo.
Royal Challengers have handed a debut to wicketkeeper-batsman Akshdeep Nath. They have also brought in Navdeep Saini and Marcus Stoinis, who arrived from the UAE where he was playing for Australia against Pakistan.
Shivam Dube, Prayas Ray Barman and Colin de Grandhomme have been dropped.
Both sides have lost three games till this stage of the IPL, making their task of reaching the playoffs stiff even though it is quite an early stage.
Rajasthan Royals: 1 Ajinkya Rahane (capt) 2 Jos Buttler (wk), 3 Steven Smith, 4 Rahul Tripathi, 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Stuart Binny, 7 K Gowtham, 8 Jofra Archer, 9 Shreyas Gopal, 10 Varun Aaron, 11 Dhawal Kulkarni
Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Parthiv Patel (wk), 2 Shimron Hetmyer, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Moeen Ali, 6 Akshdeep Nath, 7 Marcus Stoinis, 8 Navdeep Saini, 9 Umesh Yadav, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
Source: ESPN Crickinfo